Friendship Quote by Jane Austen

“Now—after years of knowing what real problems were, after living with a man who was cautiously loving but no longer fawningly committed, a man…

— Allison Winn Scotch

“She never knew that Mr. Laurence opened his study door to hear the old-fashioned airs he liked. She never saw Laurie mount guard in…

— Louisa May Alcott

“Because she had always been happy, she wanted everyone about her to be happy or, at least, pleased with themselves. To this end, she…

— Margaret Mitchell

“I could not unlove him, because I felt sure he would soon marry this very lady-because I read daily in her a proud security…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Sometimes Matilda longed for a friend, someone like the kind, courageous people in her books.”

— Roald Dahl

“there was ever in Mr. Rochester (so at least I thought) such a wealth of the power of communicating happiness, that to taste but…

— Charlotte Brontë

“He could not deny that the beauty, the youth, the gracefulness, of the countess had made some impression on him: but his nature was…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“It was two people who remained together, day after day, bound not by sex or physical attraction or money or children or property, but…

— Hanya Yanagihara

“what young people did not know. They did not know that lumpy, aged, and wrinkled bodies were as needy as their own young, firm…

— Elizabeth Strout

“He seemed happy. She thought that she seldom concerned herself about Laurence’s being happy. She wanted him to be in a good mood, so…

— Alice Munro

“But he was thankful for the offer and dimly he was beginning to formulate in his mind the feeling that the world is made…

— Gene Stratton-Porter

“and yet nobody of course was more dependent upon others (he buttoned his waistcoat); it had been his undoing. He could not keep out…

— Virginia Woolf