Acquisition Quote by Kate Morton

In making friends, she was wary of people who foster dependency and feed on it. She had been involved with a few--the blind attract…

— Thomas Harris

She was not often invited to join in the conversation of the others, nor did she desire it. Her own thoughts and reflections were…

— Jane Austen

“Well, she’d never had a female friend—never really had any friends—and somehow, the thought of returning to Rifthold without Ansel was a tad unbearable.”

— Sarah J. Maas

“But in practice, neither believed in friendship or loyalty. They believed in passion, they believed in a hybrid form of social or public happiness…

— Roberto Bolaño

“That was our friendship: equal parts irritation and cooperation.”

— Ransom Riggs

Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

She was actively frightened of imparting confidences, because she feared that they might betray the world of oddness that lived inside her

— Anonymous

Like all strong people, she suffered always a measure of loneliness; she was a marginal outsider, a secret infidel of a certain sort.

— Anne Rice

Poor soul, she always knew everything about her neighbors, but she never was very well acquainted with herself.

— Anonymous

“... she suspected Oliver only wanted some token acknowledgment that despite her moving on, their exchange had not been completely superficial. She found even…

— Toby Barlow

“She had in truth no abstract propensity to malice: she did not dislike Lily because the latter was brilliant and predominant, but because she…

— Edith Wharton

She became so important to them that they wondered how they had ever managed without her in the past. And the longer she stayed…

— Michael Ende