Acquaintance Quote by Virginia Woolf

And so they parted, she to the east, and he to the west. The test they had agreed upon, however, was utterly unnecessary. They…

— Haruki Murakami

Odd, she thought, how intensely you knew a person, or thought you did, when you were in love - soaked, drenched in love -…

— Anita Shreve

They were still in the happier stage of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Now, when their glances met, they understood one another. The power that lay within both their souls had met, and, as it were, clasped…

— Anonymous

“THEY pass’d the Time of their Journey in as much Happiness as the most luxurious Gratification of wild Desires could make them; and when…

— Eliza Haywood

It seemed as if some subtle current of recognition had passed between them... not as if they had met before... but as if they…

— Lisa Kleypas

They all settled into being the kind of friends when they heard from each other.... or when they occasionally got together. And when they…

— John Irving

Words have divided man from woman, one from another, this from that, until only sages know how to put things together. Without words, without…

— Laozi

They enveloped each other within the folds of their thoughts, holding each other with an intimacy no physical embrace could replicate, allowing their identities…

— Christopher Paolini

There could have never been two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they…

— Jane Austen

They were still in the happier stages of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“For the special thrilling quality of their friendship was in their complete surrender. Like two open cities in the midst of some vast plain…

— Katherine Mansfield