"Friendship is not to be sought for its wages, but because its revenue consists entirely in the love which it implies."

-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

#Real Quotes #Real Friends Quotes #Wages Quotes

“Talk about the joys of the unexpected, can they compare with the joys of the expected, of finding everything delightfully and completely what you knew it was going to be?”

Source : Elizabeth Bibesco (1951). “Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms”
“A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.”
“My will is not a place, but a condition. Do not ask Me where and when, but ask Me how.”

Source : Frances J. Roberts (2009). “Come Away My Beloved Updated”, p.14, Barbour Publishing
“It just seems that you were talking positively about McDonald's, that they are... attempting this healthy lifestyle, and yet when we're talking right now... it seems that you're saying they need to make more responsibility.”
“When I decide to write a story, I don't think too much about what I want it to be, I just let things come naturally and this is how it turns out. It's just how my subconscious works.”
“As a conscientious objector I did my community service in 1971 in a psychiatric hospital and a friend there, who also was a guitar player, invited me one day to join him recording film music with a band named Kraftwerk which I didn't know at the time. I came along and jammed at this session together with Ralf HÃ¼tter and a drummer (I believe his name was Charly WeiÃŸ). Florian Schneider and Klaus Dinger were present as listeners and everybody liked the spontaneous music we did together.”
“Impulsively, she leaned across the truck and kissed him on the cheek. He glanced over in surprise when she pulled away, but pleasure glowed in his eyes. "What was that for?" "Just seemed like the thing to do," she said. "Well, feel free to do it more often," he encouraged. "I assure you I won't mind.”

Source : Maya Banks (2012). “Shades of Gray: A KGI Novel”, p.116, Penguin
“I was trying to cheat death. I was only trying to surmount for a little while the darkness that all my life I surely knew was going to come rolling in on me some day and obliterate me. I was only to stay alive a little brief while longer, after I was already gone.”

Source : Cornell Woolrich, Francis M. Nevins (2005). “Night and Fear: A Centenary Collection of Stories”, p.22, Carroll & Graf

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