"Friendship has splendors that love knows not. It grows stronger when crossed, whereas obstacles kill love. Friendship resists time, which wearies and severs couples. It has heights unknown to love."

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Source : Mariama Bâ (1989). “So Long a Letter”, p.54, Heinemann

Mariama BÃ¢

#Couple Quotes #Stronger Quotes #Height Quotes

“For the first time, I had been struck by the excitement of the traveler who looks history in her subtle face.”

Source : "The Historian". Book by Elizabeth Kostova, June, 2005.
“Most of the time I write my best songs just from feeling a strong emotion, so whether I'm just really angry or really sad or really happy, I immediately sit down at a piano and I begin writing a song.”
“We should think seriously before we slam doors, before we burn bridges, before we saw off the limb on which we find ourselves sitting.”
“I dont think theres a back lot here in Hollywood anymore that has those streets, like a French Quarter.”
“I donâ€™t like to feel that I owe anything. I like to feel that I pay my own way, no free lunch.”
“Have you ever noticed that when your mind is awakened or drawn to someone new, that person's name suddenly pops up everywhere you go? My friend Sophie calls it coincidence, and Mr. Simpless, my parson friend, calls it Grace. He thinks that if one cares deeply about someone or something new one throws a kind of energy out into the world, and "fruitfulness" is drawn in.”
“Christ took our hell so that we might take His heaven.”
“You are talking to a man who can only play a plastic keyboard. Give me anything weighted and I've had it. I haven't got the strength in my fingers to push them down. So I don't get a lot of expression on the keyboard.”

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