"Friendship is a strange animal. It only thrives in voluntary enjoyment of each other's company, in the pleasure of nonobligatory connection. I repeat: You owe me nothing."

--

Source : FaceBook post by Kate Christensen from Apr 16, 2013

Kate Christensen

#Animal Quotes #Connections Quotes #Strange Quotes

“I decided to create a sports club during the Soviet times. It was my dream.”
“I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets. It has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful. Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and benumbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.”
“Mindy Kaling gets her own line in the acknowledgments, as previously negotiated by her representatives. Thanks, Mindy. I love you and you're the best.”
“Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.”
“I'm an angel compared to some of my friends.”
“A government is free in proportion to the rights it guarantees to the minority.”
“It broke my heart when I learned the moon had been passing the sunâ€™s light off as its own.”
“our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home.”

You may also like:

Arthur Nersesian
Novelist
Arthur Phillips
Novelist
Cornelius Eady
Writer
Deborah Eisenberg
Short story writer
J. Courtney Sullivan
Novelist
Jami Attenberg
Author
Julie Otsuka
Author
Meg Wolitzer
Writer
James Lasdun
Writer