I run after her, not really giving chase. I’m running because I can, because I must. Because I want to see how far I can go before I have to stop. ― Libba Bray

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Friendship is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself. ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

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Happy is the house that shelters a friend. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. ― Nelson Mandela

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The only way to have a friend is to be one. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. ― Henry David Thoreau

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

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You know, people ask me. They say 'Dan, three years later do you really want to be drawing cat whiskers on your face?' but they don't understand. The cat whiskers, they come from within. ― Dan Howell

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The first writer that I think of immediately that I studied with at Michigan is Peter Ho Davies. He was really important to me, tackling that first novel. Just writing it. - Jesmyn Ward

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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

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