Margaret Atwood Quotes

The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Friendship needs both confidences and confidence in the other's outstretched hand.

In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both.

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

I believe in singularity in relationships because you've got to have trust on both sides.

I want someone who is my partner in life. Who supports me, and I support her. I can share all my experiences in life with her, and she can share hers back with me. Not only do we love each other, but we accept, embrace, nurture, and care for each other.

Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That's a nice person. There's friendship when you do for each other. It's like marriage - it's two-sided.

Can you persuade people to take your side when you are not sure in the end whether you'll be there to take theirs?

The audience and I are friends. They allowed me to grow up with them. I've let them down several times. They've let me down several times. But we're all family.

I've not been in a live-in relationship. But I've been exposed to various kinds of equations that can exist between people. When I came from Bangalore, it was black and white. Over the years, I've realised that there's more to what we see on a day-to-day basis. There are all kinds of relationships, all kinds of equations.

Trust implies that both parties participate in the relationship with both 'gives' and 'gets.'

We've got a lot of friends. We take care of them because they take care of us.

Support me and I will fight for you.

Friendship is the most pleasant of all things, and nothing more glads the heart of man.

But risk is just part of relationships. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't.

Got just enough room to be a friend of yours. Oh I hope you got room to be a friend of mine.

Friendship is one of the greatest gifts a human being can receive. It is a bond beyond common goals, common interests, or common histories. It is a bond stronger than sexual union can create, deeper than a shared fate can solidify, and even more intimate than the bonds of marriage or community. Friendship is being with the other in joy and sorrow, even when we cannot increase the joy or decrease the sorrow. It is a unity of souls that gives nobility and sincerity to love. Friendship makes all of life shine brightly.

Friendship's full of dregs.

In the end it all came down to companionship, to friendship, to sacrifice, to compromise.

Friendship buys friendship.

That's the thing about friendship, it's a lot rarer than love, because there is nothing in it for any body.

And whether or not we had now paid our dues, he was my blessing, and I was his.

That was the very heart of friendship...your willingness to help each other in a jam, to take a friend's problems as your very own.