Tamora Pierce Quotes

I wasn't going to leave my men, and they were going to protect me.

Friendship, as has been said, consists in a full commitment of the will to another person with a view to that person's good.

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

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.

I have a few friends that I think would go to bat for me no matter what. Flea is definitely one of them. Guy Oseary is one of them.

Best said possibly the only thing that would have changed my attitude: 'What will happen to me?' 'Your friend MacLeod will look after you,' I said. Best replied, 'If you get out, I get out.' There was silence for some moments. I thought of all the joy of the early experiments which we had known together. Here was loyalty.

I'm always going to be passionate about the guys we have in the locker room because they've always been OK with me - they've always done right by me - so I have no problem playing with them, going out there and sweating, bleeding, and winning with them.

There's a time when people give their words to each other it has to mean something. I'm a street cat. I've belonged in gangs and when you had a partner, you went down with your partner whether you won the fight or lost it. You went down together.

Im not letting my best freind die. been there done that. i got that freakin tshirt

Within Easy Company they had made the best friends they had ever had, or would ever have. They were prepared to die for each other; more important, they were prepared to kill for each other.

I saw Herschel and he saw me and we stood next to each other because that is what friends do in the presence of evil or love.

From the beginning, Tegan, you were more brother to me than any kin by blood. You still are.” Tegan felt likewise, in spite of all they’d been through. Maybe because of it. “I’ll always have your back, Lucan. You can count on it.

I knew wherever I was that you thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you would come-if alive.

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.

Sisterhood means if you happen to be in Burma and I happen to be in San Diego and I'm married to someone who is very jealous and you're married to somebody who is very possessive, if you call me in the middle of the night, I have to come.

Actually, I think friendship and love are exactly the same thing.

Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth.

...a good friend stands in harm's way for you the second you ask--but a great friend does it without being asked at all.

When you love someone unconditionally, you go to war for them, and they do that for each other. They know they can call each other when they need each other. In this day and age, everyone needs a friend like in Hap and Leonard.

Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of Love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving.

Of the things men give each other the greatest is loyalty.

I think of friendship in terms of love.

You have to believe in marriage and you have to believe in a relationship between two people. If you really think in your life that you have found the right person, you have to stick to it, even though there are ups and downs. If you really believe in your union, you have to nourish it and work for it, then you can really spend your life together forever.

True friendship must be akin to romance, I think. only without all the anguish and anxiety.