He tells me that you would have actually accomplished your purpose, had not our brethren with affectionate care held you back. I thank you all the same and regard it as a kindness shown. For in the case of friends one must accept the will for the deed. Enemies often give us the latter, but only sincere attachment can bring us the former.

Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family.

The most comforting feeling ever is knowing that someone truly likes your entire existence. I feel that way right now. Thank you.

Fish, he said softly, aloud, I'll stay with you until I am dead.

Thou wilt go now, rabbit. But I go with thee. As long as there is one of us there is both of us.

Love is a dunghill, and I'm the cock that gets on it to crow.

Like all men with a faculty that surpasses human requirements, his father was very nervous. Then, too, he was sentimental, and, like most sentimental people, he was both cruel and abused. Also, he had much bad luck, and it was not all of it his own. He had died in a trap that he had helped only a little to set, and they had all betrayed him in their various ways before he died. All sentimental people are betrayed so many times. Nick could not write about him yet, although he would, later

He felt the long light body, warm against him, comforting against him, abolishing loneliness against him, magically, by a simple touching of flanks, of shoulders and of feet, making an alliance against death with him.

I learned one thing." "What?" "Never to go on trips with anyone you do not love.

How are you? You old love-house of always.

But we liked Miss Stein and her friend, although the friend was frightening, and the paintings and the cakes and the eau-devie were truly wonderful. They seemed to like us too and treated us as though we were very good, well-mannered and promising children and I felt that they forgave us for being in love and being married—time would fix that—and when my wife invited them to tea, they accepted.

He liked the works of his friends, which is beautiful as loyalty but can be disastrous as judgment.