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  1. Jon Krakauer _ Into the Wild

    A lot of us are like that-I'm like that, Ed Abbey was like that, and it sounds like this McCandless kid was like that: We like companionship, see, but we can't stand to be around people for very long. So we go get ourselves lost, come back for a while, then get the hell out again.
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  2. Nicholas Sparks _ The Lucky One

    She was struck by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people...
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  3. Elizabeth Gilbert _ Committed: A Skeptic Makes

    The act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy of companionship.
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  4. Virginia Woolf _ The Waves

    I want someone to sit beside after the day's pursuit and all its anguish, after its listening, and its waitings, and its suspicions. After quarrelling and reconciliation I need privacy - to be alone with you, to set this hubbub in order. For I am as neat as a cat in my habits.
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  5. Mercedes Lackey _ One Good Knight

    My eyes hurt," she said plaintively, as he surveyed the stacks of books they hadn't read yet."Then by all means, we will save your eyes for a bit," Peri said, with a chuckle that rumbled inside his chest. He put his head down along his folded forelegs and looked up at her with an amused expression."What are you thinking about?" he asked."That I've never known anyone it was easier to be- friends with," she said, hesitating a moment over the "friend" part. Because it felt as if their relationship was unfolding into something a great deal warmer than mere friendship."It's odd, isn't it?" he responded. "Except for my brother, I've never been as comfortable around any dragon as I am around you. I don't quite know how to fathom it.""Then let's not," she said instantly, not wanting to spoil anything. "All right?"He laughed. "One can certainly analyze things until they are no longer enjoyable. I bow to your wisdom. I am just happy to enjoy your company."She felt warm and tingly in a pleasant sort of way as he looked down at her with those glowing dark-emerald eyes. Feeling greatly daring, she reached out and scratched the soft skin under his chin.He sighed. "Oh, glory. That feels lovely. Don't stop doing that for the next thirty years or so. Take more time if you need it."She laughed, but kept scratching."I wish there was something I could do for you that felt as good," he said, in a voice rich with content."You already are," she said. "You're very comfortable to sit on."He laughed again, this time with a note of self-mockery. "I shall be sure to add that to my list of virtues. 'Makes a comfortable chair.' I am sure the Great Dragon at the gates of Paradise will find that ample reason to let me in straightaway. And the rest of my clan will surely inscribe it on my memorial wall."She blinked. "Dragons believe in Paradise?" she said, surprised."Of course they do, silly goose," Peri replied, with another affectionate brush on his nose on her shoulder.
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  6. R.A. Salvatore _ Exile

    Joy multiplies when it is shared among friends, but grief diminishes with every division. That is life.
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  7. Ursula K. Le Guin _ A Wizard of Earthsea

    I was with you at the beginning of your journey. It is right that I should follow you to its end.
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  8. Jodi Picoult _ Vanishing Acts

    If his voice hasn't been the melody of my life, it's been the bass line, so subtle you don't notice it until it's missing.
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  9. Beryl Markham _ West with the Night

    To an eagle or to an owl or to a rabbit, man must seem a masterful and yet a forlorn animal; he has but two friends. In his almost universal unpopularity he points out, with pride, that these two are the dog and the horse. He believes, with an innocence peculiar to himself, that they are equally proud of this alleged confraternity. He says, 'Look at my two noble friends -- they are dumb, but they are loyal.' I have for years suspected that they are only tolerant.
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  10. Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez _ Love in the Time of Cholera

    The Widow Nazaret never missed her occasional appointments with Florentino Ariza, not even during her busiest times, and it was always without pretensions of loving or being loved, although always in the hope of finding something that resembled love, but without the problems of love.
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  11. Emily Brontë _ The Complete Poems

    Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?
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  12. John Steinbeck _ Travels with Charley: In

    A number of years ago I had some experience with being alone. For two succeeding years I was alone each winter for eight months at a stretch in the Sierra Nevada mountains on Lake Tahoe. I was the caretaker on a summer estate during the winter months when it was snowed in. And I made some observations then. As time went on I found that my reactions thickened. Ordinarily I am a whistler. I stopped whistling. I stopped conversing with my dogs, and I believe that the subtleties of feeling began to disappear until finally I was on a pleasure-pain basis. Then it occurred to me that the delicate shades of feeling, of reaction, are the result of communication, and without such communication they tend to disappear. A man with nothing to say has no words. Can its reverse be true- a man who has no one to say anything to has no words as he has no need for words? ... Only through imitation do we develop toward originality.
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