“How do we fall in love? ... How different it is with friendship. No one picks a friend for us. We come together by choice. We are not tied together through ceremony or the responsibility to create a son. We tie ourselves together through moment. The spark when we first meet. Laughter and tears shared. Secrets packed away to be treasured, hoarded, and protected. The wonder that someone can be so different from you and yet still understand your heart in a way no one else ever will.”
― The Island of Sea Women
― The Island of Sea Women
“Friendships between women, as any woman will tell you, are built of a thousand small kindnesses... swapped back and forth and over again.”
― Becoming
― Becoming
“It allows you to be yourself, good and bad. And it's a two-way street: you give and take equally.”
― A Work in Progress
― A Work in Progress
“Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.”
― The Brontë Sisters - The Complete Novels + Extras
― The Brontë Sisters - The Complete Novels + Extras
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