Martyna

“When I had almost reached him he turned and smiled at me. Then, with a strangely gauche and still hesitant movement, he shook my trembling hand. "Hello, Hans", he said, and suddenly I realised to my joy and relief and amazement that he was as shy and as much in need of a friend as I.”
― Fred Uhlman, Reunion

“How would he in all his glory ever be able to understand my shyness, my suspicious pride and my fear of being hurt?”
― Fred Uhlman, Reunion

“Until his arrival I had been without a friend. There wasn't one boy in my class who I believed could live up to my romantic ideal of friendship, not one whom I really admired, for whom I would have been willing to die and who could have understood my demand for complete trust, loyalty and self-sacrifice.”
― Fred Uhlman, Reunion

“It's the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can't cope with it.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams