hi, if possible, could you pls share your favourite platonic love quotes 💛
• “I don't know what to do with it. / With what? / With all the love I have for her. I don't know where to put it now. / I'll take it.”
— Phoebe Waller-Bridge, in Fleabag
• “When we landed, and the pilot put the brakes on hard, my arm reflexively went across the seat, holding the li’l guy in place, the way my dad’s arm would when he had to brake hard in that car without seatbelts to speak of, in one of my very favorite gestures in the encyclopedia of human gestures.”
— Ross Gay, The Book of Delights
• Ada Limón, from “The Great Blue Heron of Dunbar Road”
• ““I know my life's meaningful because” — and here he stopped, and looked shy, and was silent for a moment before he continued — “because I'm a good friend. I love my friends, and I care about them, and I think I make them happy.””
“The only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad—or good—it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well.”
“He cries for the shame and joy of finally getting to be a child, with all of a child's whims and wants and insecurities, for the privilege of behaving badly and being forgiven, for the luxury of tendernesses, of fondnesses, of being served a meal and being made to eat it, for the ability, at last, at last, of believing a parent's reassurances, of believing that to someone he is special despite all his mistakes and hatefulness, because of all his mistakes and hatefulness.”
“And so I try to be kind to everything I see, and in everything I see, I see him.”
— Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
• Wendy Cope, “The Orange”
• “One of the primary ways we connect with each other is by eating together. Some of the connection happens simply by being in the same place at the same time and sharing the same food, but we also connect through specific actions, such as serving food to one another or making toasts: ‘May I offer you some potatoes?’ ‘Here’s to your health and happiness.’ Much of our fundamental well-being comes from the basic reassurance that there is a place for us at the table. We belong here. Here we are served and we serve others. Here we give and receive sustenance.”
• “I was thinking today of my greatest happiness, a walk along a cliff by the sea, and you at the end of it.”
— Virginia Woolf, in a letter to her sister Vanessa Bell
• Meredith Martinez, “When I Say Love”
• “Tu n'es encore pour moi qu'un petit garçon tout semblable à cent mille petits garçons. Et je n'ai pas besoin de toi. Et tu n'as pas besoin de moi non plus. Je ne suis pour toi qu'un renard semblable à cent mille renards. Mais, si tu m'apprivoises, nous aurons besoin l'un de l'autre. Tu seras pour moi unique au monde. Je serai pour toi unique au monde...”
“Si tu m'apprivoises, ma vie sera comme ensoleillée. Je connaîtrai un bruit de pas qui sera différent de tous les autres. Les autres pas me font rentrer sous terre. Le tien m'appellera hors du terrier, comme une musique. Et puis regarde ! Tu vois, là-bas, les champs de blé ? Je ne mange pas de pain. Le blé pour moi est inutile. Les champs de blé ne me rappellent rien. Et ça, c'est triste ! Mais tu as des cheveux couleur d'or. Alors ce sera merveilleux quand tu m'auras apprivoisé ! Le blé, qui est doré, me fera souvenir de toi. Et j'aimerai le bruit du vent dans le blé...”
“Ainsi le petit prince apprivoisa le renard. Et quand l'heure du départ fut proche: - Ah! dit le renard... Je pleurerai. - C'est ta faute, dit le petit prince, je ne te souhaitais point de mal, mais tu as voulu que je t'apprivoise... - Bien sûr, dit le renard. - Mais tu vas pleurer ! dit le petit prince. - Bien sûr, dit le renard. - Alors tu n'y gagnes rien ! - J'y gagne, dit le renard, à cause de la couleur du blé.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Le Petit Prince
