Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy. – Anita Brookner
Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything. – Anita Brookner

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy. – Anita Brookner
Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything. – Anita Brookner
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule. – Anita Brookner
Existentialism is about being a saint without God being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society. – Anita Brookner
When I was growing up, my mother was always a friend to my siblings and me (in addition to being all the other things a mom is), and I was always grateful for that because I knew she was someone I could talk to and joke with, and argue with and that nothing would ever harm that friendship. – Marlo Thomas