Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThe companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.
About This Quote
The companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain. In adolescence, we want to be part of a group. We want to be accepted by the whole world. We don’t want others to know that we are different from others or not as good as them.
We want to go along with the crowd and be accepted as a “normal” teenager. But, as we grow older, we realize that we can have a relationship with a friend who is different from us and not have to feel weird about it.
Source: Frankenstein
Some Similar Quotes
- It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
- There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.
- If I had a flower for every time I thought of you... I could walk through my garden forever.
- You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.
- Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grassthe world is too full to talk about.
More Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.
- No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
- There was a considerable difference between the ages of my parents, but this circumstance seemed to unite them only closer in bonds of devoted affection.
- Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries.
- One as deformed and horrible as myself, could not deny herself to me. My companion must be of the same species, and have the same defects... with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being...