"Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy." ― Anita Brookner Topic(s): Friendship More From Anita Brookner "The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule." "Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society." "Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything." More In Friendship "Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world."― John Evelyn "Friendship is one mind in two bodies."― Mencius "Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!"― William Hazlitt