"Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy." ― Anita Brookner Topic(s): Friendship More From Anita Brookner "Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything." "The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule." "Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has." More In Friendship "One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human."― George Santayana "Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable."― Bruce Lee "Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded."― Gertrude Stein