Our lifetime friendships can be more steadfast and trustworthy than any marriage, and considerably more treasurable. Those few persons whom I gained as friends before the age of twenty-five, for example. Nothing they would ever say or do would diminish my love and esteem for them. — Francine du Plessix Gray, author of The Queen’s Lover, from The Paris Review “Art of Fiction No.96” (via thepenguinpress)
