Only friends will tell you ...

Only friends will tell you the truths you need to hear to make your life bearable.
 Francine du Plessix Gray

Quotes from the same author

The irreversibility of time. That's the hardest thing to accept at our age, that's the most violent aspect of death.
 Francine du Plessix Gray
how the French can talk. About a stew, about a fly on the parapet, about death, about anything.
 Francine du Plessix Gray
Oh, save me God, but not quite yet.
 Francine du Plessix Gray