Source identified
Read & copy the quotation
“the growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.”
- Date
- 1896
- Local voice
- Fictional narrator · First-person narrator
Meaning of “the growth of true friendship may be a…”
The narrator distinguishes immediate attraction from friendship that deepens slowly through sustained familiarity, experience and shared life.
Where does it come from?
The Country of the Pointed Firs, opening chapter, represented by Project Gutenberg #367. This is first-person literary narration about the narrator’s return to Dunnet Landing; the lower-case opening is preserved because the quotation is a clause excerpted from a longer sentence.
Why the local voice matters
The Country of the Pointed Firs. The narrator contrasts sudden attraction with friendship that develops over time; the clause remains literary narration.