My Friend, Shadow!

 

“False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.”  ~ Christian Nestell Bovee

Phyllis “I love my friend, Shadow. She looks a lot like me, except darker, with no feathers, or eyes, or beak, or feet”

 

“In talking, shyness and timidity distort the very meaning of my words. I don't pretend to know anybody well. People are like shadows to me and I am like a shadow.” ~ Gwen John

Phyllis “Isn’t Shadow beautiful…….just like me?”

“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.”
~ Helen Keller

Phyllis “Shadow likes to strike a pose, just like I do”

 

Phyllis “We like to stay close, like birds of a feather, we flock together”

 

Phyllis “Shadow and I love to fluff and preen so we can remain the beautiful divas that we are”

“It's very easy to say that something is a shadow of itself, and it may be true in some senses.”  ~ Sydney Schanberg

Phyllis “Shadow doesn’t say much, but when she’s around she stays by my side”

 

Phyllis “Speaking of Shadow being around, sometimes she is……and sometimes she isn’t. I’m not sure why.”

“I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.”          ~ Plutarch

Phyllis “Hey there Matilda, you’re sitting on my friend, Shadow! Please go bask in the sun somewhere else”

 

“One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.”   ~ Elizabeth Bowen

Phyllis “Hey Bubby! Didn’t you hear me??! Move it, lady!”

Phyllis “Just me and my friend Shadow”

 

 

Phyllis “What did you say, Shadow?! Really? Where? Uh Oh!”

“Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.”     ~ Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Phyllis “Back off Godzilla Chicken! This space is reserved for me and my Shadow!”

 

“I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.”     ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

 

Phyllis “I love my friend Shadow. I wish she would stay with me night and day, and never ever fade away”

“Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.” ~ Jean de La Fontaine