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We don’t smile, but we something. We something. It hurts, the way a deep connection to someone who isn’t yours sometimes does.
— Corey Ann Haydu, The Careful Undressing of Love
A true friend knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you forget the words
— Unknown
There's something about you, Your eyes speak a story in a language only known to my soul. The kind of communication we as humans dream about, the one that reaches into the core of who you are and loves you for it. It doesn't appear often or by accident & when it happens you just know " There's something about you ".
— Nikki Rowe
Friendship! That bond shared, not with the one you see every day but with the one that has got your back any day.Well, that seems so hard to find these days.So just be the best friend to yourself until you have found a best friend like yourself.
— Olaotan Fawehinmi, The Soldier Within
The consciousness of Divine friendship in devotion, so far from being impaired, is deepened by holy veneration. The purest and most lasting human friendships are permeated with an element of reverence; much more this friendship of a man with God.
— Austin Phelps, The Still Hour or Communion With God
Being first to ask for help in a friendship takes courage and humility.
— Afton Rorvik, Storm Sisters: Friends Though All Seasons
Though my hair has grown grey now, and my sight dim, and my heart cold with years, and ennui, and disappointment, and treachery of friends, and yet I have but to lean back in my arm-chair and think, and those sweet figures comes rising up before me out of the past, with their smiles, and their kindnesses, and their bright tender eyes!
— William Makepeace Thackery
It seems there are some problems even Prosecco and cake can't make better.
— Lorraine   Wilson, Chalet Girls
Pain was a torn piece of paper.
— Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King
I had a slight feeling of babysitting as we walked soberly along together using all our old phrases, making all our old jokes, not quite feeling all our old fondness.
— Ben Dolnick, At the Bottom of Everything
For there is no such thing: Right person at the right time! Instead with the right team, Embrace Time that simply flies.Never when meeting old friends Does time really pass by?In trust and truth they make amends So Time they can really defy. Hence, no one denies then: In all it revitalizes. Principled friendship never dies!
— Ana Claudia Antunes, ACross Tic
Poor friend and learned physician, my sensitive and gentle companion, instead of treating and curing the sick you yourself have fallen beneath the yoke of death, and now belong to death's kingdom. For many months you have witnessed such suffering and horror as the human mind can scarcely conceive, as he who sees cannot believe. Perhaps it is for the best that your nerves have betrayed you, that a benevolent veil of forgetfulness has fallen upon your mind. Now, at least, you need not fret or worry about what the future may hold in store for you.
— Miklós Nyiszli, Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account
Every place where we were together was a symbol of our youth and our blissful ignorance of the world. It was our tiny bubble of happiness. And as I looked carefully at them, memorizing their faces and everything I was able to see about them, I mentally made a toast. Here's to all the sleepless nights and to our existence.
— Kia Amazona, The Way It Was Before
Friendship begins with a word.
— GE Paulus
My Best Friend and I have spent plenty of time together, despite me being in my First Ever Relationship. This is because friends should always come first.
— Holly Smale, Picture Perfect
Reason to move to New York: I don't to get left behind
— Holly Smale, Picture Perfect
One very gratifying compliment I sometimes hear is that women want to be my best friend. This endlessly amuses my actual best friend, Jocelyn, because in her estimation I’m 'a good friend, but not that great.
— Mindy Kaling, Why Not Me?
You knew me before I made my millions, and you were nice to me when you didn’t have to be. That’s the kind of person I want in my corner.
— Kelly Moran, Counterbalance
We are LornaCruzCharlotteDelilahIsla and we aren’t afraid of love, even if we’re supposed to be.
— Corey Ann Haydu, The Careful Undressing of Love
Different men view the same things in different ways. And the same men in the course of a few years alter their whole view of life. They have simply changed their companions on the road. Indeed the breaking with one set of people and the forming ties of friendship with others of a different type is often but the outward evidence and result of a hidden and inward change of the more intimate friendships of the mind.
— Basil W. Maturin, Self-Knowledge and Self-Discipline
Incredible how quickly a world can change. How my entire person, our friendship, can be reduced to nothing, with just one confession.
— Alessandra Torre, Love in Lingerie
Life isn’t measured by the years/days/hours/minutes/seconds you live. Nor is it gauged neither by your accomplishments or wealth nor even by how many friends or good deeds. Life is solely valued by the people you have made feel good about themselves… for those are the ones that pass it on!
— Wes Adamson
I didn’t know that when your best friend falls in love, you do a little bit, too.
— Cory Ann Haydu
I fell over twice. It was loud. The garden was black outside our circle of light. The endless night stretched all around us, so we told each other that we had to be close together, together in the dark.
— Laure Eve, The Graces
There must be always wine and fellowship or we are truly lost.
— Ann Fairbairn
After all, you couldn't go through life rolling your friendships into one gigantic snowball. You wanted different kinds of friendships, with different kinds of people.
— Maud Hart Lovelace
Beyond certain age, friends do not come to your life with a design, but they essentially go out of you life for economic reasons. Friends you are left with are your ‘true friends’!
— Sandeep Sahajpal
I never really have believed in the existence of friendship in big societies - in great towns and great crowds. It's a plant that takes time and space and air; and London society is a huge "squash", as we elegantly call it - an elbowing, pushing, perspiring, chattering mob.
— Henry James, The Awkward Age
The sea never dries for it has so many friend
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The sea never dries for it has so many friends.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Remember, a friend does not need you to impress him. A friend loves you because you are true to yourself, not because you agree with him. Beware of grand gestures; the real mettle of friendship is forged in life's daily workings.
— Ethan Hawke, Rules for a Knight
You and me, we look out for each other. But I will take care of you a little extra, because I am your person, and you will always be my special horse.
— Megan Shepherd, The Secret Horses of Briar Hill
I did have a friend,' I said.'And your friend trespassed upon you,' the Wally replied.
— Alexandra Kleeman, You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine
I don't smile. Why tempt her to friendship?
— Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
You’re my best friend
—  I notice when your hands shake. I notice when your big mouth goes quiet!
At one point in time, every friend was a stranger. Love changed that.
— Jarrid Wilson, Jesus Swagger: Break Free from Poser Christianity
From that day on I go to each door in turn and sing the three songs that I remember from school. Within a few days I'm overwhelmed how happy they appear to be when they hear or recognize me.
— Corinne Hofmann, The White Masai
Love your friends' kids even if you don't want or like children. Just do it.
— Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist
I wanted to tell it like it is, that they were right: it's nerve-wracking being a teenager. But instead, I explained to them the importance of being a trusted friend, and that friendship made the teenage years fun, when true camaraderie grew and developed.
— Oddný Eir, Land of Love and Ruins
In that still and settled placeThere's nobody but youYou're where I breathe my oxygenYou're where I see my viewAnd when the world feels full of noiseMy heart knows what to doIt finds that still and settled placeAnd dances there with you
— Edward Monkton
It always took my breath away,’ he said, ‘that the five of us could have found one another–against such odds, through all the layers of armored fortifications each of us had set up… Do you see now why I believe in miracles? I used to imagine time folding over, the shades of our future selves slipping back to the crucial moments to tap each of us on the shoulder and whisper: Look, there, look! That man, that woman: they’re for you; that’s your life, your future, fidgeting in that line, dripping on the carpet, shuffling in that doorway. Don’t miss it.
— Tana French, The Likeness
Of course there was no way my mind could have comprehended all that this friendship would become. There are probably only a handful of times in our lives when someone who will change us forever walks in-- when we find someone we can love with our whole hearts, who will challenge us and shape us and make us feel like the world is safer and brighter just because they are in it. A person who loves us for exactly who we are, yet teaches us to be better because of who they are and how they live their life.
— Melanie Shankle, Nobody's Cuter Than You: A Memoir about the Beauty of Friendship
Lola and I both highly believed in the value of metaphorical gifts, so while everyone else saw a demonic-looking cat skeleton dripping wax on the packaging, Lola saw the message: Our friendship is like this feline shaped candle - burn away all the shit, and you and me are still solid underneath. Always.
— Krystal Sutherland, Our Chemical Hearts
Among the tortures and devastations of life is this then—our friends are not able to finish their stories.
— Virginia Woolf, The Waves
She got up , walked around the table, and gave him a lingering hug, running her fingers through the back of his hair. She'd been finding more excuses to hug him lately."What was that for?" Dill asked."Because you looked like your heart stepped on a Lego.
— Jeff Zentner, The Serpent King
I'm sorry it's not Mark - it could've been. It should've been. It might've meant something. Maybe not much, but certainly more.
— Carrie Fisher, The Princess Diarist
I'd rather you wanted to make love,' said Dernhil, smiling crookedly. 'That was my first thought, when you barged in here. I could easily refuse that.''It's a much lesser question,' said Cadvan gravely. Then he gave Dernhil a sharp look. 'Would you really refuse me?''Probably.' Dernhil's eyes brimmed with sudden laughter. 'Honestly, Cadvan, have you no grace? What a thing to ask!'Cadvan's rare smile smile leapt in his face. 'It occurs to me that I might love you well enough.'Dernhil looked briefly astonished. 'And to think that all these years I thought you hated me!' he said lightly. 'You know I don't hate you,' said Cadvan. 'I think you know I never did. Nor you me. And you, maybe more than anyone else I know, understands that there are many kinds of love.' He gestured impatiently. 'That's not what I'm asking, anyway.''I know.' Dernhil met his gaze darkly. 'Only you would demand such a thing, in the middle of the night, from me, of all people!''Yes,' said Cadvan, a soft mockery in his voice. 'From you, of all people!'Dernhil looked down at his hands and was silent for a time, thinking. Cadvan waited patiently, watching him. When Dernhil looked up, his face was open, and a smile lurked in the back of his eyes. 'Perhaps I love you enough to scary you, Cadvan,' he said. 'And that is a great deal more than you deserve.' p.146
— Alison Croggon, The Bone Queen
Who makes you least confused?""Calvin" There was no hesitation here. "When I'm with Calvin, I don't mind being me""You mean he makes you more you, don't you?""I guess you could put it that way.
— Madeleine L'Engle, A Wind in the Door
Keeping score, in friendships, is a losing game.
— Frank Sonnenberg, BookSmart: Hundreds of real-world lessons for success and happiness
I'd rather you wanted to make love,' said Dernhil, smiling crookedly. 'That was my first thought, when you barged in here. I could easily refuse that.''It's a much lesser question,' said Cadvan gravely. Then he gave Dernhil a sharp look. 'Would you really refuse me?''Probably.' Dernhil's eyes brimmed with sudden laughter. 'Honestly, Cadvan, have you no grace? What a thing to ask!'Cadvan's rare smile leapt in his face. 'It occurs to me that I might love you well enough.'Dernhil looked briefly astonished. 'And to think that all these years I thought you hated me!' he said lightly. 'You know I don't hate you,' said Cadvan. 'I think you know I never did. Nor you me. And you, maybe more than anyone else I know, understands that there are many kinds of love.' He gestured impatiently. 'That's not what I'm asking, anyway.''I know.' Dernhil met his gaze darkly. 'Only you would demand such a thing, in the middle of the night, from me, of all people!''Yes,' said Cadvan, a soft mockery in his voice. 'From you, of all people!'Dernhil looked down at his hands and was silent for a time, thinking. Cadvan waited patiently, watching him. When Dernhil looked up, his face was open, and a smile lurked in the back of his eyes. 'Perhaps I love you enough to scry you, Cadvan,' he said. 'And that is a great deal more than you deserve.' p.146
— Alison Croggon, The Bone Queen
What keeps [friends] together? Common history, some shared conquests, a delight in ideas and people and living. But they will also be distinguished by their ability to listen to you. They will not be uncritical, but they will understand and accept you. You will be interested in each other's happiness and well-being.
— Margaux Bergen, Navigating Life: Things I Wish My Mother Had Told Me
Friends with whom you seriously fall out are death. Sometimes it will be completely your fault that this happens, and the shame and sadness of the parting will stay close for a long time.
— Margaux Bergen, Navigating Life: Things I Wish My Mother Had Told Me
You don’t hit on your best friend’s love interest
—  it’s an unspoken rule of friendship.
The eyes of his friend were moist and dark, and in them he saw the little rectangled pictures of himself that he had watched a thousand times.
— Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
My father and he had cemented (the verb is excessive) one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether. They used to exchange books and periodicals; they would beat one another at chess, without saying a word.
— Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones
Friendship provides the ideas, tools, comfort, and motivation that nothing else can give or offer.
— Auliq-Ice
All the luxuries you name I have, still the peace I do not get.One day, my friend called me off, and I get the world to which I belong.
— Swati Tyagi
Go and have another look at the roses. And you will understand that yours is indeed unique in all the world.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
Where there is love, there are plenty of things that rhyme.
— Auliq-Ice
When you're alone, you harbour one hundred percent of all the good things. But this also means that you harbour all the bad things. I learnt my own goals slowed down when I was with others, but having shared the good things, sharing the pain, having that friendship excelled what I alone couldn't do. It doesn't need to be logical, friendships are a part of life, and when is that logical? Life doesn't make sense, but you don't have to live it alone.
— Michael  Rogers, Healing Monarchs
When you're alone, you harbour one hundred percent all of the good things. But this also means that you harbour all the bad things. I learnt my own goals slowed down when I was with others, but having shared the good things, sharing the pain, having that friendship excelled what I alone couldn't do. It doesn't need to be logical, friendships are a part of life, and when is that logical? Life doesn't make sense, but you don't have to live it alone.
— Michael  Rogers, Healing Monarchs
You hear so many people talk about finding their soul mates only in relation to who they marry, but I think that, as women, our real soul mates are often found when we recognize some version of ourselves in someone else.
— Melanie Shankle, Nobody's Cuter Than You: A Memoir about the Beauty of Friendship
Sometimes you can look back on times in your life and know that God was guiding you even when you didn't know you were supposed to be listening.
— Melanie Shankle, Nobody's Cuter Than You: A Memoir about the Beauty of Friendship
Pull something out and show me.” I said thoughtlessly. Isaac started snickering, Ethan joined in. Asher was holding back a laugh, his cheeks turning pink. I thought about what I said and started laughing. There are just some things you can’t say in a room full of guys.
— B.L. Brunnemer, Trying To Live With The Dead
The coolest thing about fandom is the friendships made along the way with people who share your passions.
— Jacquelyn Middleton, London Belongs to Me
As an adult, most of my friends are women . . . they, too, had that moment when they realized they were all the “other girls,” and that every girl in the world is, too.
— Mara Wilson, Where Am I Now?
London is yours. If you want it.
— Jacquelyn Middleton, London Belongs to Me
Rachelle choked on a laugh. “You were always stronger.”“You,” said Amélie, “were always foolish enough to think that mattered.
— Rosamund Hodge, Crimson Bound
Eyes speak louder than words; life is precious; hate is poison; God is the best of all possible friends; silence and time are valuable treasures; happiness can be just as powerful in pretend; and soft licorice is a temptation in any color, especially exotic black.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
We have fangirl shorthand.
— Jacquelyn Middleton, London Belongs to Me
Looking back on months and years of intimacy, to feel that your friend, while you still remember the moving words you exchanged, is yet growing distant and living in a world apart—all this is sadder far than partings brought by death.
— Yoshida Kenkō, Essays in Idleness - The Tsurezuregusa of Kenko
Friends hurt friends. They don’t mean to, but it happens. So friendship is made of forgiveness as much as it is love.
— Toni Sorenson
We're here to work, not to make friends,
— Tandec2016
Why have you been my friend when I didn’t deserve friendship?” “Because friendship isn’t something anyone deserves…it’s just one of those blessings of life, you can’t earn…love has no price tag.
— Toni Sorenson
Friends don’t come ready-made or one-size-fits-all. True friends are always custom fit and one-of-a-kind…just for you.
— Toni Sorenson
One of the few advantages of reaching my age is that I've seen it all. Learned not to judge anyone until I've walked in their shoes. That's why we all need friends, isn't it, to help us out with the weak spots? And sometimes the weak spots nobody can see are the ones that hurt the most.
— Debbie  Johnson, Christmas at the Comfort Food Cafe
The Bible says that to have a friend we must show ourselves friendly. To that, I say, “Amen.
— Toni Sorenson
I just want a friend who “gets” me and then wants to keep me—flaws and all.
— Toni Sorenson
Want to be a good friend? Here’s what a friend does well: they listen, they stand by you, they tell you the brutal truth, they cause your tears from time to time, but then help you wipe them dry, they laugh with you…a lot, they don’t bring up your bad memories, they try to love the people you love, they go places with you at the most inconvenient times, they laugh some more, they create experiences and a string of memories held together by love, mostly that’s what they do…they love you even when you don’t love you.
— Toni Sorenson
Friendship, neglected, is like a flower deprived of water and sunlight.
— Toni Sorenson
To be able to stay beside a beloved one is the special privilege of a friend.
— Nakamura Shungiku
You cannot be a friend to someone else, if you do not have a friendship with yourself.
— Toni Sorenson
Friendship develops over tears, times, laughs and lunch.
— Toni Sorenson
A true friend will never stand in your allotted beam of light. They will get out of the way so you can grow, but they’ll stay nearby in case you need what they can offer.
— Toni Sorenson
Friends might share clothes and chocolate, but they must share books. Just like you share the same stars, share the same books and you'll never be apart.
— Toni Sorenson
If you’re truly friends, then you don’t just offer a little whisp of your love. You unzip your chest, reach in and pull your heart out and says, “It’s all yours—please keep it beating.
— Toni Sorenson
Friendship is never measured it words…it’s measured in memories.
— Toni Sorenson
There. Let the gods of friendship and common sense strike him dead.
— Kelly Moran, Tracking You
Dear Ellis, I have something really fucking angelic to tell you.
— Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces
Mickey holds up the soggy paper. DIE. Don't you die.
— Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces
Evan always used to day that it wasn't that you couldn't see that you should be afraid of, but what was right in front of you, in plain sight.
— Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces
reining yourself in because why ruin a good thing? why make it weird? and then you say goodbye, with a hug, with a snarky remark, and head home. you climb into bed and imagine them with you. you think about how their hair falls in their face, about how they breathe when they sleep. you think about them waking up and nudging you into consciousness with soft kisses down your torso. you sit in bed and think of all the ways you could make their soul dance. how you know their quirks and it all feels so right, but why? why is this happening? why can’t you just be content with what you have now? except even now you have to control the urge to kiss them, even though it is in your nature, even just on the cheek, because what if it breaks the relationship apart at the seams? you may not even mean it sexually or romantically, but what if? and there’s always the chance they have felt this way too. but it’s only a chance. and why risk it? so you lay there in bed and twist the sheets around your legs and text them back about another person they have feelings toward and coax them into something healthy. you put their happiness before your own. you watch as they stumble and help them rise mightily. you gush over them and try to snuff out the selfishness that builds whenever you see them with someone else. it wouldn’t be fair to them to impose your own wants on them and take away a good friendship. it isn’t always about you. and yet here you are, writing this. writing this and thinking of someone specific the entire time.
— Taylor Rhodes, calloused: a field journal
...I'm in a little bubble of warmth, just like I had with Ellis, a place I never thought I'd be again.
— Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces
For twenty-seven years I was told and believed it to be true, that if you really liked someone, you'd wish her/him to 'stay the way s/he is'.Today I know that I was not wrong, but my view was limited. If I really like someone today, I don't want them to merely stay that way, I want them to grow, to discover their potential, and am excited to see who they choose to become.
— Akilnathan Logeswaran
I must love and be loved. I must feel that my dear and chosen friends are happier through me. When I have wandered out of myself in my endeavour to shed pleasure around, I must again return laden with the gathered sweets on which I feed and live. Permit this to be, unblamed—permit a heart whose sufferings have been, and are, so many and so bitter, to reap what joy it can from the necessity it feels to be sympathized with—to love.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck
In any case the friendships of later life, in contrast wih those negotiated before thirty, are apt to be burdened with reservations, constraints, inhibitions.
— Anthony Powell, A Dance to the Music of Time: 4th Movement
The next day he passed Alai in the corridor, and they greeted each other, touched hands, talked, but they both knew that there was a wall there now.It might be breached, that wall, sometime in the future, but for now the only real conversation between them was the roots that had already grown low and deep, under the wall, where they could not be broken.
— Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
You have been my friend... And that in itself is a tremendous thing.
— E.B. White, Charlotte's Web
Of course we're friends ... we are both civilized men, aren't we? We've shared bed and board and bottle. We'll always be friends, and the dog collar I have on you will always be ignored by mutual consent, and I'll take good and benevolent care of you. All I ask in return is your soul. Small item. We can even ignore the fact that you've handed it over, the way we ignore the dog collar.
— Stephen King, The Shining
What's in a life without Camaraderie? For setting sail on a ship with a band of merry brothers by your side is much more gratifying than drifting aimlessly on a boat lost alone at sea.
— Saim .A. Cheeda
I pressed my hand against her hair, holding her to me, filled with the certainty that she was going to hurt me again and that I didn't have the strength to push her away before she did.
— Maggie Stiefvater, Ballad: A Gathering of Faerie
a good friendship is beneficial to both, a bought friend is a free enemy that no one can afford.
— Antwine Huffman
Life without friends is just like a land that is barren.
— Babu Rajan
See, that’s what I want more of. A little spunk!""Fuck off!" I yell, shocking myself with my vulgar language."Ooh, yes, carry on, you filthy-mouthed bitch!"I gasp and swing around, finding him grinning from ear to ear. "Wanker.""Cow.""Tosser."He grins some more. "Dog.""Shirt-lifter," I retort."Tart."I recoil, horrified. "I am not a tart!
— Jodi Ellen Malpas, Promised
See, that’s what I want more of. A little spunk!’‘Fuck off!’ I yell, shocking myself with my vulgar language.‘Ooh, yes, carry on, you filthy-mouthed bitch!’I gasp and swing around, finding him grinning from ear to ear. ‘Wanker.’‘Cow.’‘Tosser.’He grins some more. ‘Dog.’‘Shirt-lifter,’ I retort.‘Tart.’I recoil, horrified. ‘I am not a tart!
— Jodi Ellen Malpas, Promised
Reading is, with friendship, one of the surest contributions to the work of grieving. It helps us, more generally, to grieve for the limitations of our life, the limitations of the human condition.
— Didier Anzieu, Le Corps De L'oeuvre
Just because our friendship has changed and now we grow in different directions, does not mean that we have to grow apart.
— Toni Sorenson
Silence can be breathing space and spawn release and wellness in a time of appalling inflation of words. But silence may be intolerably screaming, if it means absence of communication, deficiency in friendship and emotional deficit. (« A gap of silence”)
— Erik Pevernagie
Perhaps the ache of homesickness was a fair price to pay for having so many good people in her life.
— Becky  Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Ah, two firm friends, reunited at last! There should be sweet violin music playing for us, but I'll settle for the screams of the dying.
— Jonathan Stroud, The Creeping Shadow
I love you, Gretchen Lang. You are my reflection and my shadow and I will not let you go. We are bound together forever and ever! Until Halley’s Comet comes around again. I love you dearly and I love you queerly and no demon is bigger than this!
— Grady Hendrix, My Best Friend's Exorcism
How're you holding up?" He slid down the wall next to me and handed me a beer."I've had better days." I took a long, satisfying drink and stared at the wall in front of me."Yeah," was his simple reply. "My dad is downstairs. He said this wake sucks." I could hear that he was smiling.I took another swig. "Well, I didn't plan this shindig, but the next funeral I host, I'll make sure it's a rager.
— J.B. Hartnett, The Morbid and Sultry Tales of Genevieve Clare
What I'm saying... I hate it when people let me down, when things are temporary.
— Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian
…I love you,” he said to her, although at that point he was certain she could no longer comprehend the words. “I’d trade places with you in an instant, Mandy Valems… you never deserved this… why would anyone do something so terrible!?” A cold chill froze his heart when he saw her empty eyes again.The fluorescent lights in the dim room sparked to life all of a sudden, brightness so sharp that it startled him. In a flash, sharp and sudden, quicker than a lightning strike, the bulbs flickered and exploded with a few jingling pops.
— Rebecca McNutt, Mandy and Alecto: The Collected Smog City Book Series
.. And then he remembered that darkness was his best friend and it will always be.
— Tahar Mtibaa
I'd rather be befriended as an aimless lost soul than be befriended for adornment, gain or goal.
— Donna Lynn Hope
Tip and Lulu shared a smile… and what can we say? Best friends were made that day. Marafiki milele was what they would stay. Their laughter could be heard for miles around. It truly was a wonderful sound.
— Lauren Isabelle Pierre, Tip & Lulu: A tale of two friends
A person who posses a cunning attitude are not always academically intelligent, but they are considered clever because they can manipulate and cause harm towards others in order to gain something out of them for their own benefit. They can be defeated if people stand up towards them and point out their actual inappropriate behavioral activities with logical reasoning.
— Saaif Alam
I'm not sure why that story came back to me while I sat huddled in Sydney's car on the way to the lake. It happened so long ago. I guess maybe it was because it gave me the assurance that when things got bad, there were certain people you could always count on.
— D.J. MacHale, The Light
If two people are so unalike, as you and I, they are pleased when they discover points of agreement. But if they are as alike as Nietzsche and I, they suffer from their differences.
— H.F. Peters, My Sister, My Spouse: A Biography of Lou Andreas-Salomé
Just remember, honey, you only have one heart.
— Louise Bagshawe
I want him to be with me because he likes being with me, not because he's forced to be with me or because he wants something from me. That's not how friendship should be." [Ellani]
— A.L. Davroe, Nexis
Let us learn how to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead' he suggested, 'After that my own rule is to let everything alone'.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
She is her own definition of beauty. She is pure. She is majestic; mystical even. Her smile is always rejuvenating. Her presence is always illuminating. She is magic in thought, and magic in sight. She takes away your free will, and forces you smile. She takes away your fatigue, and only gives you strength. She always rouses my soul and makes me stretch for more. I lose no words for her. I lose no heartbeats for her. I love her. I adore her. And I won’t dance around her – I’ll embrace her. Aceria, you are a magnificent friend, and the long awaited dream come true.
— Lionel Suggs
Don't judge people by their profession, otherwise you'll end up with more enemies than friends.
— Abhijit Naskar
Friendship warrants giving up the ego, submitting you to the other person, and remaining non-judgemental in the whole process.
— Girdhar Joshi, Some Mistakes Have No Pardon
That's the mark of true friends. That we might not see each other for a year but when we do it's as if we were never apart.
— Jane Green, To Have and to Hold
Some people, though related by blood, are as sworn enemies. Others, bound only by friendship, would die for one another.
— Beem Weeks
Jesper: “If Pekka Rollins kills us all, I’m going to get Wylan’s ghost to teach my ghost how to play the flute just so that I can annoy the hell out of your ghost.”Kaz: “I’ll just hire Matthias’ ghost to kick your ghost’s ass.”Matthias: “My ghost won’t associate with your ghost.
— Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
He was easy to talk to, and easy not to talk to-equally important qualities in a friend. Essential in a travel companion.
— Phil Knight, Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE
If people don't appreciate your REAL self it's hard to be with them, but you only find TRUE friends by SHOWING that self & TRUSTING.
— Jay Woodman
It is often while travelling through the dark that you find the ones who shine brightest in your life. For they are the ones who remind you of your own beautiful light and show up, without a second thought, in your pain, as well as your glory.
— Anna Taylor
A friendship where you're always trying to be considerate of the other person, always worrying about what they think, always responding to every single text, always seeking their approval and then finally connecting with them, isn't friendship at all.
— Wataru Watari, やはり俺の青春ラブコメはまちがっている 1
For that is what you are, that is who you are – you are an author. You cannot cease to write any more than you can cease to breathe...This difficult season will pass – your eyes and mind will inevitably be opened once more to the wealth of ideas all around you...And even if the ideas around you fall short of what you seek – even if, as you say, you have not the heart to write… perhaps it is your heart you ought to write of. - Laurie to Jo, on writing
— Trix Wilkins, The Courtship of Jo March: a variation of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women
Um, thanks,” Jackson told her. “And your name is…?”“I’m Margaret, Margaret Van Der Graaf,” she answered with another eerie smile. Her teeth were so white that they looked bleached.“Van Der Graaf?” Jackson repeated, trying to stifle his laughter. He didn’t want to be rude to the only person in sight, to this kind-hearted stranger who was offering to help him, but… Van Der Graaf?“What are you laughing at?” Margaret asked with curiosity, flashing him a calculating gaze. “I like my name. If you’re going to be a jerk, then I won’t help you. You can stay out here on the street through the night for all I care.”“…Harsh,” said Jackson, giving her a quizzical glance back. There was something ‘off’ about her, something that Jackson couldn’t quite place, something that bordered on horrible loneliness and longing. “Who else lives here, Margaret Van Der Graaf?” He couldn’t resist saying her name aloud. Despite its hilarity, it had a nice ring to it. “Who else lives here?” he urged.“Me, myself and I,” said Margaret simply, snickering when she saw his horrified and annoyed expression
— Rebecca McNutt, Three Little Ghostly Operatives
Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed, not to be desired; it is to be exercised (it is a virtue).
— Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace
If every mortal looks at others as their friends, not as their enemies, the world would be a much better place, wouldn't it?
— Morgan Rhodes, Frozen Tides
The error was not yours, Somerled," Eyvind said quietly, moving to the doorway. "It was mine. I failed to teach you the one lesson you could not do without: how to be a man.
— Juliet Marillier, Wolfskin
As a rule, she didn’t like boys very much, but she had to admit, Charlie was actually pretty nice.
— Sarah Weeks, Pie
I am touched that you are trying to comprehend me. A friend could not be more loving.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, The Signature of All Things
That was the moment when Alice knew for sure that she and Charlie Erdling would be friends for the rest of their lives.
— Sarah Weeks
Friendship/Relationship... all is about the deal and business... give or take!?
— Deyth Banger
Good friends are much hard to find.
— Natalie Palmer, Second to No One
Love is a feeling that must be felt from the heart and seen through inner beauty. Only if this was known to the youth, many a marriages would have blossomed with age and cherished through decades. Just like a plant that needs the sun, water and more time to grow into a beautiful tree with lovely leaves and flowers, love needs time to be nurtured over time, built on a strong foundation of friendship, trust and honesty. When this foundation is built and combined with the feeling that tickles you from within, that is when love actually happens, the rest is all infatuation, attraction or even lust.
— Jagdish Joghee, The Colour of Love: Trumpets and bugles, there was music all over...
I'm worried about my friend not being imagined complexly enough.
— Esther Earl, This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl
That weekend my people brought home a big eared gray scrawny kit.He was so loud and annoying that I did not like him one bit.
— Melinda K. Trotter, Spice Cat Wishes for a Buddy
You sit right next to me.Still you don't seem close to me.
— Shillpi S Banerrji
This isn't goodbye. It's "see you later".
— Louise Bagshawe, Glamour
Building a trust to a friend or to anyone else is like sewing an elegant gown, once betrayed the string or needle breaks and you gonna need to replace them.The relationship will go on but it will never have the same treatment.
— Bradley B. Dalina
Do you wonder why we wander?” Cal had asked.It was the night of the first snow; you could hear the branches bending and the iciclesfalling outside the window, beyond the wall.They were warmth together. They were hot breath and blankets and wrapping themselves
— David Levithan, Are We There Yet?
They spoke of small things at first, since it was best, when reattaching threads, to begin with the easiest knots.
— Chris Cleave, Everyone Brave is Forgiven
I had been poor myself, and knew what awaited him in the world. He would find that they who fawned on him most would be first to turn their backs on him now. He would be rudely disillusioned regarding the fables of love and friendship, and would become cynical, bitter, and sceptical of there being any disinterested good in human nature.
— Miles Franklin, My Brilliant Career
Building a trust to a friend or to anyone else is like sewing a an elegant gown, once betrayed the string or needle breaks and gonna need to replace them.The relationship will go on but it will never have the same treatment.
— Bradley B. Dalina
Stop. Stop trying to make the illusion of strength. You don't need it. Not here. Not now. Let yourself be sad until the real strength returns.
— Elise Kova, Crystal Crowned
On the contrary, having the amiable vanity which knits us to those who are fond of us, and disinclines us to those who are indifferent, and also a good grateful nature, the mere idea that a woman had a kindness towards him spun little threads of tenderness from out his heart towards hers.
— George Eliot, Middlemarch
God's time is slow, patient, and kind and welcomes friendship; it is a way of being in the fullness of time that is not determined by productivity, success, or linear movements toward personal goals. It is a way of love, a way of the heart.
— John Swinton, Becoming Friends of Time: Disability, Timefullness, and Gentle Discipleship
The familiar (if loud) churn of the engine made it hard to talk, especially with the windows open (the air-conditioning didn’t work), but the day was warm and they blasted the music and sang along. Nessa loved singing at full volume. She couldn’t carry a tune, but with Bree it didn’t matter.
— C.D. Bell, Weregirl
Elli-" Neve lies down next to him. "It is not easy being friend with someone who has depression. Not because it's a burden, but because you love them. So their pain becomes your own." She rests her hand on his chest. "You really expect me to just sit by and do nothing ?
— Nelou Keramati, Resonance
And whatever troubled him and showed in his face might have been the same old trouble - the problem of occupying space in the world and having a name people could call you by, being somebody they thought they could know
— Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.
— John Evelyn
Well, you’re not exactly social, are you, Mandy Valems?”“Oh yeah, sure, because I’m just surrounded by genius to be social with in this day and age,” Mandy replied with razor-sharp sarcasm. “Hey, I don’t need anyone else! I’ve got you, you’re my friend, and you’ll be with me forever!”“…You won’t be with me forever, though…” said Alecto cynically. “I’m like a spider’s web; anyone who is friends with me gets dragged into my troubles and eventually dies.”“…Poetic, dear friend,” Mandy sighed, shaking her head. “Morbid, but poetic.
— Rebecca McNutt, Mandy and Alecto: The Collected Smog City Book Series
It pained me to imagine how our twosome appeared to others, marked as those kind of girls who belonged to each other. Those sexless fixtures of high school.
— Emma Cline, The Girls
They say distance makes old friendships fade away. They say with time and distance lovers forget one another. I find it quite the opposite. Distance, time, they all enhance the aroma of every moment two close souls once spent together, they magnify every little shared pleasure.
— Carol Vorvain, A fool in Istanbul - Adventures of a self denying workaholic
AMELIA: Thank you to everyone for keeping up with me while I run for the finish line.
— Amelia Hutchins, Playing with Monsters
AMELIA: Thank you for sticking it out with me no matter how crazy I get, because that’s what friends do. We’ve been through a lot together, so here’s to more shenanigans, and characters bickering!
— Amelia Hutchins, Playing with Monsters
Love never lives on a one-way street, for it will always come back up the road bigger than how we had sent it down the road.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
In one's awakening, the truest gift of consciousness and openness is recognizing SPIRIT in someone else. It is the mutual recognition and true connection between spirits that the SOUL MATE is born.
— Karen A. Baquiran
Good Lord, just look at that six pack!” She sighed. “I think you could grate cheese there.”“Fran, if you were with Daniel Craig with no shirt, I think the last thing you would think about would be grating cheese.
— Amanda Laneley, What I Love About Dublin
...but the tenure of friendships has never been governed by the passage of time.
— Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow
Inej placed her hands on Nina’s shoulders. “We’ll see each other again.”“Of course we will. You’ve saved my life. I’ve saved yours.”“I think you’re ahead on that count.”“No, I don’t mean in the big ways.” Nina’s eyes took them all in. “I mean the little rescues. Laughing at my jokes. Forgiving me when I was foolish. Never trying to make me feel small. It doesn’t matter if it’s next month, or next year, or ten years from now, those will be the things I remember when I see you again.”Kaz offered his gloved hand to Nina. “Until then, Zenik.”“Count on it, Brekker.” They shook.
— Leigh Bardugo
The smile on his face said, pure and simple, those honey cakes came with a price. And his price was answers.
— Melanie  Crowder, A Nearer Moon
I just want to be smart like other pepul so I can have lots of frends who like me.
— Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
If a man should ascend alone into heaven and behold clearly the structure of the universe and the beauty of the stars, there would be no pleasure for him in the awe-inspiring sight, which would have filled him with delight if he had had someone to whom he could describe what he had seen. Nature abhors solitude.
— Marco Tulliio Cicerone
Friendship depends on interlocking time, place, and state of mind.
— E.L. Konigsburg, Silent to the Bone
In the outworks of our lives, we were almost strangers, but we shared a certain outlook on human life and human destiny, which, from the very first, made a bond of extreme strength . . . . At our very first meeting, we talked with continually increasing intimacy. We seemed to sink through layer after layer of what was superficial, till gradually both reached the central fire. It was an experience unlike any other that I have known. We looked into each other's eyes, half appalled and half intoxicated to find ourselves together in such a region. The emotion was as intense as passionate love, and at the same time all-embracing. I came away bewildered, and hardly able to find my way among ordinary affairs.
— Bertrand Russell, Portraits From Memory and Other Essays
The Covenant of Grace is that eternal and intimate bond of friendship that God has established with His people in the Lord Jesus Christ
—  in which He is their sovereign friend and they are His servant friends
Wiping the tears off another’s eyes is one of the sweetest and coolest gestures ever. It says, “I am here if you need to talk or a shoulder to lean on. I may not understand your pains but I would do anything to keep the tears from falling”.
— Omoakhuana Anthonia
Nina would never let Kaz abandon her. She'd fight with everything she had to free Inej even if she was still in the grips of Parem. Matthias would stand by her with that great heart full of honor.
— Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom
As far as I’m concerned, the only thing sweeter than seeing a friend is that friend canceling on me.
— Maria Semple, Today Will Be Different
Stay away from people who drive your emotions crazily. Find a better company!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You
I have loved people passionately whom I wouldn't have slept with for anything, but I think that's something else. That's friendship -- love, which can be a tremendously passionate emotion, and it can be tender and involve a desire to hug or whatever. But it certainly doesn't mean you want to take off your clothes with that person. But certain friendships can be erotic. Oh, I think friendship is very erotic, but it isn't necessarily sexual. I think all my relationships are erotic: I can't imagine being fond of somebody I don't want to touch or hug, so therefore there's always an erotic aspect to some extent.
— Susan Sontag
The world is vast, its huge and you never know where your perfect or even comforting mate lies in this ocean of emotions and mixed world, hence one needs to explore and explore in the wild, giving it all to their fate, who knows whom we come cross, maybe 7 seven seas across who clicks us perfectly, even more perfectly than the person sitting next to you.
— Meeran W. Malik
Everyone is overcoming something, be gentle.
— Nikki Rowe, Once a Girl, Now a Woman
You have to know who to keep near you and those you should be far away from.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You
2. Overcommitment and time pressure are the greatest destroyers of marriages. It takes time to develop any friendship...whether with a loved one or with God Himself.
— James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future
You will never be able to go to the east if you follow people who are on the way that leads to the west.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You
Love is the most precious gift in life. Be grateful for all the love and support you get from your parents, your family and friends. Because nothing is as precious as receiving true and devoted love" - Monsieur Jac Couture
— Lily Amis, Angel of Hope & Lily: Featuring Monsieur Jac Couture
Peace is a place of unhindered enjoyment of friendship beyond guilt, suspicion, blame of inferiority
— François Du Toit, The Mirror Bible
Living in the past is always a bad idea; yet, on some level I believe the ones we love, even though not part of our present, are the very definition of who we are, the driving force of what we aspire to be, and at the end of the day, the past we must look to in order to improve who we will become. After all, we do not learn from what has not happened, but what has been, and what we will choose to keep or leave behind. Friendship, true friendship is never blind, but it holds the value of forgiveness - separating what we may or may have not done within the realm of mistakes....seeking the outcome of making us into better people.
— Tony C. Skye
Friendship makes the impossible possible!
— Lily Amis, Bon Voyage, Monsieur Jac & Lily travel to Europe
Their hands slapped library door handles together, their chests broke track tapes together, their tennis shoes beat parallel pony tracks over lawns, trimmed bushes, squirreled trees, no one losing, both winning, thus saving their friendship for other times of loss.
— Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
Your life is going to be influenced by friends you mingle with.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You
Children and rain, both are intimate friends.
— Tanmaya Guru