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It is a friend's duty that he does not leave his friend in a difficult position but provide intimacy and support to him. In difficulty who leaves is a false and the one not quitting is a true friend.
— Acharya Mahapragya
She was always saying things like that but I let her be my best friend anyway.
— Ellen Gilchrist, Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories
It's never too late to stop believing a lie," said Thomas. "You need only courage and friends, and you have both.
— Patrick Carman, Into the Mist
He makes no friends who never made a foe.
— Alfred Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson
By surrounding yourself with people who are positive, caring, intelligent, loving, and open-minded, you create a personal environment that is conducive to your emotional and personal growth. By surrounding yourself with the opposite, you create a personal environment that is conducive to the opposite. Choose accordingly.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Thorn gazed back and forth between the two of us. "You could have left me behind, but you stayed. I won't forget that.
— Patrick Carman, Into the Mist
I continued to move my fingers across his skin exactly as I had before, but I needed to make a decision. I had reached for him, but I could back out of it by trailing my fingers down his arm and settling my hand in his, like I wanted us to be friends.I didn't want us to be friends.Ever so slowly, I slid my hand up his sleeve, across his shoulder, and up his neck to cradle his jaw, prickly with stubble.
— Jennifer Echols, Dirty Little Secret
Don’t be too nice to him,” I teased. “He’ll never leave.
— Juliet Blackwell, Hexes and Hemlines
With Weasel and Arisa at his side, anything was possible. Anything.
— Hilari Bell, Crown of Earth
The very fact that a Frenchman was prepared, after tow minutes of conversation, to be so friendly towards anyone, especially one who had come from England, made me restless.
— Tahir Shah, Beyond The Devil's Teeth
How very wonderful friends the moon, the sea and the night are!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
His [Pitt's] successor as prime minister was Mr. Addington, who was a friend of Mr. Pitt, just as Mr. Pitt was a friend of Mr. Addington; but their respective friends were each other's enemies. Mr. Fox, who was Mr. Pitt's enemy (although many of his friends were Mr. Pitt's friends), had always stood uncompromisingly for peace with France and held dangerously liberal opinions; nevertheless, in 1804, Mr. Fox and Mr. Pitt got together to overthrow Mr. Pitt's friend Mr. Addington, who was pushing the war effort with insufficient vigor.
— J. Christopher Herold, The Age of Napoleon
Jimmy was in a league of his own when it came to puerile, half-pissed badinage.
— Jamie Holoran, Rounder's People
Have you ever noticed that idiots have a lot of friends? It's just an observation.
— Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
Love...who needed love? As long as she had her books and her friends and an occasional hookup, she was perfectly content.
— Lauren Conrad, L.A. Candy
Best Friends. And I thought of what she had done all the millions of times I cried to her, collapsing at even the slightest wounding of my heart or pride. So I reached over and pulled her to me, wrapping my arms around her, and held my best friend close, returning so many favors all at once....
— Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You
The webs spun by our existence had gracefully overlapped and knotted until you could not have one without the other. We were infinitely intertwined.
— Blakney Francis, Someone I Used to Know
We were all made with the potential to be the people we are supposed to be. We all have souls and we all have minds and we all have wills. Many people look at the world and see a beautiful place full of potential and love and beauty those are the people you want as friends. But many people look at the world and see a place that hurts, that causes pain, that destroys and corrupts. Those are the people you don't want to have as friends, for those are the people who will pull you down with them, who will fill your mind with similar thoughts, who will turn you from a positive person to a negative person. God made us all with the potential to be positive people, contributing to the growth of this world, but many people choose to be negative, diminishing the light of those who wish to do good.' 'Why?' Walker asked. 'Because, my friend, it's easier. It's unfortunate, but it's true. It's much easier for a person to think that the world will not let him advance, because then that person won't have many expectations of himself, and it's easier to fulfill low expectations.
— Tom Walsh
It was around then that the phone rang. It was my friend Cee Cee, wanting to know if I cared to join her and Adam McTavish at the Coffee Clutch to drink iced tea and talk bad about everyone we know.
— Meg Cabot, Darkest Hour
The dictionary says my identity should be all about being separate or distinct, and yet it feels like it is so wrapped up in others.
— Mary E. Pearson, The Adoration of Jenna Fox
Happiness is hanging with friends who know you way more than you'd care to share.
— Todd Stocker, Dancing with God: First Year Thoughts on the Loss of My Daughter
Want to know who I am?Your responses indicate that you have a normal desire to share yourself with others. However, this need is not being adequately fulfilled at present.As a result, you unconsciously attempt to treat this emptiness with momentary interests and temporary passions. If left unaddressed, this imbalance leads to impulsive behavior and unnecessary risks.Past betrayals have left you generally suspicious of others’ behavior, particularly regarding romantic relationships. You fear you may be exploited if you open yourself too fully. Consequently, you often seek some proof of a new friend’s or lover’s sincerity before you decide to trust them.Further complicating your relationships is the anxiety you have about your unfulfilled personal and professional goals. You fear that you’ve made decisions that weren’t in your own best interest, or failed to take advantage of opportunities when they presented themselves.The desire to overcome these challenges sometimes lead you to seem pushy or even arrogant. Because this competitive urge is not always apparent to others, they are often surprised by it.However, the passion that underlies your desire for success is unique. This makes you unlike others. You cannot simply accept what life has to offer; you aspire for more.Between each inhale and exhale we die and are reborn.
— Micheal Tsarion
Be mindful of your social environment. By nature, the group you hang-out with will develop a common behavior and mindset. This behavior usually gravitates towards the lowest common denominator. Choose your group wisely.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Just for the record, I have come to fear all of your ideas in advance, simply from having endured enough of them.
— Violet Haberdasher, The Secret Prince
Gregory?” I called. I couldn’t help myself. It was irrational, but I was scared to see him run from me. He turned my direction, his feet pivoting in the dirt. Warily, I crossed into the light for a moment.	“Do you, um…” I inhaled deeply. “Do you think you’ll still want to be my friend tomorrow?” I held my breath and waited for his answer.	Although I could feel the sunshine perceptibly tingle every inch of exposed skin, the way Gregory smiled at me produced a swell of warmth unmatchable even for the sun. 	“I’ll always want to be your friend, Annabelle. Do you want to be mine?”	My head nodded like mad, ecstatic, all on its own. I disappeared among the shadows again and watched my new friend until he stepped around the Hopkins’ house. Then I waited until his car drove off -- Gregory and his mother headed for home. 	I was on a high like no other, but I’d not lost my grasp on reality entirely. I knew that the real test would come Monday. It was one thing to befriend an outcast in the privacy of the woods, but quite another to risk ridicule and reputation when surrounded by peers. This was true even for those with the biggest of hearts, which I now believed Gregory Hill to have.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Dandelions: The Disappearance of Annabelle Fancher
The one general theme I took away from that first week with my new friends, was that everyone had their issues. Life in its simplest form is an attempt to deal with and avoid potential impediments. Some families take dysfunction to lofty heights while other break apart like Oreos mixed in a blender.
— Phil Wohl, Second Honeymoon on Dune Road
You have no idea how much I appreciate your friendship,” Jules said. Sam held out several bills. “Yeah, actually I do,” he said. “It’s probably as much as I appreciate yours.
— Suzanne Brockmann, Headed for Trouble
Choosing friends based on how much money they have is like betting on a horse because you like its saddle.
— Stephen Smoke
None of us can be proof against the influences that proceed from the persons he associates with. Wherefore, in books and men, let us look out for the best society, that which yields a bracing and wholesome influence. We all know the person for whose company we are the better, though the talk is only about fishing or embroidery.
— Charlotte M. Mason
It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.
— Philip Green
Why don’t we do the whole friends with benefits thing?” he asks seriously.“Because I don’t think I’d enjoy having the benefits you give me removed” I answer back not missing a beat.“Just friends it is then” he says not perturbed and starts eating his lunch.
— R.S. Burnett, Wanna Bet?
A friend who shares is a friend who cares.
— American proverb.
She bit the inside of her cheek. “You wouldn’t keep secrets from me, would you? I mean we’ve been friends how long?”"We have been friends, thirteen years, eight months, two weeks, four days,” The wheelchair stopped and Ari watched the long shadow look at his watch. “Sixteen hours, four minutes and forty seven seconds and counting I’d say; give or take thirty minutes. Or if you want the short version: five thousand and four days plus or minus a few hours."She put her hands to her face and laughed to keep from crying. “Please tell me you made half of that up. Who actually keeps track of time like that?
— Victoria Escobar, Of Gaea
Love is messy. If you really love someone, you can't avoid the pain. People die, people leave, things change, but sometimes it all works
— Danielle Steel, Friends Forever
You cannot be betrayed by your enemies, only your friends.
— Brian D. Anderson, Of Gods and Elves
It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
— Sinclair Lewis, Arrowsmith
The Eleven king looked sternly upon Thorin, when he was brought before him, and asked him many questions. But Thorin would only say that he was starving.  "Why did you and your folk three times try to attack my people at their merrymaking?" asked the king. "We did not attack them," answered Thorin, "we came to beg because we were starving." "Where are your friends now, and what are they doing?" "I don't know, but I expect that they're all starving in the forest." "What were you doing in the forest?" "Looking for food and drink, because we were starving." "And what brought you into the forest at all?" asked the king angrily.  At that Thorin shut his mouth and would not say another word.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
You know, maybe we don't need enemies.""Yeah, best friends aree about all I can take.
— Bill Watterson, Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection
If you let life pass you by now, it won't ever come back. You don't get another chance
— Danielle Steel, Friends Forever
No good friends, no bad friends; only people you want,need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart .
— Stephen King
Sometimes you see someone doing something that does not fit at all with your idea of that person. You realise that, a lot of the time, you don't really know people, even one of your best friends.Instead, you get to know a little bit about that person - the little things they want to reveal, or inadvertently reveal - and then you make up a whole lot of rubbish that's your idea of the person.
— Steph Bowe, Girl Saves Boy
There are few things worse than mistaking an enemy for a friend.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
They say blood is thicker than water, but I say ice, can be more solid than blood, when times get cold.
— Anthony Liccione
I will always love my mother for who she is and everything she does.
— Tammy-Louise Wilkins
God helps everything come to pass. However, he reminds us that nothing comes to stay.
— Shannon L. Alder, 300 Questions to Ask Your Parents Before It's Too Late
The best friends are those you can argue with but love anyway.
— Ruth Ann Nordin, The Earl's Inconvenient Wife
I looked forward to making friends at school, but I had come late and friendships had already been formed. I couldn’t find my way into their world. They seemed to have a secret code I couldn’t decipher.
— Gloria Whelan, Listening for Lions
As Christians, we should be the best collaborators in the world. We should be quick to find unlikely allies and subversive friends, like Jesus did.
— Shane Claiborne, Red Letter Revolution: What If Jesus Really Meant What He Said?
They seek each other out, these people of such specific like mind. They tell of how they found the circus, how those first few steps were like magic.
— Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
— John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
True friends are to people what lighthouses are to ships. No matter how stormy it gets, they stay put and light our way.
— Julie-Anne
When we want to see someone in a certain way, we find a way, but when we don't we have to wake up and see who they truly are and not what our pain or anger chooses to believe.
— Shannon L. Alder
You haven't any right to expect your friends to be larger than yourself, larger than life. Just take them as they are, cut down to average size, and be glad you have them. To drink with, laugh with, borrow money from, lend money to, stay away from their special girls as you want them to stay away from yours, and above all, never break your word to, once it's been given.And that is all the obligation you have, all you have the right to expect.("New York Blues")
— Cornell Woolrich, Night and Fear: A Centenary Collection of Stories by Cornell Woolrich
She was as necessary as the sun to me
— Tiffany Baker, The Little Giant of Aberdeen County
But when your heart is tired and dumb, your soul has need of ease,There’s none like the quiet folk who wait in libraries–The counselors who never change, the friends who never go,The old books, the dear books that understand and know!
— Margaret Widdemer, The Old Road to Paradise
Of course, he didn't know anything about these Indonesians, or why they would have been there at this moment to save his life, but the fact that they had guns and weren't firing them at him implied that for the moment, at least, they were his dearest friends.
— Orson Scott Card, Shadow Puppets
Sometimes when I see people from high school I feel trapped in a persona I maintained then,' she says. 'Ten years have gone by, a dive changed a tremendous amount - both emotionally and in circumstance. So while my oldest relationships are incredibly dear, and it's true that they know me intimately, it can be freeing to have relationships built on exactly who you are at this moment.
— Rachel Bertsche
I hadn’t gone to Andover, or Horace Mann or Eton. My high school had been the average kind, and I’d been the best student there. Such was not the case at Eli. Here, I was surrounded by geniuses. I’d figured out early in my college career that there were people like Jenny and Brandon and Lydia and Josh—truly brilliant, truly luminous, whose names would appear in history books that my children and grandchildren would read, and there were people like George and Odile—who through beauty and charm and personality would make the cult of celebrity their own. And then there were people like me. People who, through the arbitrary wisdom of the admissions office, might share space with the big shots for four years, might be their friends, their confidantes, their associates, their lovers—but would live a life well below the global radar. I knew it, and over the years, I’d come to accept it.And I understood that it didn’t make them any better than me.
— Diana Peterfreund, Rites of Spring (Break)
The decision to move to the second post-college city (or suburb, or town), however, is usually made independent of friends. No matter if you do it for love, career, family, or school, the second move is on your own terms.
— Rachel Bertsche
He did not know or care whether they were wizards or Muggles, friends or foes; all he cared about was that a dark stain was spreading across Dobby's front, and that he had stretched out his thin arms to Harry with a look of supplication. Harry caught him and laid him sideways on the cool grass."Dobby, no, don't die, don't die -"The elf's eyes found him, and his lips trembled with the effort to form words."Harry...Potter..."And then with a little shudder the elf became quite still, and his eyes were nothing more than great glassy orbs, sprinkled with light from the stars they could not see.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
And every book, you find, has its own social group--friends of its own it wants to introduce you to, like a party in the library that need never, ever end.
— Caitlin Moran, How to Be a Woman
When I didn't have friends, I had books.
— Oprah Winfrey
Books—they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions.
— John Green
There are people who are simply gifts to everyone they meet.
— Clara Kramer, Clara's War
Karakarof spat onto the ground at Dumbledore's feet. In one swift movement, Hagrid seized the front of Karkaroff's furs, lifted him into the air, and slammed him against a nearby tree.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
With friends, one is well; but at home, one is better.
— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
It's risky most of the time, but its better to listen to your heart.
— Jonathan Anthony Burkett, Friends 2 Lovers V.2: Closed Doors Open
I think we could be friends," he said, falling into step with her. "It's perfect because I wouldn't fall in love with you, like I do with the mermaids. Girls always seem so exotic. But it would be okay with you, because you're more like...you know. Not like a girl." He shrugged.
— Jodi Lynn Anderson
their eyes are full of kindness as each feels the full effect of novelty after a short separation. They are drawing a relaxation from each other's presence, a new serenity.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
Value them
—  they are pearls of great price
I close my eyes. I don't expect Four to reassure me, and he makes no effort to, but I feel better standing here than I did out there among the people who are my friends, my faction.
— Veronica Roth, Divergent
A friend drops their plans when you're in trouble, shares joy in your accomplishments, feels sad when you're in pain. A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice--but when you don't follow it, they still respect and love you.
— Doris Wild Helmering
True friends define each other.
— Michael Card, A Fragile Stone: The Emotional Life of Simon Peter
80% of man's happiness is based on love - love for others, love for self, love for family, love for friends, love for work, love for nature, and love for being loved.
— Ogwo David Emenike, Happiness Recipe: Eat and Stay Happy
I know we didn't accomplish anything, but it felt great to sit there and talk about our place in things.
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Let me, however, although no verbal critic, protest against the profanation of the word friend. In this my history I must be honest, make a distinction between the oriental diamond and its worthless imitation of paste, and separate the grain from the chaff — gossamer words, that weigh nothing, from substantial realities heavier than gold.
— Edward John Trelawny, Adventures of a Younger Son
So many people came into your life, and they were such a part of the everyday that it was impossible to imagine them gone until, one day, they were.
— Maryanne O'Hara, Cascade
All my friends are in my books.
— B. Cameron Lee, Diary of a Serial Killer
People first become friends, and then they love each other.
— Priest Nicolae Tanase
If you are looking for a friend that will never change, go to the shelves, you'll find it there. It will never change and will stay the same today and forever.
— Wency June Z. Libot
Anyone who is portraying Israel as a friend is a servant of Israel.I warn some sides against turning enemies into friends and friends into enemies.Some in the Arab world try to present "Israel" as a friend and Iran as a foe.Yet such conspiracies will fail. "Israel" has not been helping because of its hostile and aggressive nature. The Arab world is realising day after day that Iran is a friend, which was highlighted in Iran's support to Gaza and Lebanon.
— Hassan Nasrallah
It's true, I did say I wanted girlfriends," I capitulated hesitantly, "but couldn't we start with something smaller and less terrifying? Like maybe spend a weekend at a crack house? I heard those people are very nonjudgmental, and if you accidentally say something offensive you can just blame it on their hallucinations.
— Jenny  Lawson, Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir
You can't judge people and touch their souls at the same time.
— Tama Kieves, Inspired and Unstoppable: Wildly Succeeding in your life's work
Oh, look, the lights are so pretty,” I said dreamily, having just noticedthem.I smiled at the way the lights were dancing overhead, pink and yellow andblue. I felt some pressure on my arm and thought, I should look over and seewhat’s going on, but then the thought was gone, sliding away like Jell-O off ahot car hood.“Fang?”“Yeah. I’m here.”I struggled to focus on him. “I’m so glad you’re here.”“Yeah, I got that.”“I don’t know what I’d do without you.” I peered up at him, trying to seepast the too-bright lights.“You’d be fine,” he muttered.“No,” I said, suddenly struck by how unfine I would be. “I would be totallyunfine. Totally.” It seemed very urgent that he understand this.Again I felt some tugging on my arm, and I really wondered what that wasabout. Was Ella’s mom going to start this procedure any time soon?“It’s okay. Just relax.” He sounded stiff and nervous. “Just...relax. Don’ttry to talk.”“I don’t want my chip anymore,” I explained groggily, then frowned.“Actually, I never wanted that chip.”“Okay,” said Fang. “We’re taking it out.”“I just want you to hold my hand.”“I am holding your hand.”“Oh. I knew that.” I drifted off for a few minutes, barely aware ofanything, but feeling Fang’s hand still in mine.“Do you have a La-Z-Boy somewhere?” I roused myself to ask, every word aneffort.“Um, no,” said Ella’s voice, somewhere behind my head.“I think I would like a La-Z-Boy,” I mused, letting my eyes drift shutagain. “Fang, don’t go anywhere.”“I won’t. I’m here.”“Okay. I need you here. Don’t leave me.”“I won’t.”“Fang, Fang, Fang,” I murmured, overwhelmed with emotion. “I love you. Ilove you sooo much.” I tried to hold out my arms to show how much, but Icouldn’t move them.“Oh, jeez,” Fang said, sounding strangled.
— James Patterson, Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports
We never think lightly of those who walk with us on our uphill days.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
Sometimes you meet a person and you just click--you're comfortable with them, like you've known them your whole life and you don't have to pretend to be anyone or anything.
— Alexandra Ardonetto
I would far rather have two or three lilies of the valley gathered for me by a person I like, than the most expensive bouquet that could be bought!
— Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters
...the older I get, the more I believe that if love is to be judged by most of its visible effects, it looks more like hatred than friendship.
— Paul Hoffman, The Left Hand of God
If you make friends with yourself, you'll never be alone.
— Maxwell Maltz
Within Easy Company they had made the best friends they had ever had, or would ever have. They were prepared to die for each other; more important, they were prepared to kill for each other.
— Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
Sometimes there are stormy moments in your life when your friends do more than just walk with you
—  they become angels that carry you and protect you with their wings.
I don't like relationships, though. I mean, it is nice and all, but I prefer to be the friend. I don't know why. They're kind of exhausting.
— Abraham M. Alghanem, Summer and Autumn
Oh, I just think that a neat house is the sign of a boring person, that's all. And I don't really like to associate with boring people if I can help it.
— Katie Kacvinsky, Awaken
Life’s gonna kick you in the butt.That’s what it does. But if you gotta put up with this crap, the least you can expect is that your friends will stand by you. I mean, for crying in the night, what else are friends for but to help you make right what isn’t in life?			(Kira, The Mishmorat)
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Eena, The Tempter's Snare
Enemies are often former or potential friends who have been denied - or think that they have been denied - something.
— Idries Shah, Reflections
You can put the girl in a relationship...," I began, putting my arm around her. "But you can't take the boy-crazy out of the girl," Cassie finished.
— Jocelyn Davies, A Fractured Light
You'll may not have all the things you'll want in the world, but the true love that you'll have for each other should be enough for you two to be thankful in life still.
— Jonathan Anthony Burkett, Friends 2 Lovers: The Unthinkable
The world is full of 'friends' of suicide victims thinking 'if I had only made that drive over there, I could have done something.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
It's crazy. My life has been full of fun and adventure. but i love meeting people who make me feel like I've done nothing.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
The thing I've noticed about life is that it just keeps coming at you. And it can be a real bummer. What you need to remember is that you're not alone. You've got friends and family. That's how we get by. We talk and share and eat cake and giggle in the dark, even when we're scared - no, especially when we're scared.
— Bill Condon, A Straight Line to My Heart
The right people make you realize fame and fortune is cool, but small moments of pure freedom is better.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
Books, like friends, shoould be few and well-chosen.
— Samuel Paterson
It is not wise to think of people as either friends or enemies as if you were the center of the universe
—  many are not aware of your existance!
It seems the older we get, the tighter our inner circle becomes. When life has you down, some of those you thought had your back run, others...sometimes strangers surprise you and fill that empty space up. Oh, but life has a great balancing act and when that axle turns and you are right side up again...you will definitely not be looking for any long, lost "friends" because your inner circle is battle-tested to win!
— Sanjo Jendayi
My friends are always conscious of what people think of them. As though life is something that has an audience.
— Caroline Green, Dark Ride
There are friends, but they are people to spend time with, not people to share time with.
— David Levithan
I won’t have you calling me Miss Tuttle. That’s what the doc calls me. And the lady at the bank. One takes my temperature and the other my money. Friends don’t take anything—they give.
— Diane Lynn McGyver, Miss Tuttle's Lemon Tarts
With tact, exit from the world I’ve created, and we never have to speak of those good times again.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
It’s sad when friends become enemies. But what’s even worse is when they become strangers.
— Hayley Williams
Even if we no longer have much in common, we would have always had the past, which, in some ways, is just as important as the present or future. It is where we come from, what makes us who we are.
— Emily Giffin, Where We Belong
Don't underestimate the power of friendship. Those bonds are tight stitches that close up the holes you might otherwise fall through.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
I really like the thing called friendship. And I think the most fulfilling kind of friendship is the one that you stumble quite randomly upon. Unexpected and unknown. You can learn a lot about yourself from these kinds of friendships, and some last a long time while others last only for the duration of time that you have together! But then I wonder, is the length of a friendship measured by the time you are given to spend within each others' company? Or is it measured by how long into the future you can look back at the photos you took, look back and replay the adventures and the laughter in your head; still feeling like it was one of the "bestest" times of your life? Because if it's the latter, I have a thousand friends!
— C. JoyBell C.
You always knew after shitty things happened, who your friends really were.
— Jodi Picoult, The Pact
When you and I met, the meeting was over very shortly, it was nothing. Now it is growing something as we remember it, what will it be when I remember it as I lie down to die, what it makes in me all my days till then - that is the real meeting. The other is only the beginning of it. You say you have poets in your world. Do they not teach you this?
— C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet
Pick the weeds and keep the flowers.
— Kelly Clarkson
Noel: A lot of people see friends as something you have on Twitter or Facebook or wherever. If someone wants to read your updates and you want to read their updates, then you’re friends. You don’t ever have to see each other. But that seems like a stupid definition to me. Roo: Yeah.Noel: Although on the other hand, rethink. Maybe a friend is someone who wants your updates. Even if they’re boring. Or sad. Or annoyingly cutesy. A friend says, “Sign me up for your boring crap, yes indeed” – because he likes you anyway. He’ll tolerate your junk. Roo: You have lots of friends. Noel: No, I don’t. Roo: You do. You know everyone at school. You get invited to parties. Noel: I get invited to parties, yeah. And I know people. But I don’t want their updates. Roo: Oh. Noel: And I sincerely doubt they want mine. Roo: I want your updates. Noel: I want your updates. (He looks down, bashfully.) I do. I want all your updates, Ruby.
— E. Lockhart, Real Live Boyfriends: Yes. Boyfriends, Plural. If My Life Weren't Complicated, I Wouldn't Be Ruby Oliver
True friends are those who love you not in spite of your faults and imperfections, but because of them.
— Randa Abdel-Fattah
Roo: What’s your definition of popularity?Hutch: I used to think people were popular because they were good-looking, or nice, or funny, or good at sports. Roo: Aren’t they?Hutch: I’d think, if I could just be those things, I’d – you know – have more friends than I do. But in seventh grade, when Jackson and those guys stopped hanging out with me, I tried as hard as I could to get them to like me again. But then . . . (shaking his head as if to clear it) I don’t really wanna talk about it. Roo: What happened? Hutch: They just did some ugly stuff to me is all. And really, it was for the best. Roo: Why?Hutch: Because I was cured. I realized the popular people weren’t nice or funny or great-looking. They just had power, and they actually got the power by teasing people or humiliating them – so people bonded to them out of fear. Roo: Oh. Hutch: I didn’t want to be a person who could act like that. I didn’t want to ever speak to any person who could act like that. Roo: OhHutch: So then I wasn’t trying to be popular anymore. Roo: Weren’t you lonely?Hutch: I didn’t say it was fun. (He bites his thumbnail, bonsai dirt and all.) I said it was for the best.
— E. Lockhart, Real Live Boyfriends: Yes. Boyfriends, Plural. If My Life Weren't Complicated, I Wouldn't Be Ruby Oliver
It's always thoughts of family that drive me crazy, and it's always my friends who bring me
— Simon R. Green, Agents of Light and Darkness
You take care of family first, friends second, and neighbors when you can.
— Janice Hardy, The Shifter
I'm sarcastic and facetious. It's hard to find those people on the first encounter. I can be nice, but I don't want nice friends. I want funny, gregarious, sarcastic, and smart friends. It's so nice to hear you're not alone.
— Bertsche
One of my biggest complaints about adulthood is that it's difficult to simply hang out with friends
— Erin Rooney Doland, Unclutter Your Life in One Week
To be friends is a beautiful thing, Tessa, and I do not scorn it, but I have hoped for a long time now that we might be more than friends.
— Cassandra Clare
This is the most profound spiritual truth I know: that even when we're most sure that love can't conquer all, it seems to anyway. It goes down into the rat hole with us, in the guise of our friends, and there it swells and comforts. It gives us second winds, third winds, hundredth winds. ...your spirits don't rise until you get way down. Maybe it's because this - the mud, the bottom - is where it all rises from. ...when someone enters that valley with you, that mud, it somehow saves you again.
— Annie Lamott
We think of those nights spent with one or more friends, nights when we merged with the shadows and could see the world with eyes that were not our own.
— Whipplesnaith
With This Time Lost, Comes Time To Spend.To Spend On Love, Friends, Family, And Most Of All.. Time To Spend On Life.
— Jesse Holdeman
Alas! Charles made the promise glibly, and forgot all about it.
— Whipplesnaith
It was a gusty day, and from the windows of Caroline's top-floor flat, only the sky was visible with its little hurrying clouds. It was a day when being indoors was meaningful, wasting an afternoon in superior confidences with a friend before the two-barred electric heater.
— Muriel Spark, The Comforters
You don't tell anyone things like that about your friends, even when you're mad at them.
— Glenda Millard, A Small Free Kiss in the Dark
Oh we'll know each other for forever' Bix said. 'The days of losing touch are almost gone.' 'What does that mean? ' Drew asks.'We're going to meet again in a different place,' Bix said. 'Everyone we've lost, we'll find. Or they'll find us.
— Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
Stop teasing you two,” Suzy jumped in, “not all of Kathy’s ideas are wacky.”“Gee thanks. Was that supposed to be a compliment?
— E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
What are men to rocks and mountains?
— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.
— Mae West, Wit & Wisdom of Mae West
Sometimes a woman needs a man for company, no matter how useless he is.
— Lisa Kleypas, Sugar Daddy
I have found men who didn't know how to kiss. I've always found time to teach them.
— Mae West
I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.
— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
It is not titles that honour men, but men that honour titles.
— Niccolò Machiavelli
I mean, like most guys, you carry around this girl in your head, who is exactly who you want her to be. The person you think you will love the most. And every girl you are with gets measured against this girl in your head.
— Rachel Cohn, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
Part of me loves and respects men so desperately, and part of me thinks they are so embarrassingly incompetent at life and in love. You have to teach them the very basics of emotional literacy. You have to teach them how to be there for you, and part of me feels tender toward them and gentle, and part of me is so afraid of them, afraid of any more violation.
— Anne Lamott, Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
Some people are boys longer than others.
— Patricia Briggs, Iron Kissed
Good God. Men everywhere.
— Richelle Mead, Frostbite
I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating.
— Neil Gaiman, American Gods
He'll be cross if he sees I have been crying. They don't like you to cry. He doesn't cry. I wish to God I could make him cry. I wish I could make him cry and tread the floor and feel his heart heavy and big and festering in him. I wish I could hurt him like hell.He doesn't wish that about me. I don't think he even knows how he makes me feel. I wish he could know, without my telling him. They don't like you to tell them they've made you cry. They don't like you to tell them you're unhappy because of them. If you do, they think you're possessive and exacting. And then they hate you. They hate you whenever you say anything you really think. You always have to keep playing little games. Oh, I thought we didn't have to; I thought this was so big I could say whatever I meant. I guess you can't, ever. I guess there isn't ever anything big enough for that.
— Dorothy Parker
A man is responsible for his ignorance.
— Milan Kundera, Laughable Loves
But that is how men are! Ungrateful and never satisfied. When you don't have them they hate you because you won't; and when you do have them they hate you again, for some other reason. Or for no reason at all, except that they are discontented children, and can't be satisfied whatever they get, let a woman do what she may.
— D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
I wish to Heaven I was married," she said resentfully as she attacked the yams with loathing. "I'm tired of everlastingly being unnatural and never doing anything I want to do. I'm tired of acting like I don't eat more than a bird, and walking when I want to run and saying I feel faint after a waltz, when I could dance for two days and never get tired. I'm tired of saying, 'How wonderful you are!' to fool men who haven't got one-half the sense I've got, and I'm tired of pretending I don't know anything, so men can tell me things and feel important while they're doing it... I can't eat another bite.
— Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
I have met so many heartbroken men. It's a catastrophe. Women are easily overcome by the process that happens when a boy falls in love and becomes a man. Men's hearts are so often broken. Still, you have to leave your broken heart in a place where- when the woman who knows how to see what a gift is, sees it- your broken heart can be picked up again. I think that it takes a very strong woman (inner strength) to be able to handle a man falling in love with her, without morphing into a monster (the process is a very potent process, it can poison a woman, really). A woman thinks she wants a man to fall in love with her for all the perks that come with it; but when a real love really does happen, when a real man shows his manhood; it's often too powerful a thing to endure without being poisoned. Hence, all the heartbroken men. But, I do believe that there are strong women in the world today. A few. But there are. You could say, that the mark of a real woman, is a woman who can handle a man- a man falling in love with her. A woman who can recognize that, and keep it with her.
— C. JoyBell C.
He really was beautiful. I know boys aren’t supposed to be, but he was.
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
The problem with having problems is that ‘someone’ always has it worse.
— Tiffany Madison, Black and White
Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains?
— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.
— Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
— Erma Bombeck
I shudder at the thought of men....I'm due to fall in love again
— Dorothy Parker
Advice!Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are." "That is probably why you make such a bad job of it.- Perrin and Egwene
— Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World
Men and swords. My father said that if you put any able-bodied man, no matter how peaceful, into a room with a sword and a practice dummy and leave him alone, eventually the man would pick up the sword and try to stab the dummy. It is human nature.
— Ilona Andrews, Magic Bites
A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.
— Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
Summer bachelors like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.
— Nora Ephron
I want men to admire me, but that's a trick you learn at school--a movement of the eyes, a tone of voice, a touch of the hand on the shoulder or the head. If they think you admire them, they will admire you because of your good taste, and when they admire you, you have an illusion for a moment that there's something to admire.
— Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
Men should be what they seem.
— William Shakespeare, Othello
Let me tell you something. A man ain’t a goddamn ax. Chopping, hacking, busting every goddamn minute of the day. Things get to him. Things he can’t chop down because they’re inside.
— Toni Morrison, Beloved
Do you eat all of the men in the family? Where do they go? Does this house have a basement?
— Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves
Boys Shack, MEN build homes
— Steve Harvey
Men are as faithful as their options.
— Chris Rock
Some men break your heart in two,Some men fawn and flatter,Some men never look at you;And that cleans up the matter.
— Dorothy Parker, Enough Rope
He leaned forward and opened his door, politely standing aside to let me by before following me in. There are some advantages to dating a guy from another era, I thought. Though I am a big believer in gender equality, chivalry scores high in my book.
— Amy Plum
Men suck, even imaginary ones
— James Patterson, Sundays at Tiffany's
I began to see why woman-haters could make such fools of women. Woman-haters were like gods: invulnerable and chock full of power. They descended, and then they disappeared. You could never catch one.
— Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Evil turned out not to be a grand thing. Not sneering Emperors with their world-conquering designs. Not cackling demons plotting in the darkness beyond the world. It was small men with their small acts and their small reasons. It was selfishness and carelessness and waste. It was bad luck, incompetence, and stupidity. It was violence divorced from conscience or consequence. It was high ideals, even, and low methods.
— Joe Abercrombie, Red Country
We're dealing here," said Vimes, "With a twisted mind.""Oh, no! You think so?""Yes.""But... no... you can't be right. Because Nobby was with us all the time.""Not Nobby," said Vimes testily. "Whatever he might do to a dragon, I doubt if he'd make it explode. There's stranger people in this world than Corporal Nobbs, my lad."Carrot's expression slid into a rictus of intrigued horror."Gosh," he said.
— Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms: The Play
Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear.
— Niccolò Machiavelli, The Discourses
Men are always ready to respect anything that bores them.
— Marilyn Monroe, My Story
Don't let two men fall in love with you, girls. It's not the sort of thing that ends well."-Uncle Charles
— Ally Carter, Uncommon Criminals
I sort of got off on making bad guys sweat. Which was not unlike my love of making good guys sweat, just by very different means.
— Darynda Jones, Second Grave on the Left
Briar: "So I guess I was the last to know." Rosethorn: "Of course you are. You're a man, aren't you?
— Tamora Pierce, Street Magic
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
— Charles de Gaulle
Listen, there is no way any true man is going to let children live around him in his home and not discipline and teach, fight and mold them until they know all he knows. His goal is to make them better than he is. Being their friend is a distant second to this.
— Victor Devlin
For if there is one thing I have learned over the years about men, it is that feelings of powerlessness do not usually bring forth their finest qualities.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
Try to avoid getting involved with somebody who's gonna need killing before it's over. It may seem to you that that narrows the field somewhat, but be diligent. 
— Jill Conner Browne, The Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love
Ah men,why do you want all this attention?I can write poems for myself, make love to a doorknob if absolutelynecessary. What do you have to offer meI can't find otherwiseexcept humiliation? Which I no longerneed.
— Margaret Atwood
Men don’t often know those times when a girl could be had for nothing.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Last Tycoon
...and then she realized: they WERE all alike!
— Anne Taintor
Of the Seven Dwarfs, the only one who shaved was Dopey. That should tell us something about the wisdom of shaving.
— Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All
I like men to behave like men. I like them strong and childish.
— Françoise Sagan
I wouldn't want to assume that all men are like you. If I did, I know I would give them up entirely
— Patricia Cornwell, The Body Farm
Everything I do is going to contain the message that men who are going to be comfortable with powerful women are going to be more powerful men
— Joss Whedon
Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.
— Albert Camus, The Fall
Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.
— James Thurber
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
— Leo Tolstoy
Yes, he is a man, so genetically he's engineered to be dense about many things, but he's not stupid. 
— Katie MacAlister, Hard Day's Knight
Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments. 
— Elizabeth Peters, The Hippopotamus Pool
A sixty - eight, he wants you to go down on him but he won't return the favor. It would be sixty-nine but he owes you one.
— Lisa Kleypas, Sugar Daddy
When Small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.
— Lin Yutang
It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.
— Ian Fleming, Goldfinger
He's definitely one of those men you love before you get to know.
— Sarah Strohmeyer, Sweet Love
I realize that they giggle and I actually laugh, that they show their cleavage and I have none to show, but just so you know, I am also a girl. I'm one of the three wise MEN. And it's gay to think that James Bond is hot.
— John Green
Men are like dogs," Stacy was fond of saying. And she usually went on to add that, like dogs, they all took up too much space on the bed, and they always went for the crotch.
— Lisa Kleypas, Smooth Talking Stranger
There are some men who are consoled by the idea that there are women less attractive than their wives
—  and others who are haunted by the knowledge that there are more attractive.
Men. If you give them half a chance, they'll fuck you over just to prove they can.
— Dennis Lehane, Mystic River
Nothing is more appealing than a handsome man who is also uncertain of himself.
— Laurell K. Hamilton, Guilty Pleasures
There comes a time in a man's life when he hears the call of the sea. If the man has a brain in his head, he will hang up the phone immediately.
— Dave Barry
I do forget sometimes how much it means for certain men—for certain people—to be able to provide their loved ones with material comforts and protection at all times. I forget how dangerously reduced some men can feel when that basic ability has been stripped from them. I forget how much that matters to men, what it represents.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house. 
— Jean Kerr
Men are always complaining about how difficult it is to understand women but I think it is the other way round. Men clan up and do not express what they feel. Then they suddenly stop all communication with you and vanish. All you can do is wait. I wish men came with instruction manual.
— Preeti Shenoy, The One You Cannot Have