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On page 605, Blumenthal says that 'I made friends with Hitchens's friends the novelists Martin Amis and Salman Rushdie.' True in its way. I particularly remember the occasion when he called me up and invited me to dinner with Dick Morris, but only on condition that I brought Rushdie (who was staying in my house) along with me. No Rushdie: no invitation. So I never did get to meet Dick Morris.
— Christopher Hitchens
I do have friends. Maybe they live hundreds of miles away from me, and maybe I can only talk to them through a screen, but they're still my friends.
— Francesca Zappia, Eliza and Her Monsters
You can tell who your friends are because they don’t prevent you from being on your own, because they illuminate your solitude without interrupting it.
— Christian Bobin
If the nature of her foes would speak to the credit of Bridget's death, then surely the nature of her allies would speak even more loudly about clearly of her life.
— Jim Butcher, The Aeronaut's Windlass
...that we should look out of the window, choose a star, and make a last wish before we went to sleep, and she told us we should wish the best, not just for each of ourselves, but more for each other, because we were all the best of friends.
— Michael Morpurgo, Toto: The Dog-Gone Amazing Story of the Wizard of Oz
You never lose Friends.Real ones will always stay - no matter whatand the fakes, you don't need anyways.
— Drishti Bablani
A smile is a friend maker
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Book of Wisdom
A gloomy face drives friends away
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Book of Wisdom
If you're the smartest person in the room, you might wanna switch rooms.
— Sabrina Newby
They were laughing and their hair was shining like leaves in moonlight, their limbs long as saplings. I thought, Girls are magical at this phase, girls are invincible, nothing can touch them. I didn’t think ‘us’ because I didn’t feel that; I felt other, on the outside, watching them.
— Francesca Lia Block, Love in the Time of Global Warming
Friends are holy families.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Fear your friends. Beware of your close friends. Be alert to whom you cast your trust. Because not all of them will help you to build your future. Some are just pretending to be. Some are just there because they need your hand. Some are secretly pulling you down. Some are just there because simply they need you. They will leave you anytime. Be careful.
— Nathaniel E. Quimada
Only air and light and the love of friends! Let no man lose heart who still has these.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Selected Poetry
Is the any sincere friend like the Saviour, Lord Jesus Christ?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Back-to-back", Bayard replied, and Grimm felt the sudden, wiry pressure of the other man's shoulders pressed against the middle of his back."I should be friends with taller people," Grimm panted."Bite your tongue, old boy, or I'll hack apart your ankles.
— Jim Butcher, The Aeronaut's Windlass
He was still experimenting with kissing girls even though he said he'd rather be kissing boys. That's exactly what he said. I didn't know exactly what to think about that, but Dante was going to be Dante and it I was going to be his friend, I would just have to learn to be okay with it.
— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Never be an insincere friend, never be manipulative, one day you will be discovered and lose everything
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Book of Wisdom
A bad friend is nothing but a spy
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Book of Wisdom
There are friendships that are greater than family bonds, but they are very rare
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Book of Wisdom
A bad friend secretly plots your downfall
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Book of Wisdom
Would a robber break in your home at night beating drums? Nope. This is how those who want to take advantage of your life come: Full of smiles and promising sincere friendship!
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Book of Wisdom
Once you laugh with a person? That person is your friend.
— Susan Nussbaum, Good Kings Bad Kings
He took deep breaths. He wanted to sleep. At least in sleeping, he could find a kind of peace. At least in sleeping, he could dream about his dead friends and maybe, until the sun came up, feel like he wasn't all alone.
— Alex London, Guardian
I’ll make you a deal. I’ll toast to us becoming great friends if you promise to tell me when you want something more with me."My eyes rounded, then I tossed back my head, laughing at his deliberate word choice. When, not if."You're something else," I teased.He shook his head. "Nah, just optimistic.""All right." I lifted my glass. "You've got yourself a deal.
— Kerry Lonsdale, Everything We Keep
There was a time when I loved silence, because there was so much of noise of friends, family and other people around that I always needed some time to talk to myself. To think, to be myself.But now things are changed, I got what I needed the much needed silence , now I have so much silence around me that I feel like running from myself, hiding somewhere where I couldn't find myself. In search of some noise. Everything around me is so dead silent that sometimes it feels like a never ending nightmare.
— Ratish Edwards
I never knew this, but today i know how it feels when you try to hold on to some situation, some feelings, some people , in fact everything because you couldn't not be better without those things , people or feelings. But you can't because the more you try to hold them the more quickly they slip away from your hands. And the only choices you have is to either let them go slowly or to enjoy the rest of it i.e; nothing. And people say life goes on.
— Ratish Edwards
A friend gave me a rainbow as a gift, so I put it up in the sky so everyone could share.
— Anthony T. Hincks
Pretty soon all of us will be issued with hand scanners. That way when we met another person, whether we know them or not we can scan their ID cards. That way we will know whether to smile, frown, grimace, talk, walk away, laugh, shake their hand, give them a kiss, have a coffee with them, invite them over to your house, do business with them, have sex, go to a football game, have drinks or dinner together. I'm glad that our lives are getting so organized for us, because I would have to hate to make my own decisions concerning my own life.
— Anthony T. Hincks
A friend of mine gave me a rainbow and it made me happy. So, I in turn, gave it to a complete stranger and then it made both of us smile.
— Anthony T. Hincks
You're a bad man who made her pound a shot of Jäger.
— Yuhta Nishio, After Hours, Vol. 1
I'm afraid to go out at night because it's too dark.I'm afraid to try different food because I may not like it.I'm afraid to do something different because what if I fail.I'm afraid to smile at someone because it may lead to a conversation.I'm afraid to make friends because they may end up leaving me one day.I'm afraid to commit to any relationship because what if they're not as committed as I am.I'm afraid to go out because someone may break in while I'm not home.I'm afraid to think differently than everyone else because they may think that I'm crazy.I'm afraid of shadows because what would happen if one of them isn't my own.I'm afraid of being afraid because I'm too scared of everything.I'm afraid...Each of us is afraid of something, but if we let our fears dominate our lives, then we don't have any kind of life at all I'm afraid.
— Anthony T. Hincks
All the best things in life are free: love, smiles, friends, family, pets & companions, thoughts, sunsets & sunrises and especially rainbows.
— Anthony T. Hincks
A mafia could never kill an alliance. That’s how you become safe from the enemy, you befriend them.
— Basma Salem, The Art Of Black
Be careful whom you confine in.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You should write a book," Matrick suggested.Kit snorted. "Who wants to read the self-pitying lamentations of an old revenant?""There's your title right there," said Ganelon.
— Nicholas Eames, Kings of the Wyld
Ah, mate. My soul loves yours. It does. But this lifetime, my body won’t get on board.
— Molly Ringle, Immortal's Spring
Ganelon sighed. "Slowhand...""Never again," Clay said. "Where you stand, I stand.
— Nicholas Eames, Kings of the Wyld
Despite this, his prejudice against helmets remained unchanged. You had your pride, Ganelon had told him once, or you had nothing.
— Nicholas Eames, Kings of the Wyld
In Hebrew, satan means an advocate of the alternative, the one who makes the arguments you don't know how to refute." Michelangelo looked to the old Jew, still grinning wickedly in the corner. "That satan is my best friend.
— Adam Gidwitz, The Inquisitor's Tale: Or, the Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog
... it's not just for a friend. I mean, Reign is a friend, but... I like him. A lot. And I'd like it if he was more than just a friend.
— Parker Elliot, Where I'm Going
If you work hard and get help from good friends, together you can overcome almost any challenge, no matter how great.
— Mike Massimino, Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
Social media is like reunion, but the catching up is done through the comfort of your own bed. Scrolling through photos and statuses are too easy to not be done. You know about their social life and where they’ve been last weekend. Then you wonder why they have such flawless hair and make up. How could they look so effortlessly awesome?
— Marcella Purnama, What I Wish I Had Known
Maybe in life you get all kinds of soulmates. Multiple people who vibrate at the same level you do. I think that's what Fred is for me. I just don't get to see his penis anymore. So, no, I don't get my happy-ending tongue kiss in the rain, but I did get my friend back. And I don't have to worry about running these busted knees around after any babies.
— Samantha Irby, We Are Never Meeting In Real Life
Is there anything better than loyal friend?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
A stranger is just a friend waiting to be let in.
— Anthony T. Hincks
I love the stillness of a room, after a party. The chairs are moved, the cushions disarranged, everything is there to show that people enjoyed themselves; and one comes back to the empty room happy that it's over, happy to relax and say, 'Now we are alone again.
— Daphne du Maurier
No one leaves this hidden treasure,Feeling the same way they came,They always refer their friends to this Gem,This island with a beautiful name,My beautiful “Bim”—Barbados
— Charmaine J Forde
(...) if that's what has to be. No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.
— Stephen King, It
Unfortunately, we often have shallow relationships because we have paper towel friends. We use them up and then throw them away when we don't need them anymore.
— Jayce O'Neal
I have stayed in touch and connected with many over the years. I am very lucky that way. Some that you don't expect to connect with you will wind up loving. The ones that you look forward to the most will sometimes let you down.
— Michelle Visage
I use my friends rather as giglamps : There's another field I see: by your light. Over there's a hill. I widen my landscape.
— Virginia Woolf, The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Three: 1925-1930
We was used to each other in the way I s'pose two old bats can get used to hangin upside-down next to each other in the same cave, even though they're a long way from what you'd call the best of friends.
— Stephen King, Dolores Claiborne
You are fucked up...And still we are friends!?
— Deyth Banger
I can't believe I'm here,sitting with all my friends.There's No-one!And there's Nobody!My only two, and best true friends.
— Anthony T. Hincks
Come on... come on... I am waiting for answer... ...Silence doesn't make it... better...YOU SAID THAT WE ARE FRIENDS... AND i WAIT HOURS FOR REPLY!?
— Deyth Banger, BuZoever
Ask your friends for help if you need it. Asking for help can be costly if you don't have friends.
— Eraldo Banovac
You should be aware of fake friends because it is the hardest to be aware of.
— Eraldo Banovac
That was what made traveling appeal to him - he always made new friends, and he didn't need to spend all of his time with them. When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person's life. And then they want the person to change. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Don't look for your best friend, my child...Is always with you. Is YOU and ONLY YOU
— Viorica Dragotel
School friends rarely remembered, hardly forgotten...!!
— Akansh Malik
I'd rather be a friendless loser than have a bunch of friends who secretly hated me. (spoken by Massie Block)
— Lisi Harrison, The Clique
If you are lucky enough to have a childhoodfriend, try your hardest to grow old with them.These friends are a unique, irreplaceable breed.These friends lived through curfews andPolaroid pictures with you. These friends knowyour parents and siblings because they had to callyour house first to speak with you. Your memoriesare not frozen in time on social media, but live onnonetheless.Most importantly, they remember the personyou were before the world got ahold of you, sothey have this crazy ability to love you no matterwhat.They are the living, breathing reflection ofwhere you have been. And so, just when you thinkyou’ve lost yourself for good, they are there tobring you face-to-face with your true self, simplyby sharing a cup of coffee with them.As your world grows and becomes larger andmore complicated than your backyard, even if youestablish a life elsewhere, I hope your childhoodfriends remain lifelong allies, because mine havesaved my life on more than one occasion.
— Alicia Cook, Stuff I've Been Feeling Lately
An honourable man is fair even to his enemies
—  a dishonourable man is unfair even to his friends!
Your friendship is like a kiss that makes my heart young again and wipes out the years of darkness and destruction sure does remind me of Joel 2:25
— John M Sheehan
There are two kinds of people we meet in our lives who make a difference: those who remain in our lives and those we only meet once. Each kind has a different type of impact, but both are important.
— Kenneth Eade, Traffick Stop, an American Assassin's Story
My life was bigger than any one person.
— Robin Talley, Our Own Private Universe
Last year I told Lori I thought I might be bi. Ever since, whenever she saw me looking at another girl, she asked if I liked her. Lori didn't get that sometimes it was fun just to notice people without having to think about whether you liked them or not.
— Robin Talley, Our Own Private Universe
The laws of physics say if there’s a party, Isla will eventually end up dancing on a table.
— Corey Ann Haydu, The Careful Undressing of Love
Be picky about vibes. Be picky about the energy you surround yourself with. You owe yourself that much.
— Unknown
He watched over word and thought and deed as jealously as if her clear eyes were to pass judgement on it... She held over him the unconscious influence that every girl, whose ideals are high and pure, wields over her friends; an influence that would endure as long as she was faithful to those ideals and which she would certainly lose if she were ever false to them.
— L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea
While toxic food is bad for your health and well-being, so are negative and unethical people.
— Frank Sonnenberg, Follow Your Conscience: Make a Difference in Your Life & in the Lives of Others
I want you to make a list of all of your favorite things, and I want to be on it.
— Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me
If someone breaks your best friend's heart, you should break their face
— Abby Shanley
I am not so delicate as that. And I would only require one thing of you, if our camaraderie is to be cemented."“Anything,” I say, relieved that I haven’t lost a chance at my first real friendship. "If ever I begin to follow you about in the manner of Mirabella to Baldric, be so loyal as to smack me about the face until I regain my senses and dignity.
— Quoleena Sbrocca, Rayne: Insurrection
Beautiful is sick, so we’re here to smother her back to health.
— B.L. Brunnemer, Trying To Live With The Dead
Cutting out drama... Healthy mind and body choices... Intent followed by action... Keeping real friends and letting go of the pretends... Livin' clean for Twenty Seventeen!
— Steve Maraboli
A selfie has more face and fewer feelings.
— Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
Sure, you can break a man. Bend his will, even, but be careful with the ones that break easily. Those are the ones you have to keep a close eye on. Those are the ones that play possum and hide in the shadows. Just waiting for their time to strike! That's when you're most vulnerable. When you're surrounded by friends.
— Joe Reyes, Aftermath
... If I wanna shit I am going to buy it from the shop... what I need now is a friend on which I can count on... you know the drill.
— Deyth Banger
A man cannot be too careful in selecting the individual who is intrusted with his cartel. He should run over the names of his friends, and endeavour to obtain the services of a staid, cool, calculating old fellow; if possible, one who has seen some few shots exchanged: but I should advise his never choosing an Irishman on any account, as nine out of ten of those I have had the pleasure of forming an acquaintance with, both abroad and in this country, have such an innate love of fighting, they cannot bring an affair to an amicable adjustment.
— A Traveller, The Art of Duelling
When your lover is your best friend…then you know you’re one of the few and the fortunate.
— Toni Sorenson
A friend is someone who makes you a better version of yourself just by being who they are. Their existence is your inspiration.
— Toni Sorenson
They make friends, they laugh, they shareThey stay in touch, they care.
— Christina Engela, Other Kids Are Kids Almost Just Like You
All the magicians have 52 mutual friends.
— Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
He pictured himself at the lake, on a houseboat. Dekka would be there, and Brianna and Jack. He would have friends. He wouldn’t be alone.But he couldn’t stop himself from looking for her.She no longer had Little Pete to worry about. They could be together without all of that. But of course he knew Astrid, and knew that right now, wherever she was, she was eaten up inside with guilt.“She’s not coming, is she?” Sam said to Dekka.But Dekka didn’t answer. She was somewhere else in her head. Sam saw her glance and look away as Brianna laid a light hand on Jack’s shoulder.Dahra was staying in the hospital, but a few more kids came. Groups of three or four at a time. The Siren and the kids she lived with came. John Terrafino came. Ellen. He waited. He would wait the full two hours. Not for her, he told himself, just to keep his word.Then Orc, with Howard.Sam groaned inwardly.“You gotta be kidding me,” Brianna said.“The deal was kids make a choice,” Sam said. “I think Howard just realized how dangerous life can be for a criminal living in a place where the ‘king’ can decide life or death.
— Michael  Grant, Plague
Quinn came forward and Sam pulled him aside. His old friend looked tortured and sad.“What’s up, brah?” Sam asked.Quinn couldn’t speak. He was choked with emotion. “Dude . . .”“You want to stay in town.”“My crews . . . my boats and all . . .”Sam put a hand on his shoulder. “Quinn, I’m glad you found something so important to do. Something you really like.”“Yeah, but . . .”Sam pulled him into a brief hug. “You and me, we’re still friends, man. But you have responsibilities.
— Michael  Grant, Plague
She had platonic all but tattooed on her forehead.
— Kelly Moran, Tracking You
Look, I’ve already fucked you twice. You don’t have to flatter me. Besides, I love my friends way too much to trade them in for the sake of looking hotter.”“Seriously?”“Yeah. I mean, Casey has been my best friend since, like, forever, and she’s the most loyal person I’ve ever met. And Jessica… well, she has no idea about me and her brother. We weren’t friends back then. In fact, I didn’t want to know her after Jake and I split, but Casey said it would be good for me, and she was right… as usual. Jessica can be a little ditsy, but she’s the sweetest, most innocent person I know. I could never give either of them up just to look good. That’d make me a real dumbass.”“Then they’re lucky to have you.”“I just said not to flatter-”“I’m being honest.” Wesley frowned at the mirror. “I have only one friend-one real friend. Harrison is the only guy who will be seen with me, and that’s because we aren’t trying to attract the same audience, if you know what I mean.” A small smile spread across his lips when he turned to face me. “Most people will do anything to avoid being the Duff.”“Well, I guess I’m not most people.
— Kody Keplinger, The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend
It's amazing how willingly one can tell to a new face, and how restrained one may be from telling a familiar one.
— Lauren Lola, An Absolute Mind
When you have everything in life, you have friends, when you have nothing, you have true friends. The fact that somebody is close to you does mean they are your friend. Be wise!
— Oscar Bimpong
Santi and Wolfe exchanged a look. Wolfe inclined his head a little to the side, with a strange, crooked smile. "You see? They're as bad as we are.""Worse," Santi sighed.
— Rachel Caine, Paper and Fire
My friends don't think they're rich, because they know someone who's richer.
— Craig Groeschel, Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working
Two friends... let's put them place... they have never been in jail, give them a knife some reasonable conflicts some doubts and watch the effect.
— Deyth Banger
Some friends give bad advice because they live a bad life.
— Errol Anthony Smythe
At home in the nursery, I usually played alone. Actually, I seldom played, I spoke to the wallpaper. The many dark circles in the pattern of the wallpaper seemed like people to me. I made up stories in which they appeared, either I told them the stories or they played with me, I never got tired of the wallpaper people and I could talk to them for hours.
— Elias Canetti, Die gerettete Zunge: Geschichte einer Jugend
To be friends.... or not... to be or not... to be or not....
— Deyth Banger
I am never one to judge others; I am so eccentric myself that I have no right to cast aspersions. A person may or may not like a thing, and I have little to say other than I love it too or how could you dare not like it please die promptly, but I leave everyone to find their own niches in time. We are all avid about certain things; I happen to rave over many subjects, all of which have a place in the Kingdom of Nerdonia, and whenever I hear someone unjustly disparage a thing I consider sacred, I lay it down that the person is either mistaken or a dunderwhelp, the latter being the likeliest of the two. There is a great difference between knowledge accompanied by bias and ignorance accompanied by gallantry, and while all tastes may be what they are, there are bare necessities that will immediately define a character and relationship, these things usually being how many Monty Python lines one knows and whether or not they know what Iocaine is.The strength of lasting friendships rests on whether one can sing the theme to Neverending Story.
— Michelle Franklin
If I had to get there without friends, I could do it. Had been doing it. I'd never met anyone who brought me somewhere I wanted to stay, looked at me and saw someone I wanted to be for good; anyone who was worth giving up the more I wanted down the line.
— Tana French, The Secret Place
Maybe consequences are dear friends in stealthy disguise.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
I am often amused and sometimes amazed by the free-reign constructs of my mind. That is why I converse regularly with myself - I am one of my better friends...
— Gavin Mills
Keep your circle of friends small, tight and right
— Levon Peter Poe
Downfall, failure and death cannot be far from any man who made counterfeit friends his ally and support.
— Bamigboye Olurotimi
Everyone knows a wife and kids tie you down. What people miss sometimes is that mates, the proper kind, they do the same just as hard. Mates mean you've settled, made your bargain: this, wherever you are together, this is as far as you're going, ever. This is your stop; this is where you get off.
— Tana French, The Secret Place
Doesn't need help of friends to climb to the peak, the need to have lofty aspirations.
— Tanmaya Guru
Knowing who you are is more valuable than having ten 'friends' who don't even know who they are, but who judge you anyway.
— Christina Engela, Loderunner
Something now leaves me; something goes from me to meet that figure who is coming, and assures me that I know him before I see who it is. How curiously one is changed by the addition, even at a distance, of a friend. How useful an office one's friends perform when they recall us. Yet how painful to be recalled, to be mitigated, to have one's self adulterated, mixed up, become part of another. As he approaches I become not myself but Neville mixed with somebody - with whom? - with Bernard? Yes, it is Bernard, and it is to Bernard that I shall put the question, Who am I?
— Virginia Woolf, The Waves
A man dies as often as he loses his friends.
— Francis Bacon
Protect me from my friendsI can take care of my enemies
— Lil Wayne
Charles Schwab: Be friends with everybody. When you have friends you will know there is somebody who will stand by you. You know the old saying, that if you have a single enemy you will find him everywhere. It doesn’t pay to make enemies. Lead the life that will make you kind and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will live.
— John C. Maxwell, The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization
It's like a blueberry White Russian,' John said, now on his third spoonful.'It tastes exactly the same,' Mike said, his teeth already bright blue.'No, no, it tastes better,' John said. 'I feel like it's making me stronger.
— Eric Spitznagel, Old Records Never Die: One Man's Quest for His Vinyl and His Past
Kayla jumped down off of the monkey bars. I thought she was going to apologize. Instead, she pointed at Becky and laughed as hard as she could.My blood boiled. I glared at her so hard that I thought that lasers would shoot out of my eyes and burn a hole through her. Without thinking, I stood up, walked over to Kayla, and slapped her across the face as hard as I could. I had never hit anyone who wasn’t my brother and sister, and I had never hit them as hard as I hit her. My hand stung. I grabbed it and held it between my knees. Kayla squealed, grabbed her face, and ran home. Ashley just looked at me. I reached for Becky, helped her to her feet, and we ran to our house.- The Castle Park Kids
— Laura Smith
The next morning, I woke up to hear Becky moaning and rustling around in her bed covers.“I’m so itchy!” she cried.“So scratch!” I said, groggily, but suddenly, I felt itchy too. So, I started scratching my legs. They felt better until I stopped scratching. Then, it started to burn. I threw back the covers and saw that my legs were covered in red bumps.“My legs!” I yelled.Becky looked over at me. Then, she pulled back her covers. Her legs were even worse. She gasped.“Mom!” I cried.Mom came in. She was ready for work, wearing her dress shirt and gym shorts. She only had to dress up the top half of her body in case she had to use her webcam to talk to her boss.“What is it?” she asked.“Look!” I said, showing her our legs.“Oh no! That’s poison ivy!” she cried, “Where were you guys playing yesterday?” “The woods,” I said.“You must have been sitting in it,” she said.- The Castle Park Kids
— Laura Smith
people who ran away are friends!
— Bilal Tanweer, The Scatter Here Is Too Great
I want we to be friends, not to follow you.I want you to stop the lies, it's not awesome.
— Deyth Banger
Friends for life?Why? How long have I got?
— Christina Engela, Demonspawn
She was at the same table near the back where three nights ago I'd sat entranced by her songs. And where the two of us had talked like old friends.
— Mike Bond, Killing Maine
Green light,” she called, and I watched Becky run ahead until she was just a few inches from Michelle. Kayla was right next to her. Just as she reached out to tag Michelle, Kayla pushed into Becky’s back hard, and Becky flew forward.I gasped. Michelle turned around as Kayla tagged her arm. Becky fell at Michelle’s feet. She wrapped her arms around Michelle’s legs to catch herself. Michelle fell forward onto her knees, and Becky bumped her mouth against Michelle’s shoe.“Time!” I called, stopping the game.“Sis, you all right?” Heather asked Michelle.Michelle didn’t answer. She looked at Becky who was on her knees, staring at the ground. “You okay?” I asked Becky.She started to cry. I didn’t know if she really was hurt or just looking for attention. I sighed and looked away, waiting for her to start screaming her head off.Luke ran over to us. He looked at her, pointed, and cried, “Beck, you’re bleeding!”I looked up. Blood was trickling out of her mouth. She gasped. I glared at Luke for scaring her. He closed his mouth. Becky opened hers wider.“Kayla, why are you such a little brat?” asked Michelle, slapping off the grass stuck to her knees. “It was an accident!” Kayla insisted.“Yeah right!” Michelle yelled, “You just wanted to win! It’s just a game!” Kayla stood there looking guilty. I looked at Becky and noticed that one of her teeth was missing. I looked down, found a piece of white on the ground, and picked it up with my thumb and pointer finger. It was Becky’s tooth.“Becky, look!” I said, holding it up, “You lost your first tooth!”- The Castle Park Kids
— Laura Smith
If I have friends how come I always feel alone?
— Sally Green, Half Lost
[Carmen] knew a worse friend would have made her feel better.
— Ann Brashares, The Second Summer of the Sisterhood
I’d never have predicted I would lose touch with him – before, that is, I did. I thought I had my reasons. But it turns out that they weren’t good reasons. It turns out that you should never lose contact with the people who are supposed to be important in your life. There is no excuse in doing that.
— Sarah Moore Fitzgerald, The Apple Tart of Hope
The patches are the stories. Hold onto that. And the muddy zigzag of ducktape against the cracked doorglass. There's four kids who sleep here, a nuff for the fingers on each otherses hands. There's room in each of them for one important thing. They're a band. It's not they're in a band. They're a band. Four spikes of ducktape, up and down, like mountain peaks or a sawblade. Every band's got a sign, something to sew on your jacket, gouge on the wall at a show. Four spikes up and down say MEATHEADS, and you picked a fucked window to knock at, tourist. They're the best band in the world.
— Noah  Wareness
The ones who lived, who truly lived, they make an imprint on our lives. They leave their mark in our hearts. They change the course of our fates and our destinies. Those are the real heroes. The ones who cared enough for a human being that they rewrote their futures.”- Alastor Moody
— Mordred, Forever Alive
Troubles often decides your deepest friends,but deepest friend will never decide to put you into trouble.
— Bradley B. Dalina
I beg your pardon." Tameka held up her hand and shook her head in disbelief. "Did we just get passed by a centaur?""We got passed by a group of them," Ran corrected.Beckit grinned at Tameka. "Goodbye Kansas, hello Oz.""Amen to that, sister.
— M.A. Wilder, Armored
To me, re-reading my favorite books is like spending time with my best friends.I’d never be satisfied to limit myself to just one experience each with my favorite people.
— C.S. Lewis
Bill was wrestling with his undercooked chicken. "Wow," I remarked while examining my own plate. "I don't think I can eat this." "I know. It's gross," he conceded. "But it's free, so I scarf down seconds each night." "As a dog returneth to his vomit," I said, while making the sign of the cross in the air in front of me. "Amen," he agreed with his mouth full, and toasted me with his 7Up can.
— Hope Jahren, Lab Girl
After all we have few friends, if we don't show that we care about them, we will reach 0 friends...
— Deyth Banger
Don't allow anyone to hold you back from expressing your feelings. Maybe you just can't stand a chance of losing some friends, but if you must be truly you, you must be you! Nothing else!
— Michael Bassey Johnson, Master of Maxims
Being honest may not get you a lot of friends it’ll get you the right ones
— John Lennon
Aleks opened his mouth to reassure his friend when he heard something that chilled him to the bone.“Aleksander Aaron Arkadion! What in the hell is wrong with you! Why are you dragging that mangled corpse through town? You traumatized an entire first-grade class on a field trip to the town center,” Ma said, striding up to them pointing down to the body that Aleks still had a hold of.He looked down at the ankle he was holding.“Fuck my life.” Aleks looked behind his ma at the trail of blood heading back to the ice cream parlor.Liam laughed, his arms wrapped around his waist holding his sides.
— Alanea Alder, Fated for Forever
If you let life pass you by now, it won't ever come back. You don't get another chance.
— Danielle Steel
when they asked me : why you still you use this old photo?my answer : photo? it's not a simple photo, it's a cover of a book that i can remember his story, page by page.
— Nabil TOUSSI
Everyday we can't connect but GOOD THINGS may be connected
— Hitesh Chorada
The real friends are out there on you won, on your lost and on your special days. If they aren't there, take it like they aren't your friends, find other friends. This are fake!
— Deyth Banger
One of the parrots was very friendly with...Master of the Robes. He used to feed it nuts. As it nibbled from his fingers, he used to stroke its head, at which the bird appeared to enter a state of ecstasy. I very much wanted this kind of friendliness and several times tried to get a similar response, but to no avail. So I took a stick to punish it. Of course, thereafter it fled at the sight of me. This was a very good lesson in how to make friends: not by force but by compassion.
— Dalai Lama XIV, Freedom in Exile: The Autobiography of the Dalai Lama
Every connection you create either helps or hurts you
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
You can tell a good friends in bad times
— Beta Metani' Marashi
This woman is so didactic I think I may scream. If it's bleeding, bandage it. If it's crying, hug it. If it's hopeless, pray for it. If it's dead, resurrect it.
— Rachel Allord, The Ground Beneath Us
I saw a guy faint at the W. M. Keck Observatory, he stepped out from the tour group and said to me "I'm feeling sick" and then his eyes rolled back and his knees gave way! The group caught him on his way to the ground and he got free emergency medical oxygen for half an hour before being evacuated off the summit by his tour group!!! His friends stated that he was considered the healthiest person in the group while he was gasping for breaths of life on the summit of Mauna Kea! Never saw him again.
— Steven Magee
If you can learn something from that person add him in your list if you can't ignore him.
— Deyth Banger
Everyone who I called my friends, persons who I used to hang out with, these were the individuals who formed and made up the gang known as the Rebellion Raiders. So when the gang was formed I was automatically a part of it, because it was formed by my friends. I didn’t have to go out and join the gang. Troit Lynes, former death row inmate of Her Majesty Prison in the Bahamas
— Drexel Deal, The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father
Poverty has deceived many of us into believing that some people who are in that state love the food, clothes, places, and people that they do not even like. The same can be said about wealth.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
If you want to be in my life offer me the best of your time , not the one when you have nothing to do ; offer the best of your self and i'll do the same for you.
— Robin Dabhi
Walking with my doggy is so much fun! And she makes me laugh, she makes me run. Licking she likes to make some good new friends, Kindly enough with cyclists who spin with no end.
— Ana Claudia Antunes, ACross Tic
Please don't obsess on the number of friends i have or don't have. I'll find my own way, it will be right for me.
— Tina J. Richardson, I didnt mean it that way
If somebody is going to kill me or hurt me..., let's be the enemy not my friends!
— Deyth Banger
Sometimes I feel that what used to be once casual conversations between friends are now being substituted with forced conversations containing none of the warmth it possessed earlier. It's better to not have any conversation at all than have forced conversations.
— Adhish Mazumder
Friends??The people which are hypocrites and the people which you rought and hard you deal with them,
— Deyth Banger
Who'd have thoght I could miss someone I've never actually met? Me. I've thought that. I miss tons of things I've never seen, and now you most of all.
— Leah Thomas
Asha stared as Mari for a while, her face once again betraying no emotions. "When we were acolytes, newly come to the Mage Guild Hall on Ihris, Mage Alain once tried to catch me as I fell. He was punished for this." Her gaze went to Alain. "We talked. In the first days. Before such things were driven from us. He was...he could have been...someone...""A friend," Alain said."Friend." Asha seemed to be looking inward now, as if searching for memories lost in time. "What does this mean?"Alain's voice took on more feeling. "It is someone who helps.""Helps?" Asha suddenly inhaled strongly. "I remember. When all else was gone...Alain...helps...helped...me.""We were taught to forget this," Alain said. "Master Mechanic Mari reminded me of what it meant. She has reminded me of many things. She must do something of great importance. Will you help me now, Mage Asha?"Here gaze rested on Alain, then went back to Mari. "This Mechanic helps Mage Alain. I will help, too. I will not betray you to the Guild, Mage Alain.
— Jack Campbell, The Hidden Masters of Marandur
Success affects the number of friends you have infinitely more than how the number of friends you have affects your success.
— Tiffany L. Jackson, 12 Keys to Success for Misfits, Weirdos & Introverts: A Practical and Spiritual Guide to Understanding Your Place in the World
Us is my favorite people.
— Rick Riordan, The House of Hades
choose your friends as wise as you choose your words in conversations (Ejump,2016)
— Ejump Schiffler
Did you call me here just to deliver this monologue? Did I need to be here?
— Molly Ringle, Immortal's Spring
When you meet a person as good-hearted as a child, don't ever be selfish, just give them your best and you will become great friends.
— Diana Jaber
It's a discomfiting thing to have the person you love more than anything in the world toss a knife at your friend's head and walk away.
— Cecily White, Conspiracy Boy
Under friends I just understand people which share the same ideas and thoughts which will mean.... Ops my mistake... I was just looking are you following or you like because of the crowd?
— Deyth Banger
Good friends, very good what's the equation motherfucker???
— Deyth Banger
It’s interesting how we can connect so deeply with friends so different from ourselves. In fact, perhaps it’s these differences ultimately bonding us the most. The opportunity to expand our horizons.
— Brownell Landrum, Repercussions: DUET stories Volume IV - Adult Version
Being Friends with you was great but now we will be lovers.
— V.Kuotsu
Being friends with you was great but now we will be both friends and lovers.
— V.Kuotsu
Why, you mean you didn't get abducted and dragged across country purely to make us a story for us to chew over endlessly?" asked Pip, tossing his shock of tow-colored hair indignantly. "The nerve!
— Mercedes Lackey, Bastion
Friends are like sails – they help shield us against storms and provide the force that helps direct us on course. Friends enhance our lives in many ways: they listen to us when we need someone to talk to
—  they support us when we feel vulnerable
True friends are like diamonds. They shine for you even on the darkest days.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar
— Robert Brault
As much as he liked the idea of having best friends with whom he could share anything. it was like all he knew how to be was alone, apart.
— Madeleine Roux, Asylum
When I was in junior high school, I used to think that Disney's 1990's paranormal television program 'So Weird' was every kid's ideal life - not going to school, living on a tour bus, having rockstar parents, traveling all over North America and never staying in one place for more than a week or so. Of course, eventually the realization hits you that the kids out there who really do live like this, pulling up stakes every week and never staying with their friends or having a permanent residence, aren't really happy.
— Rebecca McNutt
I know you’re in there, Mercedes,” Faye says. “I can see your dirty Converse shoes. You really should get a new pair.”“Did you see it?” I croak. “If you saw it, you probably saw a lot more of me. You probably shouldn’t be seen talking to me. And I should probably switch schools.”“That’s the thing,” Faye says, stopping right outside the stall door and rapping on the metal with her fist.“What’s the thing?” I say, pushing my shoe against the toilet paper dispenser, making no move to let her in.“I never was any good at doing what people tell me.”And like that, her head appears under the stall door, followed by her body. She pulls herself in and wipes her hands on her jeans.I raise my eyebrows. “You know how disgusting that floor is?” I say. “Janitorial service at this school leaves a lot to be desired.”She cocks her head and puts her hands on her hips. She looks like what I imagine a stern parent would look like, not that I know from experience. I wonder if she got that posture from Lydia.“First of all, you didn’t let me in, so I had no choice.
— Laurie Elizabeth Flynn, Firsts
I used to think to myself that I was the last kind of person who should have a guardian angel, but then I realized that maybe my type of person is the kind who angels come to first.
— Rebecca McNutt, Shadowed Skies: The Third Smog City Novel
Many people seek popularity and want everyone to know their name. It’s not important for everyone to know your name, it’s important that some of the people you know don’t forget your name.
— Ron Baratono
Friend's future is all yours, but past is ours, we lived it together.
— Nikhil Karke
Greg: Scott, great horde.My realization was that I could never *actually* live a life where I had to be constantly doing things like praising a dude's horde.So that made me feel better about myself.
— Jesse Andrews, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Maybe it's for good what has happen, maybe it's not for good. Nobody knows, but don't ruin your day thinking about this sad event (The Dead). In the film "The Night Before", the same thing happen, but it went to something new and wonderful, marvelous how??The friends become best friends, parties, loads fun. This is all what we need!
— Deyth Banger
At the end of the day, all I have to cherish are human relationships. Your worldly wealth you can't take away with you, your life has been lived. It is the friends you have made, your family ties, which sustain your spirit with a certain warmth and comfort.-LKY at 80: 80 quotes from a life (2003)
— LKY on LIFE
In times of your need, you will know your true friends.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Let's do this and this to see the consequences, who is real friend and who isn't. Who understands you and who doesn't!
— Deyth Banger
Friends are better than a lot of wealth.
— joannellie eleeza
Truth can win you many enemies, but it also rewards you with some die-hard friends
— Alok Jagawat
Sandra.”“Thomas, I….”“You called.” He sounded concerned.“Yes, I….”“Why are you calling? Are you harmed?”“No….”“Are you rescheduling our Saturday lunch?”“No….”“Is this an emergency?”“Stop asking questions and just listen.”“Why are you calling?”I sighed, rolled my eyes. This was why I never called Thomas. “I need your help.”“Do you need money?”“Thomas, I swear, if you ask me another question, I will secretly switch your caffeinated with decaf during Saturday lunch at least three times over the next six months.”I could tell he was thinking about my threat, weighing it against the compulsion of his curiosity. Belatedly he said, “Proceed
— Penny Reid
I may be small, but I've got friends that make me ten feet tall.
— Mickey Mouse
A best friend is someone that will stand in your storm and tell you the lightening is beautiful just to make you realize that your heart was worth getting soaked.
— Shannon L. Alder
Friends will always be there for the party. REAL friends will be there after the party...
— Bray Love
I only want to be famous to my friends.book: stuff i think about
— Sondra Faye
Good friends laugh at you, laugh with you, but never laugh behind your back.
— Saru Singhal
When you truly love someone, you can’t just be their friend.
— Berry Quotes
He’s more how Satan would look if he needed to seduce you into drowning a baby.
— Eve Dangerfield, Locked Box
A fake friend is someone that ridicules your feelings, steps on your emotions and gossips about you behind your back
— Karon Waddell
As we move away from the old role in which we were helplessly entrapped as a victim, we make friends with the people who affirm us. Their enthusiasm about us mirrors the positive experience we are having.
— Maureen Brady, Beyond Survival: A Writing Journey for Healing Childhood Sexual Abuse
Something that trash for me, might be diamond for you.
— Sohail Umar
The Puzzle Piece CharmTo A Life Filled with Friends Who Complete You
— Viola Shipman, The Charm Bracelet
I wanted to see Chameleons, Then I saw my friends!
— Sohail Umar
I can always win in Tic Tac toe for example one strategy can be used serveral times and one moment he will find that I'm using this strategy and in the other day he will forgot aobut this and I just repeat the same - But from this point of view it's kind a useless and taking time. I want to find new path ways, the same is with chess I can win always the same way but one moment it come the rule or the thought - hey I want this to return and I will give you to return. I hate this moment it's kind a noobish or kind a bot way!
— Deyth Banger
In any case, it is not love, but friendship, that truly eludes you.
— Michael Chabon
It’s hard to care for a person when you know that one more step forward will make you fall in love and one step back ruins your friendship.
— Berry Quotes
What are the differences between me and you, I stand up and continue you just stay down and don't move and you think that nobody will touch. But when you are down, you always easy to be attacked - You will find down "IT" :D :D
— Deyth Banger
Who can find a faithful friend?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Today, some chess games can't go in 40 minutes. One game not every time can finish fast, sometimes it's difficult to win and the ways are odd.
— Deyth Banger
I soon had to admit that what I did by myself couldn't excite me, only what Lila touched became important.
— Elena Ferrante
Charles Kindleberger explained the self-perpetuating feeding frenzy that develops when speculators start making money: 'There is nothing so to one's well-being and judgment as to see a friend get rich.
— Zac Bissonnette, The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute
We used to be best friends but the first time I saw you, my heart beats fast like my happiness can never be surpassed. I don’t know why but if I lost you promise I will always cry.
— Berry Quotes
The day I found my smile again was when I stood in my own storm and danced with my tribe.
— Shannon L. Alder
We stay watching the fire, which probably is just a fire, but we watch it together. Me and my friends. And there'll be a tomorrow, of course there will, when it all begins again, but right now is almost a kind of loop for me, something to feel on the inside of, but this time it's good. It's a loop with my friends that would even be a pretty damn good forever.
— Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here