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Wherever I go, I'll always see you. You'll always be with me. And there's no happy ending coming here, no way a story that started on a night that's burned into my heart will end the way I wish it could. You're really gone, no last words, and no matter how many letters I write to you, you're never going to reply. You're never going to say good-bye. So I will. Good-bye, Julia. Thank you for being my friend. Thank you for being you.
— Elizabeth Scott, Love You Hate You Miss You
If one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends. 
— Dean Koontz, Forever Odd
I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12 - Jesus, did you?
— Stephen King, Different Seasons
If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren't your friends.
— Marilyn Manson
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I need a new friend. I need a friend, period. Not a true friend, nothing close or share clothes or sleepover giggle giggle yak yak. Just a pseudo-friend, disposable friend. Friend as accessory. Just so I don't feel or look so stupid.
— Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak
A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals the secret of some hidden treasure.
— Dalai Lama XIV
To exact revenge for yourself or your friends is not only a right, it's an absolute duty.
— Stieg Larsson
Fake friends are like shadows: always near you at your brightest moments, but nowhere to be seen at your darkest hourTrue friends are like stars, you don't always see them but they are always there.
— Habeeb Akande
If you go out looking for friends, you're going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.
— Zig Ziglar
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
— Aristotle
You will evolve past certain people. Let yourself.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends!
— Charlotte Brontë, The Letters of Charlotte Brontë
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
What If Following Her HeartMeans Rose Could Lose Her Best Friend Forever?
— Richelle Mead, Shadow Kiss
Every gathering has its moment. As an adult, I distract myself by trying to identify it, dreading the inevitable downswing that is sure to follow. The guests will repeat themselves one too many times, or you'll run out of dope or liquor and realize that it was all you ever had in common.
— David Sedaris, Naked
When Ronan thought of Gansey, he thought of moving into Monmouth Manufacturing, of nights spent in companionable insomnia, of a summer searching for a king, of Gansey asking the Gray Man for his life. Brothers.
— Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves
Hey, and for what it's worth? Friends don't leave you alone in the woods. Friends are the ones who come and take you out.
— Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key
I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft...
— Jim Morrison
Cammie!" I'll never forget the tone of Macey's voice in that moment. "Cam," she said slowly, moving toward me, "I know how it feels to be watched every second of every day. I know what it's like to trust fewer and fewer people until it seems like you are completely alone in the world. I know you think the only things that are left in your life are the bad things. I know what you're feeling, Cam." Her hands were on my shoulders. Her blue eyes were staring into mine. "I know.
— Ally Carter, Only the Good Spy Young
We hang out, we help one another, we tell one another our worst fears and biggest secrets, and then just like real sisters, we listen and don't judge.
— Adriana Trigiani, Viola in Reel Life
This is what happens. You tell your friends your most personal secrets, and they use them against you.
— Sophie Kinsella, Shopaholic Ties the Knot
I have no talent for making new friends, but oh such genius for fidelity to old ones.
— Daphne du Maurier
When time passes, it's the people who knew you whom you want to see; they're the ones you can talk to. When enough time passes, what's it matter what they did to you?
— John Irving, The Cider House Rules
To live fully, we must learn to use things and love people, and not love things and use people.
— John Powell
Eternity is a long time to spend alone, without others of your kind.
— Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels
My troubles are all over, and I am at home; and often before I am quite awake, I fancy I am still in the orchard at Birtwick, standing with my friends under the apple trees.
— Anna Sewell, Black Beauty
I take it we're friends now," Henry said. "We must be," Gansey replied. "Jane says it should be so.""It should be so," Blue agreed.
— Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King
A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
— Alfred Tennyson
A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.
— Douglas Pagels
Sometimes since I've been in the garden I've looked up through the trees at the sky and I have had a strange feeling of being happy as if something was pushing and drawing in my chest and making me breathe fast. Magic is always pushing and drawing and making things out of nothing. Everything is made out of magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us. In this garden - in all the places.
— Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
No person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to be so alone. There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep, and still be counted as warriors.
— Adrienne Rich, Sources
When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy--that it is builded upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.
— Mark Twain
Friends don't menace friends with giant terrifying swords, okay?
— Sarah Rees Brennan, The Demon's Covenant
One problem with being a leader, is that even among your friends you are alone, for it is you -- and you alone -- to whom the others look for final guidance.
— Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society
Have you ever felt really close to someone? So close that you can't understand why you and the other person have two separate bodies, two separate skins?
— Nancy Garden, Annie on My Mind
Friends may come and go but enemies accumulate.
— Jayne Ann Krentz, In Too Deep
Sometimes, it's better to bunk a class and enjoy with friends, because now, when I look back, marks never make me laugh, but memories do.
— A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Choose your friends and mates, not by the money in their bank account, creed, ethnicity, or color; instead, choose character, actions, heart, and soul. When we bleed, we bleed the same color.
— Ana Monnar
Noble dragons don't have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still alive.
— Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
You should be nicer to him,' a schoolmate had once said to me of some awfully ill-favored boy. 'He has no friends.' This, I realized with a pang of pity that I can still remember, was only true as long as everybody agreed to it.
— Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
Somewhere between a friend and acquaintance—a frequaintance, as it were.
— Rachel Cohn, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
They say that only very good friends quarrel. But at the end of the day a quarrel is a fight between two people’s egos. Since people cannot understand each other by just being honest. May be its impossible to live your whole life without getting hurt but don’t hurt the people close to you.
— Ai Yazawa
In the first place it's not true that people improve as you know them better: they don't. That's why one should only have acquaintances and never make friends. An acquaintance shows you only the best of himself, he's considerate and polite, he conceals his defects behind a mask of social convention; but we grow so intimate with him that he throws the mask aside, get to know him so well that he doesn't trouble any longer to pretend; then you'll discover a being of such meanness, of such trivial nature, of such weakness, of such corruption, that you'd be aghast if you didn't realize that that was his nature and it was just as stupid to condemn him as to condemn the wolf because he ravens or the cobra because he strikes.
— W. Somerset Maugham, Christmas Holiday
Sometmes when you pull knives on people, they get this impression that you're going to hurt them, and then they're completely terrified. Crazy, I know!""Okay," said Nick. He turned to Jamie & popped his left wrist sheath again. "Look."Jamie backed up. "Which part of 'completely terrified' did you translate as 'show us your knives, Nick'? Don't show me your knives, Nick. I have no interest in your knives."Nick rolled his eyes. "This is a quillon dagger. That's a knife with a sword handle. I like it because it has a good grip for stabbing.""Why do you say these things?" Jamie inquired piteously. "Is it to make me sad?""I didn't have you cornered," Nick went on. "You could've run. And this dagger doesn't have an even weight distribution; it's absolute rubbish for throwing. If I had any intention of hurting you, I'd have used a knife I could throw."Jamie blinked. "I will remember those words always. I may try to forget them, but I sense that I won't be able to.
— Sarah Rees Brennan, The Demon's Covenant
We always see the worst in our selves. Our most volnerable selves. We need someone to get close enough to tell us that we're wrong. Someone we trust.
— Rachel Cohn, Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List
Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you're fighting moodiness and depression you don't want to hang around a bunch of other moody and depressed people.
— Joyce Meyer
I understand how difficult it is, putting your heart in someone else’s hands. But, if you don’t, how will you ever truly know a person?
— Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn
In the city fields Contemplating cherry-trees...Strangers are like friends
— Kobayashi Issa, Japanese Haiku
You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.
— Laurence J. Peter
After an awkward pause, Bast extended his hand. Chronicler hesitated for a bare moment before reaching out quickly, as if he were sticking his hand into a fire. Nothing happened, both of them seemed moderately surprised."Amazing, isn't it?" Kvothe addressed them bitingly. "Five fingers and flesh with blood beneath. One could almost believe that on the other end of that hand lay a person of some sort.
— Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
The only reward of virtue is virtue
—  the only way to have a friend is to be one.
My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
— Lee Iacocca
Because I know you, Percy Jackson. In many ways, you are impulsive, but when it comes to your friends, you are as constant as a compass needle. You are unswervingly loyal, and you inspire loyalty. You are the glue that will unite the seven.
— Rick Riordan, The Son of Neptune
But what Mom never told me is that along the way, you find sisters, and they find you. Girls are cool that way.
— Adriana Trigiani, Viola in Reel Life
Gracious acceptance is an art - an art which most never bother to cultivate. We think that we have to learn how to give, but we forget about accepting things, which can be much harder than giving.... Accepting another person's gift is allowing him to express his feelings for you.
— Alexander McCall Smith, Love Over Scotland
There were rules among friends, commandments, really, and the most important one was Thou Shalt Not Lust After Thy Friend's Sister.
— Julia Quinn, The Duke and I
And things were back to normal except we were just friends.
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes.
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place.
— Frank Herbert
There was a smile dancing on his lips, although it was a wary smile, for the world is a bigger place than a little graveyard on a hill; and there would be dangers in it and mysteries, new friends to make, old friends to rediscover, mistakes to be made and many paths to be walked before he would, finally, return to the graveyard or ride with the Lady on the broad back of her great grey stallion.
— Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
Yet Byron never made tea as you do, who fill the pot so that when you put the lid on the tea spills over. There is a brown pool on the table--it is running among your books and papers. Now you mop it up, clumsily, with your pocket-hankerchief. You then stuff your hankerchief back into your pocket--that is not Byron; that is so essentially you that if I think of you in twenty years' time, when we are both famous, gouty and intolerable, it will be by that scene: and if you are dead, I shall weep.
— Virginia Woolf, The Waves
I got bored," he says. "Besides, you know what's creepier than walking around your dead brothers' apartment? Sitting alone in a hearse in front of his apartment.
— Holly Black, Red Glove
As I have learned over the years, your friends don’t change; you just learn to ignore or embrace the bad bits.
— Carrie Adams, The Godmother
Are we friends? or are we foes? ... That kind of thing... You decide... For yourselves!!!
— Eiichirō Oda
My friend, I am not what I seem. Seeming is but a garment I wear-a care-woven garment that protects me from thy questionings and thee from my negligence. The “I” in me, my friend, dwells in the house of silence, and therein it shall remain for ever more, unperceived, unapproachable. I would not have thee believe in what I say nor trust in what I do-for my words are naught but thy own thoughts in sound and my deeds thy own hopes in action. When thou sayest, “The wind bloweth eastward,” I say, “Aye it doth blow eastward”; for I would not have thee know that my mind doth not dwell upon the wind but upon the sea. Thou canst not understand my seafaring thoughts, nor would I have thee understand. I would be at sea alone. When it is day with thee, my friend, it is night with me; yet even then I speak of the noontide that dances upon the hills and of the purple shadow that steals its way across the valley; for thou canst not hear the songs of my darkness nor see my wings beating against the stars-and I fain would not have thee hear or see. I would be with night alone. When thou ascendest to thy Heaven I descend to my Hell-even then thou callest to me across the unbridgeable gulf, “My companion, my comrade,” and I call back to thee, “My comrade, my companion”-for I would not have thee see my Hell. The flame would burn thy eyesight and the smoke would crowd thy nostrils. And I love my Hell too well to have thee visit it. I would be in Hell alone. Thou lovest Truth and Beauty and Righteousness; and I for thy sake say it is well and seemly to love these things. But in my heart I laughed at thy love. Yet I would not have thee see my laughter. I would laugh alone. My friend, thou art good and cautious and wise; nay, thou art perfect-and I, too, speak with thee wisely and cautiously. And yet I am mad. But I mask my madness. I would be mad alone. My friend, thou art not my friend, but how shall I make thee understand? My path is not thy path, yet together we walk, hand in hand.
— Kahlil Gibran, The Madman
One of life's challenging realizations is that sometimes you outgrow your friends.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
My Heart is Bounding! I can fly anywhere as long as I'm with the Nakama I Love!!!"~Leevy
— Hiro Mashima, フェアリーテイル 15 [Fearī Teiru 15]
As a matter of fact, we are none of us above criticism; so let us bear with each other's faults.
— L. Frank Baum, The Marvelous Land of Oz
I started to walk away, but she [Clarisse] called out, "Percy?""Yeah?""When you, uh, had that vision about your friends...""You were one of them," I promised, "Just don't tell anybody, okay? Or I'de have to kill you."A faint smile flickered across her face "See you later.""See you
— Rick Riordan, The Demigod Files
Hold on little girlShow me what he's done to youStand up little girlA broken heart can't be that badWhen it's through, it's through Fate will twist the both of you So come on baby come on over Let me be the one to show you
— Mr. Big
I survive at the edge of friends circles.
— Holly Black, Red Glove
...being in a bad mood with your friends beats being in a bad mood without them.
— John Green, Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances
Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends,for it is one of God's best gifts.
— Thomas Hughes
A person walks into a room and says hello, and your life takes a course for which you are not prepared. It's a tiny moment (almost-but not quite-unremarkable), the beginning of a hundred thousand tiny moments and some larger ones.
— Anita Shreve, Eden Close
What are friends for, if not to help bear our sins?
— Nella Larsen, The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and the Stories
The older you get, the more you realize you need a handful of good, close, tight friends.
— Nicole Richie
A true man loves his enemies as much he loves his friends.
— Santosh Kalwar
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
— Aristotle
Patience, friend. They're coming for you.
— Marissa Meyer, Winter
And everybody should have at least one person in his or her life who doesn't want a damned thing from them except a bit of friendly company
— Ed Howdershelt, 4th wish
There should be a little gap between you and your friends, though you'll miss their companionship and you'll also miss their disrespect.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Here's to our enduring sisterhood. May it bind us together more tightly that the Lycra in my Spanx underpants.
— Susan McBride, The Cougar Club
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a good man who stands up for his friends, but an honorable man who stands up for his enemies.
— Violet Haberdasher, The Secret Prince
That wasn't Josh Hartnett; that kid was eighteen years old," Kate said.I told you, they age slower out here. It's all the fresh California air," Val re
— Julie James, Just the Sexiest Man Alive
You can make more friends in two months by being interested in other people than in two years of trying to get people interested in you.
— Dale Carnegie
The sacred sense of beyond, of timelessness, of a world which had an eternal value and the substance of which was divine had been given back to me today by this friend of mine who taught me dancing.
— Hermann Hesse
I heard that when white folks go fishin they do somethin called 'catch and release.'Catch and release? I nodded solemnly, suddenly nervous and curious at the same time.'That really bothers me', Denver went on. 'I just can't figure it out. 'Cause when colored folks go fishin, we really proud of what we catch, and we take it and show it off to everybody that'll look. Then we eat what we catch...in other words, we use it to SUSTAIN us. So it really bothers me that white folks would go to all the trouble to catch a fish, when when they done caught it, just throw it back in the water.'He paused again, and the silence between us stretched a full minute. Then: 'Did you hear what I said?'I nodded, afraid to speak, afraid to offend.Denver looked away, searching the blue autumn sky, then locked onto me again with that drill-bit start. 'So, Mr. Ron, it occurred to me: If you is fishin for a friend you just gon' catch and release, then I ain't got no desire to be your friend.'I returned Denver's gaze with what I hoped was a receptive expression and hung on.Suddenly his eyes gentled and he spoke more softly than before: 'But if you is lookin for a REAL friend, then I'll be one. Forever.
— Ron Hall, Same Kind of Different as Me
Sadly for my wedding plans, I learned that Nestor is a bardash. I envy the men who enjoy his favors. He has always treated me with friendship which I now value more than my old romantic feelings.
— Tamora Pierce, Bloodhound
These people you used to see every day, friends or acquaintances, after a while they become as distant as any stranger, people you suddenly recall late at night--you remember something they said or something silly that someone once did. For a few moments they completely occupy your mind; then you forget them again.
— Stephen Dobyns, Eating Naked: Stories
He had once thought it was strange to have a friend you'd never met. Now it was even stranger, losing a friend you'd never really had
— Tad Williams, City of Golden Shadow
You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.
— Robert Henri, The Art Spirit: Notes, Articles, Fragments of Letters and Talks to Students, Bearing on the Concept and Technique of Picture Making, the Study of Art
Friends come in and out of our lives, like busboys in a restaurant.
— Stephen King
here's the thing about friends, I mean REAL friends: You can't just put up a poster at school and advertise for somebody and then hope you find the perfect one. It might work, I guess, but you'd look so pathetic and desperate that no one would want to be your friend, and so it would be kind of pointless
— Laura Preble, The Queen Geek Social Club
I'm not sure whether you're confident or delusional, but thanks anyway.
— Rachel Hawkins, Spell Bound
Friends might lose touch but never lose feelings
— Josh Stern, And That’s Why I’m Single
It took him a while to figure out that gaining an audience was not the same thing as gaining friends.
— Julia Scheeres, Jesus Land: A Memoir
If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
— George Eliot, Middlemarch
Even friends need private spaces, if only within the depths of their own souls, where no one else is allowed to intrude.
— Mary Balogh, Simply Magic
You need a place just a click over middle range. Don’t want to go all-out first time, but you don’t want to run on the cheap either. You want atmosphere, but not stuffy. A nice established place.”“Bob, you’re going to give me an ulcer.”“This is all ammunition, Cart. All ammo. You want to be able to order a nice bottle of wine. Oh, and after dinner, if she says how she doesn’t want dessert, you suggest she pick one and you’ll split it. Women love that. Sharing dessert’s sexy. Do not go on and on about your job over dinner. Certain death. Get her to talk about hers, and what she likes to do. Then—”“Should I be writing this down?
— Nora Roberts, Vision in White
Fai: *punches Kurogane* That was payback, Kuro-sama!Kurogane: *grins* You're gonna get punched out, you creep!
— CLAMP, ツバサ-RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE- 22
Take a moment think who would actually miss you if you deactivate all your social networking accounts, whatsapp, BBM etc
— Anamika Mishra
No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.
— Charles Caleb Colton
You don't know me, dude," he says, not smiling this time. Gonzo examines his cards, prepping for his next move. "People always think that they know other people, but they don't. Not really. I mean, maybe they know things about them, like they won't eat doughnuts or they like action movies or whatever. But they don't know what their friends do in their rooms alone at night or what happened to them when they were kids or if they feel ****ed up for no reason at all.
— Libba Bray, Going Bovine
The soul grows into lovely habits as easily as into ugly ones, and the moment a life begins to blossom into beautiful words and deeds, that moment a new standard of conduct is established, and your eager neighbors look to you for a continuous manifestation of the good cheer, the sympathy, the ready wit, the comradeship, or the inspiration, you once showed yourself capable of. Bear figs for a season or two, and the world outside the orchard is very unwilling you should bear thistles.
— Kate Douglas Wiggin, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend
— William Blake
I think they ought to know. You do them a disservice by not confiding something this important to them.”“I didn’t want —”“— to worry or frighten them?” said Dumbledore, surveying Harry over the top of his half-moon spectacles. “Or perhaps, to confess that you yourself are worried and frightened? You need your friends, Harry. As you so rightly said, Sirius would not have wanted you to shut yourself away.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
I think of how people can betray me simply by not caring enough to hide the fact of how little they care.I think of how the person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.
— Douglas Coupland
Why are you crying?" shivered the otter. "Because I am cold!" shouted the gnome. "Then why are you shouting?" chattered the otter. "Because," yelled the gnome, "when I shout it gets part of the cold from the inside out.
— Stephen Cosgrove, Gnome from Nome
A friend cannot be ownedThat is plain to seeFriendships must be shared, Just like our friend, Ruby
— Stephen Cosgrove, Rhubarb
But Lunch Isn't That Bad, ReallyOnce I get used tohaving to eat with two peopleinstead of one.Two people who have known each otherfor such a long timethat they practically speak in code.Two people who are always saying,"Remember the time when this happened?"and "Remember the time when that happened?"(Which, of course,I never do,because I wasn't there.)Well, okay,it is that bad.It sucks, even.
— Sonya Sones, What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know
Life is like a train ride. The passengers on the train are seemingly going to the same destination as you, but based on their belief in you or their belief that the train will get them to their desired destination they will stay on the ride or they will get off somewhere during the trip. People can and will get off at any stop. Just know that where people get off is more of an reflection on them, than it is on you. There will be a few people in your life that will make the whole trip with you, who believe in you, accept that you are human and that mistakes will be made along the way, and that you will get to your desired destination - together, no matter what. Be very grateful of these people.They are rare and when you find one, don't let go of them - ever. Be blessed for the ones who get on at the worst stops when no one is there. Remember those people, they are special. Always hold them dear to your heart. Be very wary of people sneaking on at certain stops when things are going good and acting like they have been there for the whole ride. For they will be the first to depart. There will be ones who secretly try to get off the ride and there will be those that very publicly will jump off. Don't pay any heed to the defectors. Pay heed to the passengers that are still on the trip. They are the important ones. If someone tries to get back on the train - don't be angry or hold a grudge, let them. Just see where they are around the next hard turn. If they are buckled in - accept them. If they are pulling the hand rail alarm again - then let them off the train freely and waste no space in your head for them again, ever. There will be times that the train will be moving slow, at almost a crawls pace. Appreciate that you can take in the view. There will be times where the train is going so fast that everything is a blur. Enjoy the sense of speed in your life, as it is exhilarating but unsustainable. There will also be the chance that the train derails. If that does happen, it will hurt, a lot, for a long time. But there will be people who will appear out of no where who will get you back on track. Those will be the people that will matter most in your life. Love them forever. For you can never repay these people. The thing is, that even if you could repay them, they wouldn't accept it anyway. Just pay it forward. Eventually your train will get to its final stop and you will need to deboard.At that time you will realize that life is about the journey AND the destination. Know and have faith that at the end of your ride your train will have the right passengers on board and all the passengers that were on board at one time or another were there for a distinct purpose. Enjoy the ride.
— JohnA Passaro
Dante.Oh,Dante.Seal me!Seal me so hard!”.He grabs my hips andpumps his toward mine.“Oh,Dante! You’re so hot when you seal souls.”I shove my idiot-of-a-best-friend off me and laugh.“What the hell was that?” I ask.“My new move.
— Victoria Scott, The Collector
Friends are the most important part of your life. Treasure the tears, treasure the laughter, but most importantly, treasure the memories.
— Dave Brenner
Sometimes duplicity and treason are markers of the enemy, and sometimes, the failed intention of a masterful ally. But, nevertheless, as they burden you with a vexing brand of love, they become nothing more than the kiss of Judas, pressing a crown of thorns into your flesh.
— Addison Moore, Vex
You're very lucky... Friends are precious, powerful things - hard to earn, harder still to keep. You should thank this one for taking a chance on you.
— N.K. Jemisin, The Broken Kingdoms
Watch over Honoria, will you? See that she doesn’t marry an idiot.
— Julia Quinn, Just Like Heaven
When I say 'friends,' I use that term loosely, as I don't actually have any.
— Stephan Pastis
Sometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time.
— Stephanie Seymour
Always there whom we believe shouldn't be and never are there whom we believe should be.
— Válgame, Zori 2ª Parte
Some people you can't be friends with, not when you've been something more. 
— Graham McNamee, Acceleration
If I don't see the reason of someone being my friend, chances are, we are just floating and I need a ship to set sail.
— Michael Bassey Johnson, Master of Maxims
May peace rule the universe
—  may peace rule in kingdoms and empires
We undress ourselves in many ways when we become close friends
— Andrews
The first time she carved something into her skin, she used the sharp tip of an X-Acto knife. She lifted up her shirt to show me after the cuts had scabbed over. She had scrawled F*** YOU on her stomach. I stood quiet for a moment, feeling the breath get knocked out of me. I should have grabbed her arm and taken her straight to the nurse's office, into that small room with two cots covered in paper sheets and the sweet, stale medicinal 
— Nina LaCour, Hold Still
She existed in her friends
—  there she was. All the parts of herself she'd forgotten. She knew herself best when she was with them.
I sometimes think that 'friend' is just a word I use for all the people I haven't murdered yet.
— Scott Lynch, Rogues
In making friends, she was wary of people who foster dependency and feed on it. She had been involved with a few--the blind attract them, and they are the enemy.
— Thomas Harris, Red Dragon
I have more online contacts than I can count. I make about one hundred connections a day. I have access to millions of people. I use to think that I had friends in these numbers. But virtual friends are like stars stretched out in the sky. They’re out there, they exist, and I can imagine what they’re like, but we’ll never meet. We all just co-exist in this vast universe with a length of space between us.
— Katie Kacvinsky, Awaken
It's shitty I guess. They're my friends. But... everything I want to talk about I can't say to them. It feels so separate, like I've touched something that's taken the color out of me.
— Kendare Blake, Anna Dressed in Blood
...that's what friends did. Let each other off the hook when they didn't want to talk.
— Lauren Dane, Taking Care of Business
Father, we come to You, Father, in the name of the Father, Father we come to You, Father, Father, just, just, Father, Father...' You don't talk to you friends like that. 'Ed, Ed, come over, Ed, Ed, Ed, you are, Ed, Ed, Ed, Ed, Ed, Ed, ooh, Ed, Ed, Ed' - he wouldn't be your friend anymore if you did that! Like, 'You keep saying Ed...my name's Joe!
— Tim Hawkins
We'll let our friends be the peacekeepers and the great country called America will be the pacemakers.
— George W. Bush
Take no duty of the Guard lightly. Friends must not be enemies Just as enemies must not be friends.Discerning the two is a life's work.
— David Petersen
In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world. 
— Henry David Thoreau
The word friend is a label anyone can try on. You decide who is best suited to wear it. Choose wisely. The most dangerous among us come dressed as angels and we learn too late they are the devil in disguise.
— Carlos Wallace, Life Is Not Complicated-You Are: Turning Your Biggest Disappointments Into Your Greatest Blessings
This was what I liked most about my friends: just sitting around and telling stories. Window stories and mirror stories. I only listened - the stories on my mind weren't that funny.
— John Green, Paper Towns
Ever since college, I make friends. They get married. I lose friends.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
Of course, if I eat all of him, if I spare his brain, he'll rise up and follow me back to the airport, and that might make feel better. I'll introduce him to everyone, and maybe we'll stand around and groan for a while. It's hard to say what 'friends' are any more, but that might be close.
— Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies
My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.
— Dame Edna Everage
Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like.
— Woodrow Wilson
Stands the Church clock at ten to three?And is there honey still for tea?
— Rupert Brooke, The Old Vicarage, Grantchester
It's like one of those scenes from a feel-good Hollywood movie. Where everybody is happy and nobody's hair fizzes in the wind. Where it doesn't rain, your shoes stay comfortable all day, and everybody's jokes are funny.
— Randa Abdel-Fattah, Does My Head Look Big In This?
Well, my friends give me purple flowers and orange teaand goosedown spinning quilts and torquoise chairswe greet one another in a wild profusion of wordsand wave farewell amidst the wonderment of airIn the laughing times we know we are luckyIn the quiet times we know that we are blessedAnd we will not be alone
— Dar Williams
I have really good instincts about friends.
— Nicole Richie
Prune these alleged friends ruthlessly from your life. You need all the positive reinforcement you can get. You need friends who think you're fabulous, an angel in human shape, and a breath of springtime.
— Cynthia Heimel, Sex Tips For Girls: Lust, Love, and Romance from the Lives of Single Women
Suddenly Saffron had a picture in her mind of Sarah waiting at the bottom of the wall, and she was angry with herself.Something changed in Saffron at that moment. She knew all about feeling left out.... That was why she wanted her angel so badly; proof that she mattered as much as anyone else."I couldn't really climb the wall," she said. "And if I could, what if I got caught? What would I say?""You'd think of something.""No. It was a stupid idea. Let's try your way, early in the morning.""Before breakfast?""Yes. All right Mission Control?""All right," said Sarah. "All right, Superhero.
— Hilary McKay, Saffy's Angel
Should we still be friends when it could be more profitable if otherwise?
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
As we reached the wooded hill that led to the pipe, Cheater said, "Uh-oh.""What's wrong?" I asked."Is anyone here thinking about kicking the crap out of me?" he asked."Not me," I said."Me either," Lucky said."Maybe tomorrow," Flinch told him. "But not at the moment." hidden talents
— David Lubar, Hidden Talents
You're well enough looked after now' says Farouq. 'We are your friends. Don't we care about you? All this bitterness, it's in your own mind. To be accepted as a human being, you must behave like one. The more human you act, the more human you'll be.' He spoils the effect of this decent speech by adding with a smirk, 'Four-foot cunt.
— Indra Sinha, Animal's People
Let your intimate friends be chosen from such as are better informed than yourself.
— Robert Schumann
Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.
— Francesco Guicciardini
Life at H.I.V.E. may have its attractions after all, Otto thought. Friends, as they say, may come and go, but high-powered laser weapons are forever.
— Mark Walden, H.I.V.E. Higher Institute of Villainous Education
Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends.
— Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Friends have ways of speaking without words.
— Alice Dalgliesh, The Courage of Sarah Noble
Prosperity is no just scale
—  adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
I started to think of friends I could lean on for some help, but, as always happened when I attempted this kind of social audit, I realised that far too many of them were abroad, dead, married to people who disapproved of me, or weren't really my friends, now that I came to think of it.
— Hugh Laurie, The Gun Seller
I see ridiculous stories about my butt, like how it has been insured. I feel like saying, "Hey, everyone has a butt. It's not that big a deal!" But I suppose it's flattering. Personally, I've always loved the curvy look. Even when I was a little girl and all my friends would be like, "Oh, my god, your butt's so big." And I'd say, "I love it.
— Kim Kardashian
But it's like no matter how much energy you pour into getting to the station on time, or getting on the right train, there's still no guarantee that anybody's gonna be there for you to pick you up when you get there.
— Nancy Oliver
See, I was never a guy who had a whole heap of friends to belong to. Besides Greg Fienni, I never really had friends. I kind of stayed on my own. I hated it, but I was proud of it too. Cameron Wolfe needed no one. He didn't need to be amongst a pack. Not all of us roam like that. No, all he needed was his instincts. All he needed was himself.
— Markus Zusak, Underdog
We are all bounded with each other on the basis of our beliefs and values; when we question those values, we are certainly left alone, away from our families, friends and the dear one. And that is a cost benefit analysis we all make and we keep satisfying ourselves with the status quo of situations.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Oh! I know what I wanted to tell you – you’ll never guess who Thomas is chasing after now…”Hmmm, never guess or can’t be bothered to guess – it was a hard call. I yawned again, glancing at the bed, which was inviting me to clamber back inside and pull the sheet over my head. So tempting, but not practical.
— Melanie Cusick-Jones, Hope's Daughter
How can I ever make you understand Cassie and me? I would have to take you there, walk you down every path of our secret shared geography. The truism says it’s against all odds for a straight man and woman to be real friends, platonic friends; we rolled thirteen, threw down five aces and ran away giggling. She was the summertime cousin out of storybooks, the one you taught to swim at some midge-humming lake and pestered with tadpoles down her swimsuit, with whom you practiced first kisses on a heather hillside and laughed about it years later over a clandestine joint in your granny’s cluttered attic. She painted my fingernails gold and dared me to leave them that way for work…We climbed out her window and down the fire escape and lay on the roof of the extension below, drinking improvised cocktails and singing Tom Waits and watching the stars spin dizzily around us.No.
— Tana French, In the Woods
And we must still try or we would be leaving our friends to fight without us. I think this is what you have meant by duty, all along; I do understand, at least this much of it.
— Naomi Novik, His Majesty's Dragon
I am not, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, a good-natured man; that is, many things annoy me besides what interferes with my own ease and interest. I hate a lie; a piece of injustice wounds me to the quick, though nothing but the report of it reach me. Therefore I have made many enemies and few friends; for the public know nothing of well-wishers, and keep a wary eye on those who would reform them.
— William Hazlitt
The best way to know a city is to eat it.
— Scott Westerfeld, Afterworlds
It wasn't till they were on the bridge that Delly asked RB, "So, Ferris Boyd's your favorite?" She didn't mind, mostly.RB answered so fast, though, she knew he wasn't fibbing. "She's my favorite friend," he told her. "You're my favorite everything.
— Katherine Hannigan, True
For the first time, it struck me that when Denver said he'd be my friend for life, he meant it-for better or for worse. The hell of it was, Mr. Ballantine never wanted a friend, especially a black one. But once Denver committed, he stuck. It reminded me of what Jesus told His disciples 'Greater love has no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
— Ron Hall, Same Kind of Different as Me
We did musical chairs to sit with our partner. Glasses were refilled and heads bent in pairs. Looking over the table, I was suffused with affection for my friends. If you could bottle this warm feeling and turn it into words, I thought, that would be the perfect toast.
— Kerry Reichs
Make friends not enemies. Compliment do not criticize. Like.
— David Chiles
We are all the same and we are all different. What great friends we will be.
— Kelly Moran, The Tiny Caterpillar and the Great Big Tree
You know that you're a true friend when somebody says "But what about that wart on the end of his nose?" and your honest response is "What wart?". You see true friends accept you for what you are, wart and all.
— Jeffrey Michael
She raised a sharp eyebrow at him. "Vlad, no offense, but look at you. If you're not a vampire, you're clearly the most anemic goth I've ever seen."... "We believed you. Because that's what friends do."pg267 October to Vlad
— Heather Brewer, Twelfth Grade Kills
Hey presto: time travel. You don't need a time machine, it turns out, you just need a friend to laugh like a teenager. Chronology shivers.
— Michael Marshall Smith, By Blood We Live
We are both going to pray that we may live together all our lives and die the same day.
— L.M. Montgomery
You be careful, Wizard. Interestingly eccentric friends aren't easy to find.
— Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas
Her tactics are brutal. The Marines could employ her.
— Katie McGarry, Dare You To
I'll try to see you as just a friend, but it's gonna take a while. So please be patient, okay? Let me be in love with you for just a little longer.
— Hisaya Nakajo, Hana-Kimi, Vol. 18
Oh my! Did you see him?' Exie stops abruptly and turns to watch a man who smiles at her. ' Ooh yeah, he is fine.''You're not going to stop to talk to him?''Why ruin what we have by getting to know him?' She said with a wink.
— Jennifer Loren, The Devil's Eyes
Aunt Fanny tells me you made great friends with Mr. Mottram. I'm sure he can't be very nice.''I don't think he is,' said Julia. 'I don't know that I like nice people
— Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
A fixation with connecting with 'friends' online comes with the risk of disconnection with friends waiting for you to be present in the offline world.
— Craig Hodges
The echo of two boys playing in a pool testing each other to see who could hold their breath the longest.… Whadda ya wanna do now?— I know, we could wrestle like the Roman gladiators— Okay— What do we fight for?— Loser has to do the victor’s homework for a week— Nah, raise the stakes. Loser has to suck the victor’s johnny— Trenton recalled the long ago memory of two boys wrestling, butt naked in the back yard and the battle went on forever locked in each other’s grip. A stalemate tangle in each other’s arm. And they kissed finding each other’s tongue. The taste of it so good and frightening at the same time and they pulled apart fearfully— Deez— Yeah Trent— I don’t think we should tell anyone about this, okay? — Yeah okay—
— Talon P.S., Becoming His Slave
Hot as hell isn't he?' Exie questioned from over my shoulder.'Yeah, I guess he is''You guess? Are you blind? Girl, he is so fine it's scary. I nearly had an orgasm the other day when he asked me a cup of tea. But don't stare too hard, Meagan will scratch your eyes out if she catches you staring at her man.' Exie said with a high eyebrow warning.
— Jennifer Loren, The Devil's Eyes
Most Americans watch Friends rather than having friends.
— Robert Putnam
I'm Exie and despite what you may hear I am the best dancer here. No one else compares. So, don't even think you're going to come in here and take my time slots.With a slight smile,' Well, if you're that good then you shouldn't have to worry about it, should you' I said. Exie's bright smile forms smoothly across her face, 'I like you...
— Jennifer Loren, The Devil's Eyes
Thanks to Lana Turner, Eleven Eleven, The Nation, LIT Magazine (USA), Critical Quarterly (UK), Beautiful Outlaw Press, no press, The Capilano Review, cv2, Rhubarb and Centre A Gallery (Canada).
— Erín Moure, The Unmemntioable
Presently, one after another, like shyly hopping sparrows, her friends arrived, black against the snow.
— Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
You know you're my best friend, right?' he said.I shrugged. I guessed it was true. Now that I wasn't going to be at the parade, they would all hate me. Everything had been carefully choreographed, and me not being there would throw them all off. I realized that kids like Theo and me weren't supposed to have real friends. We were supposed to be all alone and confused. By being each other's friend, we were defying our laws of gravity.
— Heather O'Neill, Lullabies for Little Criminals
It was if we all sensed we'd be gone someday soon in a sudden instant--often it happened in the middle of the night--and didn't want to get involved. Or else it was that none of us wanted to know anybody later on who was the way we were now.
— Richard Ford, The Sportswriter
Friends can be the best co-conspirators in charting the unknown.
— Judith Orloff
Uh-oh," Moni sang, and nodded her head in Chantal's direction. "I think someone's a wee bit upset with us." She turned and walked a few steps backward."Careful," I said. "We're not out of range.""Have no fear, Super Brain is here." Moni whipped out her calculator, holding it up like a shield."What are you going to do, daze her with denominators?""Maybe. But first I'm going to pummel her with my Pythagorean theorem.
— Charity Tahmaseb, The Geek Girl's Guide to Cheerleading
Find out how Claude and Kelly end up from being Friends 2 Lovers as you follow them through their disappointing, confusing, loving, shocking,encouraging, and romantic moments. But can their bond last and withstand all the challenges that cross their way?
— Jonathan Anthony Burkett, Friends 2 Lovers: The Unthinkable
Romy had never done a budget, Marisol had never designed costumes and sets, and Suzanne had never acted, but when I asked them to help, they didn't hesitate
— Adriana Trigiani, Viola in Reel Life
I had lesser friends who would pretend to be interested in a night of catching up and then morph into giggly backstabbers at the first whiff of Polo Aftershave--woman who were lightning fast with the put-down joke or dismissive wave, whatever it took to seem more pretty or witty or larger chested to the nighly swarm of male barflies.
— Kristin Gore, Sammy's Hill
Unfailing friends are essential, when ‘presence’ and ‘absence’ are wrangling in our daily living, and our presence is rampaged by murk and woe, while passion and lust for life are trampled. Reliable allies can shore us up and since we are our best ally, we first have got to make sure we get along well with ourselves. ("Being my best friend”).
— Erik Pevernagie