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There are people you wont miss, but wont forget either. Those people are unique
— Ishak Zaaimia
Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend
— William Feather
'Are we done? You can avoid us all again and we'll keep talking about you behind your back.' 
— Lynn Kelling, Bound By Lies
Now-people” are winners; they say “now” and they do it now! That’s the spirit we need, my friends. If you have the goals and the environment is clear enough, go ahead and do it now!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
'I'm not that easy to get rid of,' Andre retorts. 'As you know well. What state are you in? Besides confusion.' 
— Lynn Kelling, Bound By Lies
As we were told about others, so others will be told about us. that is "HISTORY". and the most painfull thing about it is that, it does not repeat itself. it comes onece in life and never again.
— Hamzat haruna Ribah
Your best friends should bring out the best in you. If they don't, lose them; they are no friends.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
But friendship meant you at least planted the seed for them, love meant allowing them the ability to weed their own garden until it was something healthy and thriving, blooming and bright and smelling of heather and tiger lilies.
— Shannon Noelle Long, Second Coming
Harry loves slimy things, hairy things, and creepy things. Harry loves anything horrible. I know -- I'm his best friend Doug.
— Suzy Kline, Horrible Harry's Secret
Friendship isn't about becoming somebody else perfect person. It is about finding someone who helps you become the best person you can be.
— John
You try hard, but you don't succeed.. So you try harder, and harder... But you still just don't succeed, you give it a try once more; only realising its never going to work out the way you want it to. But then again, you remember; you've tried so much. You've tried to please, you've tried to love and you've tried to care. You think to yourself, "Why should I keep on going?" You try so hard, what's the point.. No one accepts you for who you are, no one sees you for who you are, no one takes the time to ask how you feel, no one takes the time to bother.. But then there's you... You try, and try. And you just give up hope, because its just so much easier!
— Liam McGrath
Watch out! Someone taught me that I should watch the people in my boat; some may be rolling the boat while others may be drilling holes under it! So, am determined to watch my circle!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
Who do you want to surround yourself with? People who can pull you up to their level of greatness? Or people who will happily pull you down to theirs?
— Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing
My friends, life is so serious that if you are not aware of whom you are, your "youniversity" will be prestigious but unknown!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
You're funny.' Phoebe passed me the last chocolate cupcake. 'And I always thought your friends were laughing over their own farts.''Ninety percent of Eastwood's male population laughs over their own farts. Present company excluded, naturally.
— Robyn Schneider, The Beginning of Everything
I don't have time is the worst possible excuse for I'd rather be doing something else. You MAKE time! Whether it be family, friends or an activity, like reading it's all in what you WANT to do. The heartbreaking moment is when you have extended time & devotion sometimes years with someone you knew to be worthy who can return it & they CHOOSE not to.
— Gypsie M. Holley
Most people don't have real friends. You have people in your life waiting for opportunities to see what YOU can do for them.
— Brandi L. Bates, Soledad
George, I’m sorry!” he cried through his tears. “I’m sorry, I’m sorry, please, I’m suh-suh-SORRY—” And then they were around him, his friends, and no one lit a match, and someone held him, he didn’t know who, Beverly maybe, or maybe Ben, or Richie. They were with him, and for that little while the darkness was kind.
— Stephen King, It
You’d be hard-pressed to find an old person who would trade in a true friend for any amount of popularity or fame. You'd also be hard-pressed to find a young person who wouldn't.
— Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing
It really hurts when I see two good friends arenot talking to each other from long ago. Life isjust for once. There are so many arguments youcan win with but you are gonna lose the person
— Pawan Mehra
What do we do know?(Peeta)I guess we try to forget...(Katniss)I don't want to forget.(Peeta)
— Suzanne Collins
I didn't expect to love being online as much as I do. I've met some wonderful people and discovered that however arcane some of my interests that there are people out there who are interested too.
— Sara Sheridan
What criterion ought one to adopt to judge one's fellows? After all, there was not a single person he knew who might not, in certain circumstances, prove capable of a shameful action.
— Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
Friendship is a special kind of love. More than endless, more than true. When friends parted ways no matter the distance, expect them to keep coming back to you.
— John K.
We are given these niches, small worlds of our own populated by only a handful, where we feel understood. Our bubble worlds bump into innumerable others daily, but there is so little cause to allow their integrity to be breached.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Find What You Love and Let It Kill You
So no one told your life wasGonna be this wayYour job's a jokey brokeYour love life's D.O.A.It's like you're always stuckIn second gearWhen it hasn't been your dayYour week, your monthOr even your year but,I'll be there for youWhen the rain starts to pourI'll be there for youLike I've been there beforeI'll be there for you'Cause you're there for me tooYou're still in bed at tenand work began at eightYou burned your breakfastSo far things are going greatYour mother warned you there'd beDays like theseBut she didn't tell you whenThe world has brought youDown to your knees thatI'll be there for youWhen the rain starts to pourI'll be there for youLike I've been there beforeI'll be there for you'Cause you're there for me too
— The Rembrandts
my phone beeped. I took it from my handbag and sawa text message from Dixie.It read: that man is sizzling HOT HOT HOT!!!!truth! I texted back.omg! his accent! his body! im in lurvi noticed!hes a bilfwtf???boss id like 2 fuk! I snorted out loud with laughter.Heller flicked his cold eyes to me.I wrote: norty girl!ooh! does he like norty asian girls? Another involuntary snort from me.“Ms Chalmers,” he warned.gotta go. my new daddys strict, I texted.spankz for u 2nite!lolz! only if im lucky! c u soon xx- heller 1
— j d nixon
Often, the best stories aren't when someone pulls one 180-degree turn, but when someone pulls 180 one-degree turns: the stories when someone experiences a slow and, at times, indistinguishable evolution; the stories where a million tiny steps produce something so brilliant; the stories where perseverance and struggle go hand in hand.
— Josh James Riebock, mY Generation: A Real Journey of Change and Hope
The three of you were pretty cute last night, with all that touchy-feely crap.""Yeah, that lasted for about two minutes before you dragged Evan back over to the bar.""Dude, we were hunting Turkey. [drinking bourbon] it was important." Chris grins. "That boy can drink, I'll give him that." "That's big of you. From the way you were hanging off each other by the end of the night, I was thinking I might get Jeff all to myself." Chris shoots him a look. "Is that what you want? If you had your way? Just Jeff?" Dan Isn't really ready to answer that question, not even from Chris. "Wow, you'd switch teams just for me? You'd steal Evan away just so I could take his boyfriend? That's sweet man, really."Dan knows that Chris recognizes the deflection, but he lets Dan get away with it. "That's the kind if friend I am, Dan. Maybe you should take a lesson - the next time I need a wingman in a straight bar, it wouldn't kill you to step up." "Yeah, okay, I'll keep that on mind.
— Kate Sherwood, Out of the Darkness
Having a friend made everything else suck less.
— Laurie Halse Anderson, The Impossible Knife of Memory
I do not need any friends. I prefer enemies. They are better company and their feelings towards you are always genuine.
— Dylan Thomas, The Doctor and the Devils
The friend that always finds time to spend with you without consulting his or her calendar is a true friend.
— Ellen J. Barrier
Some friends are like sunny days, with false flames, oozing from afar, coming near without a dime.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
True friends are placed together for the purpose of accomplishing great achievements that help others.
— Ellen J. Barrier
The more we love, the more it hurts, and the more we have to let go.
— Mary E. DeMuth, Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus
People who are all alone have every right to be friends with one another.("The Honeymoon Of Mrs. Smith" - Version 1)
— Shirley Jackson, Just an Ordinary Day: The Uncollected Stories
I am not stopping till my enemies become my friends.
— Amit Kalantri
Never test your friends, You will be ashamed or disappointed.
— Miit Anmol
For my success I am immensely grateful to God, my parents, my family, my friends, my teachers and to the books I read.
— Amit Kalantri
Hey, Melissa-is there anything I should know about having this kid that isn't in the books I've been reading?"Sunlight streamed through the window, making the golden, hormone-induced mutton chops glisten upon my cheeks. As I waited for her answer, I thumbed through the glossy parenting magazines on her kitchen table.A candle flickered by the sink, adding sweetness to the spit-up scented air that was gutting punched in the face by a diaper change...
— Kim Bongiorno, "You Have Lipstick on Your Teeth" and Other Things You'll Only Hear from Your Friends In The Powder Room
You’ve kidnapped my friend. Sucked her brain out! Not that she had much to begin with, but—”“Bite me.” The laughter didn’t hurt, now. I didn’t even feel weird saying it. Bite me.Pretty funny, for a part-vampire.“Ha. You wish. Lesbo vamp girl.”“Lesbo?”“You love me.”“We’d never work, Nat. You’re too high maintenance.”We both cracked up, and right then, the darkness was kind.
— Lili St. Crow, Reckoning
He waited a moment, as they walked side by side through the camp, and then asked, 'Sir, if there's something we can't handle how do we handle it anyway?' She either grunted or laughed from the same place that grunts came from. 'Sawtooth wedges and keep going, Beak. Throw back whatever is thrown at us. Keep going, until. . .' 'Until what?' 'It's all right, Beak, to die alongside your comrades. It's all right. Do you understand me?' 'Yes sir, I do. It is all right, because they're my friends.' 'That's right, Beak.
— Steven Erikson, Reaper's Gale
Always remember...the stronger your position in life, the more enemies you're gonna have .. while friends come and go.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
Don't compete with your friends to win a date with few beautiful girls, but compete to win few beautiful goals.
— Amit Kalantri
You are my only friend in the world, and I want to talk to you. Or, perhaps, be silent with you.
— G.K. Chesterton, The Best of Father Brown
The life and friends are two connected things. As life is one we get friends for once too. There could be so many things between friends sometime we get angry on. But If you don't solve and remain angry then that will be your big mistake and it could be just because of your ego. One side can take step to solve it but your ego (that is not fully ego but a kind of ego for that you think you were right at that moment and another one should take step first to feel apologize) never let you to do so. You should be apologize to be a good friend. Now you may think why to apologize if another one doesn't care at all. Then whats the difference between you and that one. You may leave it by thinking you dont need or you may proceed to solve it. It shouldn't be difficult to apologize with friends.
— Pawan Mehra
They all went indoors with their new friends, and found rooms so small as none but those who invite from the heart could think capable of accommodating so many.
— Jane Austen, Persuasion
If the wealth you've accumulated is in the form of friends, family and books, then you're doing life right.
— Saleem Sharma
As I look back over my mountains of growth and compare them to the molehills where I stagnated, community often made the difference.
— Mary E. DeMuth, Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus
Keep your friends close, enemies closer. Takes little effort to drive a sharp knife through their hearts when they outlive their uselessness!
— Akuku Mach Pep
...every "Good Bye" said by a true friend, shall always be followed by "Hello" and every happy end shall always be a beginning of something New and Wonderful!
— Galina Nelson, Anninch
I am not stopping till my critics become my fans.
— Amit Kalantri
When things are like hunky dory, every enemy comes in the name of friend, but when things are twisted like turmoil, every friendly enemy shows you their colour.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
One fake friend can do more harm than 10 enemies... Be smart choosing your friends.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
There are literally billions of people on earth. There are some that won’t admit it, but all of those people want friends.
— Daniel Willey
It doesn’t matter where you’re at, when you’re with people you love, you’re where you belong.
— Courtney Carola, Where We Belong
You have three types of friends in life: Friends for a reason, friends for a season, and friends for a lifetime.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
Sylph and Jodi return to my side, each carrying a cloth sack full of chickweed. I wrap my arm around Sylph's waist and give her a quick squeeze. "Lesson's over for today. I have something to discuss with Logan.""Sounds serious." Jodi wiggles her brows at me."I think that's just Rachel for 'I need to go kiss my boy.'" Sylph laughs when I glare at her.
— C.J. Redwine, Deception
When you choose your life, ignore people, when you make it in life, remember some friends, when you sing a song, praise your source, when predicaments arises, stand your ground.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Don't risk your life for those that doesn't love your life, lest you end up in regrets if not death.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Halls are full of strangers, even when you recognize the faces.
— Jayme K.
Irony of "importance": Those who deserve, don't get it; Those who don't, get it in abundance by you.
— Shivam Singh
Don't drive a car in the dream, else you won't drive it on earth. Don't wish to become, else you won't become. Don't associate with fools, else your ancestors will be insulted. Don't be addicted to wine, else your pocket will be empty. Don't be drunk, else you'll be attacked.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
I don't care how happily married you are or how deeply enmeshed you are with your children and family and career -- every woman needs a couple of chicks who'll break out the sangria just because you need to vent.
— Jen Lancaster, Jeneration X: One Reluctant Adult's Attempt to Unarrest Her Arrested Development; Or, Why It's  Never Too Late for Her Dumb Ass to Learn Why Froot Loops Are Not for Dinner
Thoughts turn to other's just a little more this time of year. Days grow shorter and memories grow longer. Families and friends gather in celebration or hope. Giving is a reflection of our love and caring for each other and those less fortunate. May your thoughts turn to gratitude this holiday season and carry on throughout the next year…
— James A. Murphy, The Waves of Life Quotes and Daily Meditations
Make life about more than just you. Take the world around you and transform it for the sake of others. Do a good deed for your neighbor; smile at strangers; volunteer for a bigger purpose and don’t except anything in return. The first step of redemption is digging yourself out of the hole you dug around yourself and dedicating your time to others. When the world stops revolving around your comfort zone and draws in the needs of others, you may quickly break the chains that hold you down from reaching your ultimate goal.
— Leigh Hershkovich
Who knows you more...your friend or your enemy? It's your enemy that pursues with passion while your friend engages at leisure.
— Donna Lynn Hope
If a friend starts behaving silly because you bother him so much, don't worry, you're not the first person, he has got a sting in his stomach, an hunger that causes an epidemic hatred.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
The life and friends are two connected things.. As life is one we get friends for once too... there could be so many things between friends sometime we get angry on. But If you don't solve and remain angry then that will be your big mistake and it could be just because of your ego. One side can take step to solve it but your ego (that is not fully ego but a kind of ego for that you think you were right at that moment and another one should take step first to feel apologize) never let you to do so. You should be apologize to be a good friend...... Now you may think why to apologize if another one doesn't care at all... Then whats the difference between you and that one. You may leave it by thinking you dont need or you may proceed to solve it. It shouldn't be difficult to apologize with friends....... I'm just sharing this because arround me it has been happening and i just want to let them think before it ends.....
— Pawan Mehra
People you don't like are pigheaded. Your friends are stubborn, or hold to their purpose.~Victor Radcliff
— Harry Turtledove, The United States of Atlantis
Friends are a special kind of love because they are there for one another like no other relationship can be.
— Danielle Barone
A celebrity starts being a cele-crazy when he's seen often, he's just like the ordinary man in the streets. Without much ado to shout his name, i go my way.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Enemies can also be friends.
— Wendy Zhang
A man who looks like Frodo just spent $150 on erotica books and asked for my phone number. I considered giving him yours just to spite you.
— Syrie James, The Missing Manuscript of Jane Austen
Having a relationship with people of questionable character is like playing with a razor blade on your skin, and pretending to observe that it is harmful to your body.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
What softened your heart?" I asked softly."Good music and a friend."I felt my eyes burn a little and turned from him, blinking quickly to lap up the sting of tears. "Music has incredible power""So does friendship," he supplied frankly.
— Amy Harmon, Running Barefoot
Everybody isn't your friend. Just because they hang around you and laugh with you doesn't mean they're for you. Just because they say they got got your back, doesn't mean they won't stab you in it. People pretend well. Jealousy sometimes doesn't live far. So know your circle. At the end of the day real situations expose fake people so pay attention.
— Trent Shelton
Life is hard and unfair. It is cruel and heartless, painful, trying, disappointing, unapologetic, and frequently downright awful. But that's not important. What's important is that through it all you learn how much you need your Heavenly Father and how much your friends need you.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
Some nights, we were a city of two.
— Jerry Spinelli, Milkweed
Our lives are filled with meeting wonderful people. Make sure those that have become a part of your life hear your words of appreciation.
— Ace Antonio Hall
Isn't friendship amazing? At one time, our friends were just strangers to us. However, there was something special about these strangers; you felt a connection, something in common, a special bond, and your friendship began. What if, as we pass all of the ‘strangers’ in our lives, if we looked at these strangers as if they could be a friend? What a different world it would be….
— James A. Murphy, The Waves of Life Quotes and Daily Meditations
Enemies are the people who think about you more than your friends do.
— Donna Lynn Hope
Especially as I was an old friend, or at least I was a person she had known for a long time, which after a certain point is almost the same thing...
— Julian Fellowes, Past Imperfect
I've discovered a way to stay friends forever - There's really nothing to it. I simply tell you what to doAnd you do it!
— Shel Silverstein, A Light in the Attic
God gives us relatives; thank God, we can choose our friends.
— Addison Mizner
Heroes don't have friends, they have fans.
— Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
Often we see detox as a solitary pursuit, something we have to muscle up for and go it alone. But the truth is that it will be easier and healthier if you find a way to integrate your friends and family into the experience.
— Woodson Merrell, The Detox Prescription: Supercharge Your Health, Strip Away Pounds, and Eliminate the Toxins Within
She gave thanks for the grace that pours down when you least expect it-and wasn't that just another name for love?
— Elaine Hussey, The Sweetest Hallelujah
Friendship is a beautiful blessing. You may love your friends and they may love you, but that doesn’t mean they should have unexamined influence in all areas of your life.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
I prefer friends who walks with me in the shade - because friends, who constantly splendor in the glow of the flash of photographers, and sometimes accompany me - at every turn in times of success, this species of friends are suspect to me.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Community, community, community. It's ALL about community. That's the explanation of why it pains us when we find ourselves isolated from others. That's the reason why it hurts to say good-bye to those we love........ Nothing you purchase can replace community with your friends, family or God. No position at work can fill the void. Wealth can't take its place, and fame won't make any difference.
— Chris Coppernoll, A Beautiful Fall
Your impact on the lives of others--your family, the people at your church, your workmates--is cultivated with each decision you make, no matter how small.
— Jim George, One-Minute Insights for Men
Friends; the more, the less!
— Raheel Farooq
The other day, a friend of a friend said that everyone started out as girls, but boys evolved… But don’t worry girls, I hit him.
— Ben Mitchell
The second best thing after a gift itself is the way of giving it
— Ali Boussi
Go to the cops then!” I shout. “But mind if I ask what you plan on telling them? Because saying two dead teenagers came to you in the middle of the night and told you something or someone is going to kill you is only going to get you locked in a cozy, padded cell.”“Well, it has to be better than spending another second with you.”“Make sure they put that on your headstone, will you? Right below ‘Here lies Benedict Bartholomew Ford. He had no friends and a really stupid name’.
— Rebecca Harris, Be the Death of Me
What is a man but another man's memory
— Addison Killebrew
When we see a lonely fisherman, we ask where the boat is; when we see a lonely boat, we ask where the fisherman is! We love to see the good friends always together!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Seeing him jogging at the park had cracked the window so I could peek into his soul. Seeing him with his friends threw the window wide
— Jennifer Echols, Going Too Far
As you grow older, you realize it becomes less important to have more friends and more important to have real ones.People nowadays don't know the true meaning of friendship and loyalty.People always suddenly miss you more once they see how much happier you are without them.Learn the real from the fake....and don't worry about the mistakes you make.There are no mistakes in life, just lessons.The only people worthy to be in your life are the ones that help you through the hard times and laugh with you after the hard times pass.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
There are so many battles worth fighting for. The ones not worth fighting are the insecure battles that rage in another person’s mind.
— Shannon L. Alder
And then there's that person that no matter what, they'll answer your call at 4 am. Your 4am-er. They'll say exactly what you need to hear to bring you back to earth. Your comfort, your voice of reason, your hit upside the head. And he'll always be my 4 am-er.
— Hope Alcocer, Where Hope Lies
Best friends are forever. That's why they're called BFFs.
— Lauren Conrad, Sweet Little Lies
I think this is one bad side of a mirror; it helps us to see the reflection of the effects of our own actions on ourselves. We smile and it smiles back to us, we frown and it frowns to us. How I wish it shows us the reflections of the effects of our actions on other people as well so that we will be conscious!
— Israelmore Ayivor
That's the problem with winning right from the start, thought Ender. you lose friends.
— Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
Wherever you go in the next catastrophéBe it sickroom, or prison, or cemet’ryDo not fear that your stay will besolit’ryCountless souls share your fate,you’ll have company!
— Roman Payne, The Basement Trains
If growing up means not seeing one’s family and friends on the regular—all in the name of paying the bills, then growing up is overrated.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit
Books make the best ersatz friendships.
— Nenia Campbell, Locked and Loaded
My mother raised her eyebrow, and murmured, “And to think I was always worried that you didn’t have any friends. I suppose I should have been counting my blessings.
— Patricia Briggs, Bone Crossed
We had the kind of conversations that only great friends can ever share. They were touched with magic.
— Tahir Shah, In Arabian Nights: A Caravan of Moroccan Dreams
Once in a rare lifetime have you ever been in a roomful of people who only helped you when you looked at them, listened to them. this was one of those magic times. I knew it.
— Charles Bukowski, Notes of a Dirty Old Man
Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.
— George Ebers
Friends are forever but life is full of disapointments
— Trinity J. Eidsness
It is a truism but it is still true that the longer one knows people the less relevant it becomes whether or not one liked them initially.
— Julian Fellowes, Snobs
There were friends all over London who would welcome his eagerly to their homes, who would throw open their guest rooms and their fridges, eager to condole and to help. The price of all of those comfortable beds and home-cooked meals, however, would be to sit at kitchen tables, once the clean-pajamaed children were in bed, and relive the filthy final battle with Charlotte, submitting to the outraged sympathy and pity of his friends' girlfriends and wives. To this he preferred grim solitude, a Pot Noodle and a sleeping bag.
— Robert Galbraith, The Cuckoo's Calling
Interesting people aren't interesting because of what they always say
—  the most interesting people are the ones that always listen!
The strange thing is, this truly horrifying experience planted a seed deep within my heart that germinated and grew into a desire that, I have to admit, I've never completely overcome.
— Kathi Daley, Halloween Hijinks
I never said you were my friend. I just didn't have the guts to tell you to leave.
— Kris Harte
fans are just friends and family I haven't met... or wrote about yet
— Janna Hill
You have to go for it. For the rest of us.
— Cathy Hopkins, Million Dollar Mates
I don’t want to believe in boxes or one-way relationships; I’m naïve, you see. I’d rather moon the moon than flip off a friend, but sometimes I flip so I don’t get flipped. And I still think I’m misunderstanding the Golden Rule.
— Chila Woychik, On Being a Rat and Other Observations
A present is not the source of buying someone's love but its a source of showing how much u love and apriciate that particular person
— Ralph Ramovha
When success is uniform, the celebration becomes universal. Of which use is it to you to rejoice at the time your friend cries?
— Israelmore Ayivor
I speak, I speak, and truth at that. Writers are a curious breed: brooding, fickle, alternately loving and hating their work—and each other. You’re my friend? Don’t pick up that pen!
— Chila Woychik, On Being a Rat and Other Observations
I feel like Amy wanted people to believe she really was perfect. And as we got to be friends, I got to know her. And she wasn't perfect. You know? She was brilliant and charming and all that, but she was also controlling and OCD and a drama queen and a bit of a liar. Which was fine by me. It just wasn't fine by her. She got rid of me because I knew she wasn't perfect.
— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
I may not be happy with you right now, but I still love you.
— Janet Gurtler, How I Lost You
My old friend, what are you looking for?After years abroad you’ve come backwith images you’ve nourishedunder foreign skiesfar from you own country.’‘I’m looking for my old garden;the trees come to my waistand the hills resemble terracesyet as a childI used to play on the grassunder great shadowsand I would run for hoursbreathless over the slopes.’‘My old friend, rest,you’ll get used to it little by little;together we will climbthe paths you once knew,we will sit togetherunder the plane trees’ dome.They’ll come back to you little by little,your garden and your slopes.’‘I’m looking for my old house,the tall windowsdarkened by ivy;I’m looking for the ancient columnknown to sailors.How can I get into this coop?The roof comes to my shouldersand however far I lookI see men on their kneesas though saying their prayers.’‘My old friend, don’t you hear me?You’ll get used to it little by little.Your house is the one you seeand soon friends and relativeswill come knocking at the doorto welcome you back tenderly.’‘Why is your voice so distant?Raise your head a littleso that I understand you.As you speak you growgradually smalleras though you’re sinking into the ground.’‘My old friend, stop a moment and think:you’ll get used to it little by little.Your nostalgia has createda non-existent country, with lawsalien to earth and man.’‘Now I can’t hear a sound.My last friend has sunk.Strange how from time to timethey level everything down.Here a thousand scythe-bearing chariots go pastand mow everything down
— Giorgos Seferis
You'll continue to be a bitch no matter what, but I'm glad you aren't a callous, self-absorbed one.
— Genna Rulon, Only for You
The evening makes me think Facebook is a blessing and a curse. Sure, it helps us keep track of people with whom we otherwise would have fallen out of touch. But sometimes relationships fade for a reason. They're better left a memory.
— Rachel Bertsche, MWF Seeking BFF: My Yearlong Search For A New Best Friend
As day is to a sword, night is to a shield.
— Anthony Liccione
To hear how great your friends think you are: fake your death, or, get married.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Because while we all Facebook stalk, protocol is to not admit it. I might know, from status update, that a potential best friend swims laps every mornings, but it'd be creep to say "Don't worry about eating that doughnut, you deserve it after all those calories you burn!" Instead, I check out her profile and she reviews mine, but then we meet and pretend to know nothing.
— Rachel Bertsche, MWF Seeking BFF: My Yearlong Search For A New Best Friend
Keep your friends close, your enemies closer, and the junk food as far away as possble.
— Krista Scott-Dixon, Fuck Calories and Other Dietary Heresies
You know you do not understand yourself if everyone seems to understand you.
— Moffat Machingura
To gain height, lose all your tall friends.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
You can be the ugliest man in the world but once you got money, you can have all the women in the world.
— Jonathan Anthony Burkett
After our loved one dies: we cry, not because they left; but because they left us.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Your friends love you for who you are. Your family loves you for what you are.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
For rock solid friendship, never lie to your friends.
— Saru Singhal
Judge not the value of a friend by the number of boy- or girlfriends they helped you get. But by the number of books they’ve recommended to you.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful,people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground.
— Wilfred Peterson
it takes a village to build success in publishing a book - it takes friends that are willing to help - it takes hours upon hours of no's to get to a yes, it takes many twists and turns with seemingly no end to the detours, it takes courage to face the unknowns - it takes and it takes and it takes - But then, like a flower opening its blossom - it gives.........
— Rich Okun, The Sun, the Moon, the Stars and Maya: A Collection of Little Sayings about Enormous Things.
The older you get, the easier it is for you to distinguish between your friends and people you are not seeing for the first time.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
He(Samuel, known as 'the Pea') was as apprehensive, weak and nervous about things as Swaminathan was. The bond between them was laughter. They were able to see together the same absurdities and incongruities in things. The most trivial and unnoticeable thing to others would tickle them to death.
— R.K. Narayan, Swami and Friends, The Bachelor of Arts, The Dark Room, The English Teacher
You are the most beautiful woman I have ever seen, so it would be my honor to take you out. I understand if you have someone else in mind for such occasions, but I promise you, I would merely like a chance to get to know you, maybe make a friend.
— Lindsay Chamberlin, The Shoreline
Your friends and enemies are defined the moment you come to this world.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Acquaintances are always abundant
—  friends are always scarce!
Friends are family members we have a choice over.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Hanging around people you’re smarter than is good for your ego. Hanging around people who are smarter than you is good for your intellect.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A true friend has a habit of talking behind your back good things about you.
— Tareq ragheb
You don’t have to sleep with guys,” I whispered, “to make them like you.”Kya stared at me for a moment with heavy eyelids. “You don’t get it, do you, Gracie? I sleep with them so they won’t like me.” My heart broke for her a little more.
— Janet Gurtler, How I Lost You
For a ten-year-old boy and a ten-year-old girl to become good friends was not easy under any circumstances. Indeed, it might be one of the most difficult accomplishments in the world.
— Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
Being in love with your best friend is problematic.
— J.M.  Richards, Tall, Dark Streak of Lightning
As much as I cared about him, I wasn’t a slave to fate. I could choose to ignore my feelings, strong as they were. It would be painful, but no more so than letting myself pine for my friend.
— J.M.  Richards, Tall, Dark Streak of Lightning
This is the most profound spiritual truth I know: that even when we're most sure that love can't conquer all, it seems to anyway. It goes down into the rat hole with us, in the guise of our friends, and there it swells and comforts. It gives us second winds, third winds, hundredth winds.
— Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
Like a surgeon, friends cut you in order to heal you.
— Timothy J. Keller, The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God
Friends become wiser together through a healthy clash of viewpoints.
— Timothy J. Keller, The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God
You shouldn’t have to pretend to be as excited as I am just to make me happy. If it comes to that, you shouldn’t have to pretend to be anything around me. Friends should be real with each other
— J.M.  Richards, Tall, Dark Streak of Lightning
I got through it, and I wore it like a badge of honor—I Can Be Alone and it's Okay.
— J.M.  Richards, Tall, Dark Streak of Lightning
I Can Be Alone and it's Okay.
— J.M.  Richards, Tall, Dark Streak of Lightning
I know he’s a realist, he’s okay with being alone, and he helps people when he thinks no one is watching.
— J.M.  Richards, Tall, Dark Streak of Lightning
Best (male-female) friends hardly differ from lovers, but not too many lovers are best friends.It's just ironical that you are in love and want to spend the rest of your life with someone who is not good enough to be your best friend.
— Olaotan Fawehinmi
Promise me this, that you'll stand by me forever. But if God forbid Fate should step in and force us into a goodbye. If you have children someday, when they point to the pictures please tell them my name. Tell them how the crowd went wild, tell them how I hope they shine.
— Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift: Speak Now
I suppose that means you don’t want any band-aids, either,” I said, a touch more bitterly than I’d meant to.
— J.M.  Richards, Tall, Dark Streak of Lightning
As special as it is to listen to your friends argue over whether or not you have a mental illness,I'm starting to get the urge to go back to class.
— Kendare Blake, Girl of Nightmares
When the moment shifts, and you realize you don't actually want to be alone, that underneath the bravado is an ache that won’t quite fade away, you’re not only aware of how lonely you are, but how much you've been lying to yourself.
— J.M.  Richards, Tall, Dark Streak of Lightning
For friends that always pick you up when you fallAnd catapult you when you want to fly.
— S.L. Jennings
In his early days at University, he'd been too green to realize winning debates, even private ones, would lose him friends.
— T. Baggins, Soulless
I had always thought that I was fine with being alone. Halfway through high school, I moved from Brazil to America, and it took me forever to make friends. I had culture shock of virtually every kind, besides which I was awkward, geeky, and shy. So I ate alone, telling myself that it was fine while I watched other people have normal conversations with their friends.
— J.M.  Richards, Tall, Dark Streak of Lightning
Well, if you can accept that I’m a great big geeky fangirl, then I guess I can accept that you’re a skeptic and a realist.
— J.M.  Richards, Tall, Dark Streak of Lightning
If he can’t handle it, then you aren’t very good friends, are you?
— J.M.  Richards, Tall, Dark Streak of Lightning
It was nice. Even in high school, I’d mostly had makeshift friends forged by the shared status of outcast. It was rare for me to discuss things so easily to someone outside of my family, but somehow Jill got me.
— J.M.  Richards, Tall, Dark Streak of Lightning
When I arrived back at Intro to Basic Art again later that week, I thought for a moment we had a new student who didn’t know about the assigned seats. Sitting at my table was a girl in a long flowered dress, very vintage-hippie. She actually was wearing real flowers in her hair, and hardly any make up. I sat down, ready to explain to this poor lost soul that the seat was already taken, when I looked again and realized it was the same girl. I ended up not saying anything at all; I couldn’t think of anything that wouldn’t be rude or just plain stupid.
— J.M.  Richards, Tall, Dark Streak of Lightning
I bundled in my own blanket and reflected on the strange and somewhat unexpected friendship that was slowly developing between Davin and myself. It was clear to me that he needed a friend, but for reasons unknown to me, thought that it was better for him to be alone.
— J.M.  Richards, Tall, Dark Streak of Lightning
What kind of kids live in Mulhoney, Wisconsin? Would they like me? Would I like them? Have they ever eaten sushi? That's usually how I determine food sophistication. Maybe a personal ad would get the ball rolling:Insightful, hardworking, 16-year-old girl, emotionally generous and witty, seeks friend/pal/chum to while away meaningful hours. Picky eaters need not reply.
— Joan Bauer
What is the perfect peanut butter and jelly sandwich, exactly?” Tess asked, pursing her lips. Erin knew it was her attempt at making light of a heavy situation.“You know, just the right amount of jelly where it doesn’t squish out when you bite into it. Not so much peanut butter that you get all goopy-mouthed. Making the perfect PBJ is an art form. And it has to be fresh white bread, and the best grape jelly and creamy peanut butter on the market. No exceptions.”Tess bobbed her head. “Ah, yes. The dreaded goopy mouth.
— Jenny Lyn, Heart Trouble
It was in their friendship they just wanted to run forever, shadow and shadow.
— Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
Friendship isn't partying with a group of people to get drunk or chatting with him/her once a week, it's exactly the opposite. Friends make sure you get home safely and they help you when you need it, no matter the scenario. They don't care about what clothes you wear or what you look like, and they don't last for a day. Real friends are more interested in what direction your life is headed rather than your popularity. They care about what you have to say and how you feel, and once you meet this person you'll know it without having to think twice.
— Morgan Tang
When I met Millie, she was a hugger. She hugged over everything. I didn’t. We came to an agreement that hugs are reserved for prolonged partings and death. That’s it. At least, I thought that was our agreement. It seems like she’s figured out how to steal hugs more frequently. Millie’s turned into a hit and run hugger.
— H.M. Ward, Damaged
True compassion does not sit on the laps of renovation; it dives with an approach to reconstruction. Don't throw a coin at a begger. Rather, destroy his source of poverty.
— Israelmore Ayivor
Men come and go, but best friends are irreplaceable.
— C.M. Stunich, Losing Me, Finding You
They were not my friends, after all. They were just the people I went to school with.
— Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
I would sooner lose my best friend than my worst enemy. To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.
— Oscar Wilde, Vera or the Nihilists
Lord, thank you for the people who care more about me than about their schedules.
— Shirley Corder, Strength Renewed: Meditations for Your Journey through Breast Cancer
Do you know, Mrs. Allan, I'm thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much." "True friendship is a very helpful thing indeed," said Mrs. Allan, "and we should have a very high ideal of it , and never sully it by any failure in truth and sincerity. I fear the name of friendship is often degraded to a kind of intimacy that had nothing of real friendship in it.
— L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea
The library turned out to be a very pleasant place, but it was not the comfortable chairs, the huge wooden bookshelves, or the hush of people reading that made the three siblings feel so good as they walked into the room. It is useless for me to tell you all about the brass lamps in the shapes of different fish, or the bright blue curtains that rippled like water as a breeze came in from the window, because although these were wonderful things they were no what made the three children smile. The Quagmire triplets were smiling, too, and although I have not researched the Quagmires nearly as much as I have the Baudelaires, I can say with reasonable accuracy that they were smiling for the same reason.
— Lemony Snicket, The Austere Academy
My family of friends has kept me alive through lovers who have left, enterprises that have failed, and all too many stories that never got finished. That family has been part of remaking the world for me.
— Dorothy Allison
He understood it when other kids were mean to him. It didn't bother him. He simply hated them. As long as he hated them, it didn't matter what they thought of him.
— Louis Sachar, There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom
It's harder to hate someone when they like the same ice cream as you.
— Shannon Wiersbitzky, The Summer of Hammers and Angels
He's a unique dog, Mr. Bell had said. There is no other in the world that looks or acts just like him.
— Martha McKiever, Finn's Trail of Friends
Love yourself as you love your neighbour. If you love your neighbour with a heavy heart, love yourself too with a heavy heart.
— Israelmore Ayivor
And friends abroad must bear in mindFriends at home they leave behind.Oh, I shall be stiff and coldWhen I forget you, hearts of gold;The land where I shall mind you notIs the land where all's forgot.And if my foot returns no moreTo Teme nor Corve nor Severn shore,Luck, my lads, be with you stillBy falling stream and standing hill,By chiming tower and whispering tree,Men that made a man of me.About your work in town and farmStill you'll keep my head from harm,Still you'll help me, hands that gaveA grasp to friend me to the grave.
— A.E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad
Handy Hint! When your friend talks about having 'a sweep', do not then visualise Dick van Dyke in his cheeky chappy chimney sweeper outfit heading up into her uterus to do a rendition of 'Step in Time'. Laughter is the inappropriate response to your friend's news.
— Hadley Freeman, Be Awesome: Modern Life for Modern Ladies
Shane never knew how to address her friends' parents. She wanted to call her Mrs. Eliot's Mom, but knew that the cutesiness would not be appreciated. “Mrs. Kaspar” sounded too like a phone solicitor, which would not do after having kissed the circumference of her son's neck.
— Thomm Quackenbush, We Shadows
Margarita was never short of money. She could buy whatever she liked. Her husband had plenty of interesting friends. Margarita never had to cook. Margarita knew nothing of the horrors of living in a shared flat. In short... was she happy? Not for a moment.
— Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
Friends with benefits? More than friends? Don't sample the goodies unless you're willing to risk addiction and withdrawal.
— Ann Landers
Friends don't get jealous of each other or begrudge the other for finding success. They celebrate every victory together.
— Karen Kingsbury
If your best friend truly is the person who knows you completely and loves you anyway, wouldn't that be your mother?
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
You know, just sit in the corner and glare at him the whole time. See if he crumbles.” “I’ve seen your hard-ass face, Tuck,” Charlie said. “Mostly, you just look constipated. Ford, you’d better do the glaring.
— Julie James, Love Irresistibly
Tomorrow, smile at a perfect stranger and mean it.
— John O'Callaghan
I hate it when people talk like friendship is less than other kinds of - as though it's some kind of runner-up prize for people who can't have sex.
— R.J. Anderson, Quicksilver
All the faces on the photographs have changed,To not confuse it all, the names remain the same
— Antimatter
The disciplined Christian will be very careful what sort of counsel he seeks from others. Counsel that contradicts the written Word is ungodly counsel. Blessed is the man that walketh not in that.
— Elisabeth Elliot, Discipline: The Glad Surrender
A photo frame with many pictures is the best present ever for a long trip. I can almost feel all those moments..
— W.
Holding myself to perfectionistic standards, I used to think I had to become lifelong friends with everyone who entered my life. This was exhausting, and I now know it’s not true. I believe the old saying that people come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime.” (127)
— Jenni Schaefer, Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover from Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love with Life
You like him, Rose. Why don't you just admit that, at least to me?
— Louise Rozett, Confessions of an Angry Girl
Middle school is kind of like Middle-earth. It’s a magical journey filled with elves, dwarves, hobbits, queens, kings, and a few corrupt wizards. Word to the wise: pick your traveling companions well. Ones with the courage and moral fiber to persevere. Ones who wield their lip gloss like magic wands when confronted with danger. This way, when you pass through the congested hallways rife with pernicious diversion, you achieve your desired destination—or at least your next class.-CeCee, Lucy and CeCee's How to Survive (and Thrive) in Middle School
— Kimberly Dana, Lucy and CeCee's How to Survive (and Thrive) in Middle School