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Not all friends know they have lost you.
— Joyce Rachelle
As an introvert, you crave intimate moments and deep connections--and those usually aren't found in a crowd.
— Jenn Granneman, The Secret Lives of Introverts: Inside Our Hidden World
Nobody really wants to be your friend when they discover that you work with dead people.
— Rebecca McNutt, Restless Souls and Shallow Graves: A Short Story
Remember the friends who stuck with you when they thought you had nothing.
— Joyce Rachelle
If a normally kind, agreeable person makes an enemy of you, you ought to ask yourself why.
— Joyce Rachelle
It's funny how you can know a person, think of him as your closest friend, and still never gain access to the secret chambers in his heart.
— Jennifer Finney Boylan, Long Black Veil
I see it as symbolic. The label no longer fits. His emotional parsimoniousness just got sucked away by the beautiful blue sky. I lean forward and reach my hand behind my back, then take my sign off, and I toss it out the window, too. I am no longer an ex-stripper's daughter, either. I have gone from invisible Vera Dietz to invincible Vera Dietz.
— A.S. King, Please Ignore Vera Dietz
Is that the destiny of all friendships, no matter how good they are? To die out or fade away? To end?
— Sara Zarr, Roomies
There was a sudden flash of lightning which brightly illuminated our faces. I squinted against the harsh light. It was soon followed by the crack of thunder. The strong wind whipped our hair around our faces, and the younger girls squealed as they quickly ran across the grass to get inside the school.	Rose and I sat up, smiles on our faces as we listened to the weather’s dangerous melody. The third flash of lightning finally ripped open the sky’s belly. Freezing rain cascaded out, drenching us in a matter of seconds, the flower garlands drooping and lying limp on our matted hair.
— Erica Sehyun Song, Thorns in the Shadow
On a grim and dismal day that shattered my last ounce of confidence, I broke down and whimpered, “I’m awful and hideous and incompetent and boring and utterly useless.” And then you grinned at me and said, “That’s okay.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
The two of us locked up our own little secrets from the real world. We had experienced countless sleepless nights when we would share our fears, our worries, and our passions; when we would gossip about the school and the other girls. We had played too many pranks and snuck out more than enough times to be expelled if the teachers ever found out. We were professionals at the art of being discreet; however, we had never found sneaking out of a residence necessary, especially when the reason was not to play a prank.
— Erica Sehyun Song, Thorns in the Shadow
Friendship humanizes.
— Jason Gay, Little Victories: Perfect Rules for Imperfect Living
The rain landed on my skin with a barely audible patter and changed the tempo of its repetitive dance, letting the wind change its course and angle. The cold soon seeped through my dress and into my bones. An iris from my garland fell in my lap.
— Erica Sehyun Song, Thorns in the Shadow
I took my friend’s hand as she helped me up. With our hands still linked and our flower crowns tangled in our hair, we danced, laughing with joy, through the rain and towards the school, the lightning showing us our path with its powerful light.
— Erica Sehyun Song, Thorns in the Shadow
Reprove your friend in secret and praise him in public.
— Leonardo da Vinci, Thoughts on Art and Life
Making friends is not a big deal. Replacing me with them after talking to them for only one bloody day is a big deal.
— Erica Sehyun Song, Thorns in the Shadow
If I could have one friend,just one in all the world,I know that I would not seek outa boy or pretty girl.The friend I’d dare to chooseto stand by me each daywould be a dragon fierce enoughto scare the world away.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
We want the people around us to show us a satisfactory measure of genuine empathy, but no one has any idea what that looks like. This puts everyone in the precarious position of guaranteed failure. I know that no one knows how to deal with stuff like this. There are no experts here.
— Russ Ramsey, Struck: One Christian's Reflections on Encountering Death
I must be able to say, 'Percival, a ridiculous name'. At the same time let me tell you, men and women, hurrying to the tube station, you would have had to respect him. You would have had to form up and follow behind him. How strange to oar one's way through crowds seeing life through hollow eyes, burning eyes.
— Virginia Woolf, The Waves
In my 14 years of existence, I've never had a girl write nice things about me. I want to cry, and I think of that night with my mother, at the school social and how nice she and Noah were, and how kindness punches you in the heart more than meanness ever can. It's the most powerful weapon there is. And I wonder why people don't use it more often.
— Megan Jacobson, Yellow
As I load my shirt into the washer for the night, I daydream about making a sign and hanging it around my neck. I could wear it to school tomorrow. It could read, I MISS CHARLIE KHAN.
— A.S. King, Please Ignore Vera Dietz
Sometimes in life, people get closer, but their bonds wither in no time like the vapor. It takes just a moment to know somebody and it takes just a second to connect with somebody, but the journey there on is the ultimate thing! The true meaning of true friendship is always given by the friends!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
I wondered ...if meeting people with creativity and passion when you were at an impressionable enough age actually kind of ruined you for life among normal people. For a long time, I'd searched the world, thinking I could start up new friendships like the ones I'd had before. But I never met people like that again. I know people will think that's what everyone believes about their college friends, but it's true. Maybe we're like flowers that open up at that brief moment in our lives, and after that, we close up again, one by one.
— Jennifer Finney Boylan, Long Black Veil
It felt natural, somehow, to be beside him—natural and reassuring—like coming home after a long journey to finally sleep in your own bed.
— Mereda Hart Farynyk, Daughter of the Rain
Hugh and Fiona stood off to one side, their hands linked and foreheads touching, saying goodbye in their own quiet way. Finally, we'd all finished with Claire and were ready to go, but no one wanted to disturb them, so we stood watching as Fiona pulled away from Hugh, shook a few seeds from her nest of wild hair, and grew a rose bush heavy with red flowers right where they stood. Hugh's bees rushed to pollinate it, and while they were occupied– as if she'd done it just so they could have a moment to themselves– Fiona embraced him and whispered something in his ear, and Hugh nodded and whispered.
— Ransom Riggs, Library of Souls
And I want to be one of them. I want to be one of them so, so badly - to fit into this balance, their history, the wolf pack way of them. I see it now, why my mom wants that for me. I see how you can't help but want it, if you get close enough to witness a group of friends knitted together like this.
— Emery Lord, The Names They Gave Us
You know that I love you quite a lot --But sometimes... not. Sometimes not.I don't know why.I guess IJust hate you sometimes,Because sometimes I even hate myself,And she loves you.
— Margo T. Rose, The Words
I tend the flowers of my mindWatering our memories as they bloom
— Richard L.  Ratliff
That night, we talked the way old friends do, with candor and ease.
— Lang Leav, Sad Girls
Into the wind we vary,Our hearts free of youth,Mold me into envy,If I can’t have your muse;Under toe,Walk to the throne,After centuries of life.
— Adrianna Stepiano
It's not that I'm angry
— You've done nothing wrong.I'm just not sure why I'm stayingWhen you're already gone.
There's no room for me in your world
— It's time I stopped pretending.But nothing hurts me moreThan a friendship when it's ending.
Alice couldn’t explain why, exactly, but she knew now that things had changed between them. Oliver had become her friend in an absolute, uncomplicated way. She was done fighting him, and he was done lying to her.
— Tahereh Mafi, Furthermore
I know I've got no reason to be crying;I know that there is nowhere left to run.I know that there's no reason to be hiding,I'm just mad at everyone; mad at everyone.
— Margo T. Rose, The Words
Depression is my bestfriend
— Ali hassan hasan
Oh stupid, silly, awkward me;Will I never, ever see?People babble, speak, and talk;All I can do is stand and gawk!
— Margo T. Rose, The Words
You really are a dumbass.
— Stjepan Šejić, Sunstone, Vol. 5
You understand that proof of your friendship lay in keeping your distance, in accepting what was told you, in turning and walking away when the door was shut in your face instead of trying to force it open again
— Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
To no one, he knew, not even to Willem. But he'd had years to learn how to keep his thoughts to himself; unlike his friends, he had learned not to share evidence of his oddities as a way to distinguish himself from others, although he was happy and proud that they shared theirs with him
— Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
All the things that you said when you thought I wasn't there,I just tell them to my corner, 'cause no one else would care.That way, when I'm with you, I can keep a cheerful face,But for the moment, I really just need some space.
— Margo T. Rose, The Words
I can’t imagine anything more life-giving, more comforting, or more fun than being curled up andsurrounded by a group of women who know you deeply, and love you relentlessly.
— Stephanie May Wilson, Dear Best Friends, Where Are You?
The corner doesn't mind listening to the stupid things I say;Sometimes it's the only one keeping me from running away.And the corner never tells me things I'd rather never know;We became the best of friends long, long, long ago.
— Margo T. Rose, The Words
Sometimes, Anselm – and especially with the most important parts of our lives – we cannot share who we are. We can give the facts, as information, to a stranger; but with a friend we want to give that little bit more, something that changes the facts into flesh and spirit . . . and at certain times we can’t do it. Because ultimately we can’t give away our depths: they lie beyond our grasp. It is when we most want to do so that we realize how immense we are . . . more vast and mysterious than the night sky; and alone.
— William Brodrick, The Day of the Lie
(...) if that's what has to be. no good friends. No bad riends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.
— Stephen King, It
(...) if that's waht has to be. No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.
— Stephen King, It
Insightful, creative mind, dedicated, and wonderful friend and co-worker whom I had the privilege to work with in Mosul, Iraq ‘07. His understanding of life’s experiences and relationships is truly an art. His willingness to help a friend in need and go the “extra-mile” to get to know someone is amazing. Carl has truly been blessed with the gift of writing as a way of reaching out to others. It is a blessing to call him my dear friend.
— Carl Busby Sr, Poems from the Sand II
If we are fortunate, we get to experience a lifetime event, And in my case it was meeting a true friend that God sent. A friend is someone that I will always care for and cherish, There is a bond between us that I definitely won’t let perish.
— Carl Busby Sr, Poems from the Sand II
Making a million friends is not a Miracle. The miracle is to make A Friend who will stand by you when millions are against you....
— - Onanomous
Share yourself with me. I will never judge you. I am here and I will stay here only to love you.
— Kamand Kojouri
There's no love as real as that of a girl and her best friend.
— Catherine Doyle, Mafiosa
In times of adversity, you will realize who is there for you. The struggle is real and those who walk with you with love, are honorable true friends. Be thankful for the friends and loved ones you’ve got.
— Angie karan
Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
— Socrates
Lucy: Why do you want me to stay?Asher: Because I like you.Lucy: Why do you want me to go?Asher: Because I like you.
— Parker S. Huntington, Asher Black
It was fortunate that love did not need words
—  or else it would be full of misunderstanding and foolishness.
A new friend is always a miracle...One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
— Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
A friend is someone, who upon seeing another friend in immense pain, would rather be the one experiencing the pain than to have to watch their friend suffer.
— Amanda Gier
There isn’t a word for walking out of the grocery storewith a gallon jug of milk in a plastic sackthat should have been bagged in double layers—so that before you are even out the dooryou feel the weight of the jug draggingthe bag down, stretching the thinplastic handles longer and longerand you know it’s only a matter of time untilbottom suddenly splits.There is no single, unimpeachable wordfor that vague sensation of somethingmoving away from youas it exceeds its elastic capacity —which is too bad, because that is the wordI would like to use to describe standing on the streetchatting with an old friendas the awareness grows in me that he isno longer a friend, but only an acquaintance,a person with whom I never made the effort—until this moment, when as we say goodbyeI think we share a feeling of relief, a recognition that we have reachedthe end of a pretense, though to tell the truthwhat I already am thinking aboutis my gratitude for language—how it will stretch just so much and no farther;how there are some holes it will not cover up;how it will move, if not inside, thenaround the circumference of almost anything—how, over the years, it has given meback all the hours and days, all theplodding love and faith, all themisunderstandings and secretsI have willingly poured into it.
— Tony Hoagland
Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship – never.
— Charles Caleb Cotton
Friendship can be obtained from anyone at any time. It knows no difference between age, gender, or even species.
— Marlana Williams, Eagle in the Owl's Nest
Friendship, like other kinds of altruism, is vulnerable to cheaters, and we have a special name for them: fair-weather friends. These sham friends reap the benefits of associating with a valuable person and mimic signs of warmth in an effort to become valued themselves. But when a little rain falls, they are nowhere in sight.
— Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works
The more she was absolutely in need of external friendship, the more disposed was she to reject it, and to declare to herself that she was prepared to stand alone in the world.
— Anthony Trollope, The Belton Estate
Just friends, she reminded herself. They were only friends, and would only be friends from here on out. It was a friendship that was to be cherished, as she cherished all the friendships she'd made aboard this ship. She wouldn't ruin it by wishing things could be more. She would be grateful for what affection she did have.
— Marissa Meyer, Winter
The best gift your true friends will ever give you is carry your casket with respect. So be good to those you consider exceptional.
— Robert Kodingo
Passive-Aggressive behavior consumes unnecessary time and resources. Say what you mean, let's resolve the issue, and move on to more productive tasks.
— Izey Victoria Odiase
Ask the person who found you about what kind of people they were looking for before meeting you, as they may not know that they have found one of them already.
— Robin Sacredfire
Ask the person who found you about what kind of people she was looking for before meeting you, as she may not know that she has found one of them already.
— Robin Sacredfire
A good friend is a balm for the heart.
— Linda A. Tancs
Friendships take minutes to make, moments to break, years to repair
— Pierce Brown, Golden Son
The strangest thing about demons is that they come to love you. As much as they try to murder the very core of you when you first meet, they become your closest companions. I never asked for this devil on my shoulder. But my eyes are burning and I’m not alone. If you see a red gaze at midheaven, look away. It’s exactly as they say: hell is a hungry place.
— F.K. Preston
Terrell is weeping soundlessly, and despite the guard’s objection, he raises his hand up to the glass. Geraldine mimics him, lining her fingers up with his. It’s lonely to think that one little sheet of glass could create such a thick distance between them, but all the same, regardless of what he’s done, he’s still one of the closest friends she has.
— Rebecca McNutt, Listen is Silent, or The Usurer
We can easily be depleted from life and if we are truly lucky, we have that one friend who can replenish our love and peace. In our moment of revival, we can use that surrogate strength to create more... May we continue to make more.
— Karen A. Baquiran
... when people love you, they show up. Sometimes that means that they get to bail you out of trouble. It's not bad when that happens; it just means that you return the obligation when you get the chance. You be a guy who is present instead of a fuck-up.
— Jeremy Bushnell
‪To know someone is to have your own personal experiences with them, not lead by the opinion of others.‬
— Julian Quintero
Women helped each other in ways small and large every day, without thinking, and that was what kept them going even when the world came up with new and exciting ways to crush them.
— Alyssa Cole, Let Us Dream
Why not open the door, and open their arms, and close them again around each other? Did the not understand how, in the strange chemistry of human emotion, his suffering and her, mingled together, could... countervail each other?
— Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
Alas! I thought I had only a friendship for you, but the grief I now feel convinces me, that I cannot live without you.
— Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, Beauty and the Beast
He was easy to talk to, and easy not to talk to—equally important qualities in a friend.
— Phil Knight, Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE
Own your own dreams
— Noel David, The Clapping Man
Friendship is a weird sort of thing when you think about it.
— Rachael Lucas, The State of Grace
Every expression of desired friendship has potential bite. Every smile reveals the teeth.
— Dean Koontz, Velocity
So small footprint yet the shovelling jealous sea has not erased it.You were for me the necessary exemplary figure of dedication and endurance. Whatever your inner life truly was it was ardently pursued. You observed with acute imagination. When you spoke you drove to the heart of things though sometimes through wry indirection. You manifested the value of the life dedicated to an art. Whatever terrors you underwent they may have been very great you did not evince them. You were never indecent.Of course in making this thing about you or around you I am talking about my youth and homesick for it. But that is not the point. The point is that at one time in one place I met someone who became to me a living conscience.
— Lachlan MacKinnon, Small Hours
And then there are those you stop counting the years with because they are here to stay.They are here. And they aren't going anywhere.Nothing will make them flinch.Nothing will make them think twice.They know you at your worst,the worst you didn't even know you had.They know the sound of your mood swings, the color of your anger, how you curse when you curse, how you shout when you throw a tantrum. They know when you're avoiding a subject. They know when you're lying. They know when you're jealous. They know your vices by heart and they celebrate them. They celebrate you-- vices included.They know your lost dreams and how life fucked you over. They know the battles you lost. And they think your fabulous when you think you're just an unlucky mediocre person who once thought will make it big in life.They know the last time you were happy. They see the unspoken sadness in your eyes. They know the words behind your silence. They know the photographs playing in your mind when you're looking afar.They know YOU, the naked YOU, the raw YOU, not the embellished YOU people see, not the YOU that will be read in biographies or in elegies once you're dead, not the YOU that introduces you to others.They love you from the bottom of their heart. They are your family regardless of their blood. They are your squad. They are your people.And no matter how many times you make them open the door, they can't walk out. They just can't. Because, just sometimes, when people say forever, they mean it. They do.
— Malak El Halabi
The part of something is missing and the remaining part is itself not able to explain what part is missing.
— Neetesh Dixitxit
I thought he might kiss me as we sat shivering on the bank of the spring with our clothes soaked through and our feet dangling in the steaming water. We looked into each other's eyes the way I'd always imagined people did right before they leaned in closer and touched lips for the first time. But that was all we did. We looked at each other. Into each other. We were still clutching hands.
— Dana Reinhardt, The Summer I Learned to Fly
Yes you have returnedAnd things are as they wereBut this you cannot hide,A part of you has died.
— Joyce Rachelle
When he turned and walked into the living room he knew instantly why it was that he hadn’t wanted to come here, and that he ought to get out as soon as he possibly could. There, staring him in the face, was everything he’d been deprived of for the last five years.
— William Maxwell, The Folded Leaf
I felt tears pricking inside my eyelids. Maybe I came first with Oliver
— Jacqueline Wilson, The Illustrated Mum
I felt tears pricking inside my eyelids. Maybe I came first With Oliver.
— Jacqueline Wilson, The Illustrated Mum
Find someone you care enough about to help you control your drinking. Preferably yourself.
— Robert  Black
We can't deliver folks from their pits, but we can sure get in there with them until God does.
— Jen Hatmaker, For the Love: Fighting for Grace in a World of Impossible Standards
if you can ,gift a relationship to someone rather destroy a relationship to someone .
— litymunshi
There are people you meet that light the darkest corners of your mind. They don't ask you questions. They don't intimidate you. They just look at you and they smile. They smile because they know what it feels like to have been where you are or because they have this inner ability to understand where you are coming from. They don't hold your hand. They don't hug you. They don't tell you it's going to be okay or shower you with words of love. They give you some of their time and a bit of their presence. And something only few people really master:To listen genuinely to what you have to say.
— Malak El Halabi
Change is growth
—  love is never lost.
To be a MVF (Most Valuable Friend), you need to tell your friends the pure truth about themselves. However, how you tell them the truth is the difference between being a villain or a hero.
— Ben Tolosa, Masterplan Your Success
Cookies. A pin. I'm getting all kinds of gifts today. Madge gives me one more. A kiss on the cheek. Then she's gone and i'm left thinking that maybe Madge really has been my friend all along.
— Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
We might respect a serious person with an austere and rigid personality, but we adore merry, kindhearted, and artistic people.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
You said the d-word,” Owllwin said regretfully. “I didn’t think you would, or I woulda warned ya.”“ . . . the d-word?” Cricket repeated in confusion.“Yeah . . .” Owllwin paused as if he was glancing around, then he whispered through the wall, “Dragon.” Cricket blinked. “Why can’t I say that?
— Ash Gray, The Infinite Athenaeum
So young and so lethargic! As though he had been born to sit and stare like this. Ever since Kiyoaki had confided in him, Shigekuni, who would have been bright and confident, as befitted such an able young man, had undergone a change. Or rather, the friendship between him and Kiyoaki had undergone a strange reversal. For years, each of them had been extremely careful to intrude in no way on the personal life of the other. But now, just three days before, Kiyoaki had suddenly come to him and, like a newly cured patient transmitting his disease to someone else, had passed on to his friend the virus of introspection. It had taken hold so readily that Honda's disposition now seemed a far better host to it than Kiyoaki's. The first major symptom of the disease was a vague sense of apprehension.
— Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow
Don't get so focused on where you're going that you forget the people you're travelling with. There's no point reaching a destination if you arrive alone.
— Shaun David Hutchinson, At the Edge of the Universe
For us Deewan Bhai, whatever it takes
— Sanchit Gupta, The Tree with a Thousand Apples
Promise me Deewan bhai, you will not let Safeena become another Bilal.
— Sanchit Gupta, The Tree with a Thousand Apples
With so many people in the world i am confident in saying, if you connect with someone on a soul level you dont take them for granted.
— Nikki Rowe
Mindfulness develops the ability to be a real friend to ourselves.
— Mare Chapman, Unshakeable Confidence the Freedom to Be Our Authentic Selves: Mindfulness for Women
We live mindfully by harvesting evocative scenes to pay attention to including the mountains and oceans, flowers and trees, love and friendship, music and literature, art and poetry.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Don't be sorry;Don't you cry.It's enoughThat you tried.I love you,And that won't change.It's not your faultThings worked out this way
— Margo T. Rose, The Words
Owllwin was easiest the most contrary person Cricket had ever known. He was arrogant but humble, cowardly but brave, foolish but wise. He was funny, but sometimes she caught him crying when he was off on his own. It were as if he pushed himself to be a better person in spite of himself, in spite of his own failings, and Cricket secretly admired the fact: not many people were willing to admit they had faults in the first place.
— Ash Gray, The Infinite Athenaeum
Friends don't let friends go to hell."- Johann Gunter in "The Bucktown Babies
— Janine R Pestel
Long time friends have a way of touching and impacting our lives in ways never imagined. As we try to find our own place in this ever changing world, it's comforting to know, that even though separated by time, distance or circumstance, what remains constant is an unspoiled bond of love and loyalty that can be depended upon for a lifetime. One of God's most special gifts...is friendship.
— Jason Versey
Now, Max, I have told you many times that you are my publisher, and permanently, as far as one can fling about the word in this too mutable world....The idea of leaving you has never for one single moment entered my head.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
Whenever any of these new writers come up who are brilliant, I always realize that you have more talent and more skill than any of them;---but circumstances have prevented you from realizing upon the fact for a long time. [About F. Scott Fitzgerald]
— Maxwell Perkins, Dear Scott/Dear Max: The Fitzgerald-Perkins Correspondence
Mr Jenkins. Unique, as every star in the sky is unique, every leaf on every tree, every snowflake, every farandola, every cherubim, unique: Named.
— Madeleine L'Engle, A Wind in the Door
Some might wonder that the two men should consider themselves to be old friends having only known each other for four years
—  but the tenure of friendships has never been governed by the passage of time
There’s an innocence to her still that amazes me. Sometimes I forget she’s older than me. Then, I remember that she hasn’t gone through what I’ve gone through.
— Zoe Cruz, Beastia
We need those who laugh when we laugh, cry when we cry, and then pass the chips and salsa.
— Dawn Camp, The Gift of Friendship: Stories That Celebrate the Beauty of Shared Moments
Treasure friendship in whatever form it takes.
— Dawn Camp, The Gift of Friendship: Stories That Celebrate the Beauty of Shared Moments
Yet while Owllwin was arrogant, he was also humble enough to admit when he had made a mistake. Perhaps it was his sheer clumsiness that kept him so humble: the first time he spoke to Cricket was in the great dining hall, and he brought down six tables five minutes after.
— Ash Gray, The Infinite Athenaeum
Some people will hear you louder in silence. Those are your tribe - they'll get you through the tough days and give you something to laugh about on the ride.
— Nikki Rowe
Stitch tucked his knife into the utility belt he always wore around his waist. "Jerin, I'm going to miss practicing with you. Playing Knights and letting you win." He patted the man on the shoulder. "And filling your boots with slugs. Such great times." "That was you!" Jerin roared, his fingers wrapping around the leather covered hilt.
— Jackie Castle, Luminosity
Lotari turned back to the dance floor in time to see Stitch spin Carah before sweeping her into a low dip. Stitch grinned at Jerin and gave him a wink. Jerin's fist clenched. His face went from red to almost purple. Lotari thought he might need to intervene before this got out of hand and Jerin pulled out the sword. He glanced at Alyra. The bird was gone. The girl sat wide-eyed, her hands fumbling with something beneath the table. "Ooh, oh, my." The palomino stumbled. Lotari rushed over to help.  "Oh, my leg. My leg!" he limped, draping his arm over Carah's shoulder. "Please, my dear, help me over to my friends where I can rest it a moment. Ohhh, this is tragic. I was having such fun. Oh my." Lotari stopped, realizing Stitch had suddenly switched the leg he limped on. "I am sorry. You are such a marvelous dancer. Jerin, you must take her out for me. She is much too good to be another wallflower." Jumping right into the game, Lotari gave the big man a hard push. "Yes, you must." Carah's gaze narrowed on Stitch with suspicious amusement. Perhaps realizing the opportunity given her, she smiled endearingly, turning the solid young man into a puddle of mush. "I'll be most grateful if you could finish the song with me, Jerin." She even flipped her strawberry curls from her face. Perfect.Lotari wasn't sure, but thought Jerin said something that sounded like, "Ilbebbedgladtoooo."  As he led Carah to the dance floor, Stitch and Lotari clapped each other's back. "Well done, Son" Lotari looked toward Alyra. "Pure brilliance." She was gone.
— Jackie Castle, Luminosity
Books are our best friends we say, so can we call 'Paragraphs' as our 'Just Friends'?
— Bhavik Sarkhedi, The Weak Point Dealer
If the gate to your precious room is always left ajar, people shall least knock before entering into your precious room!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The naysayer has a place in your life, but if that is someone that you are considering to be your friend, do they truly add value in your life?
— Dee-Williams
I have this thing about friends and secrets. Sometimes when I meet a person I like, I tell them a secret they don't know me well enough to be told. It lets me judge their potential as a friend.
— Mohsin Hamid, Moth Smoke
Secrets make life more interesting. You can be in a crowded room with someone and touch them without touching, just with a look, because they know a part of you no one else knows. And whenever you're with them, the two of you are alone, because the you they see no one else can.
— Mohsin Hamid, Moth Smoke
May 4, 2006Blog Entry #1There once was a girl who took everything for granted.  She had friends. She had good friends—friends who saw her geeky exterior but loved her anyway, friends who had known her since before she knew herself. But she wanted more. She had people who loved her. She had a huge house on a hill. A bedroom as big as a studio apartment. But she still wasn't satisfied. She moved to the ends of the earth … Long Island, New York. She thought it would be exciting. And for a little while it was. But she soon found that life in the “city” wasn’t everything she hoped for. Before long, all the shops and landmarks were meaningless, and she realized that all the parties in the world meant nothing—especially if she didn't have the people to share them with. She decided to make a distress call. She lined up coconuts. H–E–L–PShe spent one and a half years on her “deserted island.” Then, a moving truck finally answered her call. But little did she know that she was returning to her home as a different person. She was returning with lessons of contentment that would stick with her forever. Lessons of gratitude, integrity, faith, and love. Exposure to things and ideas she would have never seen in Snellville, Georgia. How she could be and how her life could be… She drove back down only to find that she wasn't the only one who had changed.
— Jacquelyn Nicole Davis, Trace The Grace: A Memoir
William’s head tilted and the fluorescent lights above us reflected in his eyes, making them glow like translucent sapphires. “I wasn’t sure I had anything here in Providence drawing me back.” He studied my face and then smiled that schoolboy grin from all my memories. “But I don’t think Providence has seen the last of me yet.
— Robin M. King, Memory of Monet
I remember when I was five playing tag with Cara and her brother. I accidentally got pushed into the side of her trampoline, and I bit the inside of my mouth. Blood gushed everywhere. Cara’s mom held me until my parents came back. I didn’t need stitches, but it was nasty. I roll my tongue over a small bump on the side of my mouth. Yep. It’s still there. Real friendships have battle scars.
— Jacquelyn Nicole Davis, Trace The Grace: A Memoir
He gazes at the people in the truck. "Are you driving back with them?  Smiling, I nod. "Yes." "With a bunch of dudes?" "Yes." "Is that safe?" My smile expands into a face consuming grin. " I am safer in that truck than I am anywhere else.
— Jessica Sorensen, The Redemption of Callie & Kayden
They were all highly respectable in their professions and, together, practically unstoppable. But most importantly, they were on her side. She couldn't feel more blessed....or anxious. She sighed. *in italics* Forgive me, Lord, for being so antsy. For worrying, I know it adds nothing to my life or any help to the situation at hand, but it's my friend's disappearance that we're investigating, and I don't know where to start. I don't want to choose the wrong lead. Please direct our investigation and help me to bring Skylar home. I'm the reason she is the way she is. Please don't let it be too late. *end italics*
— Dani Pettrey, Still Life
So much of friendship is about being in the right place at the right time.
— Anna Quindlen, Every Last One
Sometimes, even those whom we consider as our close friends may betray us so easily, in a moment when we do not even expect it. Such is the truth of life, despite so many eloquent odes humanity dedicated to friendship.
— Sahara Sanders, INDIGO DIARIES: A Series of Novels
Somehow she knew there would be an unspoken truce on their unspoken battle over God knew what when they were old. They could both surrender to their innate grumpiness. It was going to be a lovely relief.
— Liane Moriarty, Truly Madly Guilty
It is much easier to make an Active Patriot into a friend rather than the other way around.
— Mike Klepper
Next time I walk away,” she whispered into his skin, “come with me.” She let her gaze drift up to his throat, his jaw, his lips. “When this is all over, when Osaron is gone and we’ve saved the world again, and everyone else gets their happily ever after, come with me.” “Lila,” he said, and there was so much sadness in his voice, she suddenly realized she didn’t want to hear his answer, didn’t want to think of all the ways their story could end, of the chance that none of them would make it out alive, intact. She didn’t want to think beyond this boat, this moment, so she kissed him, deeply, and whatever he was going to say, it died on his lips as they met hers.
— V.E. Schwab, A Conjuring of Light
Though I can make a friend in an hour, it will take a lifetime to cultivate a friendship.
— Jeffrey Fry
Family. Friendship. Loyalty. These things have been my guiding stars, my light in these dark times.
— John Gwynne, Ruin
My mom says . . . there are bad people who hurt others for fun . . . and there are good people who do it by accident. Like, they make a mistake? I think you're a good person.
— Svetlana Chmakova, Awkward
Penelope? Thank you. For not leaving me alone to deal with this . . . when things got hard. other people would have. You're a true friend.
— Svetlana Chmakova, Awkward
Ambition had a price, and that price was friendship.
— Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl
The most important things are the hardest things to say, because words diminish them...
— Stephen King, It
He had insinuated himself into Nina's life in a gentle, measured way, through small gifts and intelligent, respectful notes. His attention was never overbearing, nor disturbingly selfless, but wise and reserved.
— Daphne Kalotay, Russian Winter
Here’s my usual party strategy: find the liquor, find the food, find the space where two walls meet. Alienate enough people around you to have some breathing room. Find the attractive people—this shouldn’t take long; they’ll be the ones getting everything they want in life. Once you’ve found them, stare hungrily at them all evening, and interpret every alarmed flicker of eye contact from them as a new stage in your relationship.
— Isaac Oliver, Intimacy Idiot
I don't want to leave.
— Svetlana Chmakova, Awkward
She knew me beyond my actionsBeyond my shallow attempts at happiness.She knew I had darknessAnd when I undressedAnd showed her what I was made ofShe noddedKnowing I was unrepairableAnd said 'I'll be here for you anyway
— Stacy Morris, Notes to Self
I shrug and shuffle my toe across the carpet in front of me, feeling silly. "So? It's a compliment being like you."  All the humor evaporates from his face and his honey-brown eyes. Within seconds he has me in his arms and he hugs me like I'm the most important thing in the world to him. "Don't ever change, Callie Lawrence," he whispers in my hair. "Promise me you won't.
— Jessica Sorensen, The Redemption of Callie & Kayden
I wish I had a parabatai," Emma said. "It's like someone who's your family, but because they want to be, not because they have to be.
— Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire
And yet he found comfort in the absence of telling.
— Paul Yoon, Snow Hunters
Friends are squad. Squad is family. Family is forever.
— Malaika Gilani
Tibby, on the other hand, had spent hundreds and hundreds of hours with Brian striving for the comfort of not knowing.
— Ann Brashares, The Second Summer of the Sisterhood
We have reached a place too dark to see, so we shall go together.
— John Gregory Brown, A Thousand Miles from Nowhere
Son, don't mind what's missing. Count allthat's free: friendship, laughter, all thelove your heart can carry, and time -- count time.
— Nikki Grimes, One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance
To identity friend or foe is often impossible, unless someone commits a hostile act.
— General (Retd) Pervez Musharraf
The world needs someone they can admire from a distance
—  from a very far distance.
Kengi?""Yeah?"I take a deep breath. Try to count the stars. "What am I going to do?""About what?"I hesitate. "About everything."Kenji makes a strange sound. "Shit if I know.""I don't want to do this without you," I whisper.He leans back. "Who said you're going to do anything without me?"My heart skips a few beats. I stare at him."What?" he asks. Raises his eyebrows. "You're surprised?""You'll fight with me?" I ask him, hardly breathing. "Fight back with me? Even if it's with Warner?"Kenji smiles. Looks up at the sky. "Hell yeah," he says. "Really?""I'm here for you, kid. That's what friends are for.
— Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me
The sad fact is, there are 7.220.400.641 people on the planet, but right now I haven't got a single one to talk to.
— Holly Smale, Picture Perfect
she had no stay, no root in herself yet. Well do I know not one human being ought, even were it possible, to be enough for himself; each of us needs God and every human soul he has made, before he has enough; but we ought each to be able, in the hope of what is one day to come, to endure for a time, not having enough. Letty was unblamable that she desired the comfort of humanity around her soul, but I am not sure that she was quite unblamable in not being fit to walk a few steps alone, or even to sit still and expect. […] and now her heart was like a child left alone in a great room. She had not yet learned that we must each bear his own burden, and so become able to bear each the burden of the other. Poor friends we are, if we are capable only of leaning, and able never to support.
— George MacDonald, Mary Marston
Once we were in love, So I know it's true, the saying: True love never endsFor as much as I loved you when we were sweethearts, I love you even more Now that we are friends
— Karen E. Quinones Miller
A lonely soul is the best friend of itself
— Munia Khan
Disappointment comes from ExpectationExpectation comes from intimacyIntimacy comes from common interestAnd common interest comes from friendshipSo to nurture friendship, abandon expectation
— Uma Shanker
Why do you always rescue me?" — "Every Cinderella needs a fairy godmother. But sometimes your fairy godmother needs you right back.
— Holly Smale, Picture Perfect
And this way, l'll leave everything behind before it gets the chance to do the same to me.
— Holly Smale, Picture Perfect
Friends don't leave friends behind to wash dishes for yetis!
— Philip Reeve, Pugs of the Frozen North
But there are a few people in your life who become so much a part of you that it feels like you're missing a limb when they're gone.
— Melanie Shankle, Nobody's Cuter Than You: A Memoir about the Beauty of Friendship
Because that's what friends do. They speak the truth when you've lost your way, pick you up and brush you off , tell you that you're going to make it to the other side, and cheer you on until you get there.
— Melanie Shankle, Nobody's Cuter Than You: A Memoir about the Beauty of Friendship
When Perry and I walked into the hospital waiting room and I saw her sitting there, I began to cry, because that's what friendship looks like: knowing your friend better than she knows herself and being there to hold her hand while her heart breaks.
— Melanie Shankle, Nobody's Cuter Than You: A Memoir about the Beauty of Friendship
Some roads we travel in life can feel like the ones that might break us, but that's why God surrounds us with people who will cheer us on and wipe our tears and listen as we pour out our hearts. Because often, it's not what you say but what you do that really matters.
— Melanie Shankle, Nobody's Cuter Than You: A Memoir about the Beauty of Friendship
We both learned how to be a friend by watching the women who came before us. Women who taught us that it's okay to show someone who you really are-that when you stop hiding behind a mask of perfection and protection, you unlock something beautiful.... Our girlfriends weave a luminous thread from the women we are to the women we hope to become, We may never find perfection, but we'll never be alone.
— Melanie Shankle, Nobody's Cuter Than You: A Memoir about the Beauty of Friendship
It was the beginning of learning that I can't look to any one person to be my security blanket, and that my value goes deeper than one person's opinion of me. I learned that friendships are fragile and we need to handle them with respect and reverence.
— Melanie Shankle, Nobody's Cuter Than You: A Memoir about the Beauty of Friendship
I was firmly in the out-of-sight-out-of-mind camp, and had cogent, unflinchingly honest declarations I frequently made about losing a shared context, and sentimentalism, and the general faint hearted ness of most people-but I knew there were people in the world who remained friends, for life, with bunk mates from sleepaway camp, and this was that group of people.
— Gabrielle Hamilton, Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
If you block the person on whatsapp, facebook.who Caring you a lot and do -did -done everythink for you.Please suicide..........Its better option for you. you never know what you done.
— Arshdeep Singh Samrala
Individually, we are one drop.Together, we are an Ocean.
— Arshdeep Singh Samrala
So,' he says. 'When's the big day? Have you set a date yet?''What?' I startle. 'For what?''For the day you're going to stop being such a dumbass,' he says shooting me a sharp look.'Oh.' I cringe. Kick at the air. 'Yeah, that'll probably never happen.''Yeah, you're probably right.''Shut up.
— Tahereh Mafi
Forgiveness is the only battery that can power our relationship with God and other men like us.
— Bamigboye Olurotimi
Good values are like a magnet, they attract good people.
— John Wooden, Wooden on Leadership: How to Create a Winning Organizaion
Love puts itself first, and makes its own plans. It maps you out instead. Maybe that's what makes it perfect
— Holly Smale, Picture Perfect
As my intimacy with his family grew, I became part of the world which he sought to escape; I became one of the bonds which held him.
— Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
Rex, in his early forties, had grown heavy and ruddy; he had lost his Canadian accent and acquired instead the hoarse, loud tone that was common to all his friends, as though their voices were perpetually strained to make themselves heard above a crowd, as though, with youth forsaking them, there was no time to wait the opportunity to speak, no time to listen, no time to reply; time for a laugh — a throaty mirthless laugh, the base currency of goodwill.
— Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
They say that life is just a blank chain, and precious moments are the beads we hang off it to make it beautiful.
— Holly Smale, Picture Perfect
Without encouragement, what is the value of any meaningful relationship
— James E. Brown Jr.
I couldn’t quite believe how much I seriously loved Aled Last, even if it wasn’t in the ideal way that would make it socially acceptable for us to live together until we die.
— Alice Oseman, Radio Silence
Friends are sometimes the only thing that keep us from plunging into the abyss. But you have to reach for them, and they have to be there on the other side of the cliff reaching out to you too.
— Wendy Mills, All We Have Left
Sometimes words I think are small come out big.
— Corey Ann Haydu, The Careful Undressing of Love
How shallow is the stage on which this vast drama of human hates and joys and friendships is played! Whence do men draw this passion for eternity, flung by chance as they are upon a scarcely cooled bed of lava, threatened by the beginning by the deserts that are to be, under the constant menace of the snows? Their civilizations are but fragile gildings: a volcano can blot them out, a new sea, a sand-storm.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars
The stupid are always in a tendency to create enemies; on the other hand the clever are always in a tendency to create friendships! Make friends with anything or anybody possible, in short, be clever!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Storm Sister--a friend who sticks close when storms hit her friend's life.
— Afton Rorvik, Storm Sisters: Friends Though All Seasons
I can change my plans. But I can't change my family.
— Holly Smale, Picture Perfect
On our own, we’d look totally normal. Together, we’re something else. Together, we’re special.
— Corey Ann Haydu, The Careful Undressing of Love
She is her own definition of beauty. She is pure. She is majestic; mystical even. Her smile is always rejuvenating. Her presence is always illuminating. She is magic in thought, and magic in sight. She takes away your free will, and forces you smile. She takes away your fatigue, and only gives you strength. She always rouses my soul and makes me stretch for more. I lose no words for her. I lose no heartbeats for her. I love her. I adore her. And I won’t dance around her – I’ll embrace her. You are a magnificent friend, and the long awaited dream come true.
— Lionel Suggs