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I am always happy to meet my friend, and my friend is my weekend.
— Debasish Mridha
Always cherish your true friends who were there when no one else was.
— Heather Wolf
That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people would want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste.
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Don't be afraid to take the first step and speak from your heart.
— Nash
The two old friends stood silently in the fading light, though you wouldn’t have known it to look at them. That they were old friends, I mean. Anyone could see it was getting dark.
— Daniel Polansky, The Builders
There is something wonderful about old friends. They know everything about you, have been a part of your life for so long, that you can seamlessly pick up right where you left off.
— Preeti Shenoy, It Happens for a Reason
Will seeing me be a problem?”While there’s this overwhelming voice screaming yes in the back of my mind, there’s a smile twisting on my face and I bring my hands together in front of me, feeling suddenly shy. Did he just say...? “So we’re seeing each other?” Isaiah touches an earring. “Yeah. I guess we are.”My head bobs back and forth because I so need more. “Like more than friends?” “We can be friends if you want. But...”“But what?” My stomach begins to plummet. Did I misread all of this?His gray eyes bore into mine with an intensity I’ve never seen from anyone before. “But I want more.”“More?” I whisper.“I want to kiss you again.
— Katie McGarry, Crash into You
What are acquaintance for, if not to supply the pleasures of gossip?
— Zen Cho, Sorcerer to the Crown
... it is strange to know you would be cast off by the people who greet you so warmly, if they knew the whole truth about you.
— Zen Cho, Sorcerer to the Crown
Hey Alecto, film this!” she called out. With the slide being as tall as a two-storey house, it felt slightly risky being up there. “On second thought, why don’t you come up here? It’s a blast being up here.”“I don’t really like to be in high places,” said Alecto as he filmed her, the camera lens reflecting the entire playground, which was partially secluded by tall trees that cast otherworldly shadows dancing across the ground.“If you don’t like being in high places, then why’d you take so many drugs in the seventies?” Mandy questioned jokingly. “Do you want me to go up there and push you off the top of that slide?” Alecto threatened coldly.“You’d never do that, we’re best friends!” Mandy pointed out. She reached over and picked a bright red maple flower from one of the long branches of the trees, tossing it down to him. “Even in this failing 21st century, where people are cell phone addicts and crude humor and violence is the norm, even when society falls apart and drowns in its own mistakes, we’ll still be best friends!” She looked incredibly eccentric, never mind the fact that she was an adult woman wearing a trippy rainbow Pucci dress from the 1970’s, standing on top of a slide at a children’s playground. Alecto didn’t seem to mind, he just continued to film her with his camera like she’d asked him to.
— Rebecca McNutt, Super 8: The Sequel to Smog City
Part of not being a self-centered asshole, Colin reasoned, is doing things with your friends even when you don't want to.
— John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
If you are completely surrounded by the enemies, this proves that you are damn stupid in matters of making friends and such a stupidity, such a miserable clumsiness is your biggest enemy!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Caleb scowled into the darkness.“Hate sneaking around,” he complained. “Wish I could just blow the place up.”Then, with nothing else to declare, he set off again and Franz and Jimmy had to scramble to keep up.
— Jack Lewis Baillot, Brothers-in-Arms
I'm still the same guy you knew five minutes ago.
— Kelly Moran, Exposure
The Japanese have two words: "uchi" meaning inside and "soto" meaning outside. Uchi refers to their close friends, the people in their inner circle. Soto refers to anyone who is outside that circle. And how they relate and communicate to the two are drastically different. To the soto, they are still polite and they might be outgoing, on the surface, but they will keep them far away, until they are considered considerate and trustworthy enough to slip their way into the uchi category. Once you are uchi, the Japanese version of friendship is entire universes beyond the average American friendship! Uchi friends are for life. Uchi friends represent a sacred duty. A Japanese friend, who has become an uchi friend, is the one who will come to your aid, in your time of need, when all your western "friends" have turned their back and walked away.
— Alexei Maxim Russell, The Japanophile's Handbook
Those moments when we learn that mothers rage and fathers kill, that friends betray and authority is fallible, or that our own blank, innocent ignorance can destroy the pure, the good, and the loved are moments the very memory of which constitutes the beginning of a strategy to live in a world where such horrors exist.
— Samuel R. Delany, The Motion Of Light In Water: Sex And Science Fiction Writing In The East Village
Friends are the artists who paint happy lips on your face.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
My friend, I am not what I seem. Seeming is but a garment I wear - a care-woven garment that protects me from thy questionings and thee from my negligence
— Kahlil Gibran
There are only two people in your life, they will either give you a negative feeling, or a warm feeling, when you think of them.
— Robert  Black
I shrug. I don't really need to explain this to Aaron. He's been demoted from most important friend to friend, and he's going to have to earn that, even. And you know what else? I don't owe people anything, and I don't have to talk to them any more than I feel I need to.
— Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story
Oh, pish," Penelope said. "Anyone can fly. Anyone with a friend.
— Gemma T. Leslie
If you're worried that you won't know someone in a few years, you should start living in the present and enjoy the people who are around you now and when the time comes for both of you to part ways... remember that it was a privilege and honor to be part of their life's - even if it was for such a short time.
— Tiffany Walker
Of the Phoenix kids, the one Derek got along best with was Daniel. In him, Daniel had found a good sparring partner. And a plotting partner, too. Derek wasn’t just the biggest and strongest in our group. He was also the smartest. Scary, off-the-charts smart. That intimidated Daniel a little at first—he’s bright, but he needs to work for his grades. But Derek wasn’t a show-off or a know-it-all, so they got past that and we would hang out together, the two guys, Chloe, and I planning and plotting our future, bouncing ideas off one another.
— Kelley Armstrong, The Rising
I seriously have the best friends in the world.
— Evelyn Smith, The Summer of Secrets
New Year’s cards from friends — colored patterns of my life
— Mitsu Suzuki, A White Tea Bowl: 100 Haiku from 100 Years of Life
Always take the job, pursue the life, and have the friends that allow you to have as much freedom as possible.
— James Altucher, The Rich Employee
Some of our friends are our friends only because we used to be friends.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism
… and now and then we could look up and give each other a thought, because I think he could have beautiful thoughts,and we could just let each other be less lonely in our loneliness.
— Charlotte Eriksson, You're Doing Just Fine
To obtain wealth beyond measure, seek to make more friends than money.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
They’d never really been my friends; I didn’t cultivate friends, I had just inherited them from my husband.
— Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation
Any idiot or imbecile can easily make enemies
—  the important and the hard thing is to make friends easily and keep them as friends always!
Heaven's currency is friendship.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
Make friends not best friends,Make a crush not a lover,Because not everyone are meant to be with you always and when they leave or when they make you leave ,you are the one going to suffer the most..
— Akash B Chandran
Invest in friendships but be aware of those who only love your public success for personal gain. People who really love you cover your private failures!
— Chris Marvel, Love Laws "Rules of Love and Relationship in the 21st Century
Bert knows it would take more than a little row to get between us. Because friends like us, like Bert and me, we'll always be together.
— Jess Vallance, Birdy
Mr. ***** is blessed with such happy manners as may ensure his making friends -- whether he may be equally capable of retaining them, is less certain.
— Jane Austen
You can’t be friends with a droid.
— Chuck Wendig, Star Wars - Aftermath
You have to know yourself enough to be able to choose friends that you will be compatible with.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, Mirror
A friend is a stranger that you have come to know better.
— Debasish Mridha M.D.
If you want to have some fun ,Make some friends and have fun together.If you don't want to get hurted ,Be alone and nobody can hurt you.
— Akash B Chandran
A bad friend is is worse than an enemy, an enemy you can see and avoid, but to detect an insincere friend is hard
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
You will know a friendship is not natural when you don't feel relaxed with
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
But as they grew closer and closer, Sophie had opened Agatha's wings to a love so strong she thought it would last forever. It was she and Sophie against the world. But on that first day of school, watching Sophie with a prince, Agatha realized how blind she'd been. The bond between two girls, no matter how fierce or loyal, changed once a boy came between them.
— Soman Chainani, The Last Ever After
Today's enemies can be your friends tomorrow. And today's friends can be tomorrow's enemies.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Anyone can become your best friend when you spend time together and share your feelings about life. However, not every best friend can free you from yourself. This is when you reconsider the word "best" and decide to expand your circle to include others.
— Shannon L. Alder
Enemy: A friend whose mask has fallen
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
It hurts to get things out in the open, but it hurts even more not to.
— Chrissy Moon, DayDreamer
Today's opponents can be your allies tomorrow. And today's allies can be tomorrow's opponents.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Isn't it funny how we all will end up? Best friends today, communicating via internet tomorrow. Crush today, dancing at their weddings tomorrow.
— Manasa Rao
You do not need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends you can be certain of
— Itzik Amiel, The Attention Switch
Different people become different people when they meet different people.
— Timothy Joshua
Friend: A potential enemy with whom relations have not yet deteriorated to all-out war
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
You tell us about your other friends. You feel guilty speaking about them, but you are annoyed, frustrated. You don't always trust their motives. You feel pressured by their demands on you. You're worn out by the effort it takes to be with them, to feign interest in their stream of never-ending problems.
— Aryn Kyle, Boys and Girls Like You and Me: Stories
The body is not a reliable friend
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
Very well.""Say it.""Say what?""Say my name. Say, 'Very well, Dorian.'"She rolled her eyes. "If it pleases Your Magnanimous Holiness, I shall call you by your first name.
— Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass
He picked out a neon-green Sour Patch Kid and held it in front of her face. "Do you accept this little sugar man and his mission to bring you peace and fulfillment with the risk of a major sugar crash to follow?""I do," she said. "I accept the terms of the tiny sugar man, and the wrath of my impossible mother.
— Kate Scelsa, Fans of the Impossible Life
Alecto Sydney Steele, an entity of few words whom society managed to overlook as it rapidly dove into the 21st century. Everything about him, his interests, his friends, his own life, was constantly in danger of becoming an anachronism. And caught up in that mess was Mearth, not exactly evil in nature but just misunderstood. A very long time ago Alecto’s life had been all incandescent sparkles and Kodachrome, but that was before the environmental movement changed Mearth from a perfectly nice and kind guardian, to a deranged and malevolent monster.
— Rebecca McNutt, Super 8: The Sequel to Smog City
Be someone’s security blanket when theirs is in the wash.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
Dogs are loyal friends, and if they could talk, your secrets would still be safe. (If my cat could talk, I’d have to let the dog eat her.)
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
Souls from the same star find it impossible to resist dancing to the tune of inevitability.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
strangers were just people he hadn’t become friends with yet.
— Eric Walters, Between Heaven and Earth
You're supposed to raise your friends up, not be happy when they fail.
— Jen Calonita, Paparazzi Princess
So friends, get out of your comfort zone. Don’t be afraid of pain. Confront your pains
— Sunday Adelaja
Without risks my friends there is no progress, no advancement either in science or technology.
— Sunday Adelaja
A friend isn't someone you use once and then throw away, a friend is someone you use over and over again.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
Discipline friends is the master of excellence.
— Sunday Adelaja
If you go to anybody and ask them, what is your dream life? They would say I want to sit by the TV all day. I want to play with my friends all day and they think that is the best way to spend their lives. They do not know that what they have just listed is not living life but wasting life.
— Sunday Adelaja
Friendship Lasts long when the terms are clear!
— Ritu Raj
Ideally, friends are people with whom we can be our true selves, with whom we can fearlessly let our guard down. (Arguably, a close friend is someone with whom we can allow ourselves to enter the daydreaming attentional mode, with whom we can switch in and out of our different modes of attention without feeling awkward.)
— Daniel J. Levitin, The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
The glue between the horn that pushes and the sinew that pulls. The glue gets ignored, but you know, Ahai, up to half of a bow is glue. I suspect Ogodoi is the son I can least afford to lose.
— Bryn  Hammond, Amgalant Two: Tribal Brawls
Friends, are you a man according to Gods definition? Have you ever placed yourself under God’s microscopic eyes? Have you examined yourself according to his standards of judgment? Does he call you a man
— Sunday Adelaja
Friends, since when has irresponsibility become a Nigerian factor?
— Sunday Adelaja
Prisons are full of sociopaths and psychopaths, but when questioned, the imprisoned sociopath will honestly admit that they will commit any number of crimes to help a f
— Tanya Thompson, Assuming Names: A Con Artist's Masquerade
Even though Ronan was snarling and Noah was sighing and Adam was hesitating, he didn’t turn to verify that they were coming. He knew they were. In three different ways, he’d earned them all days or weeks or months before, and when it came to it, they’d all follow him anywhere.
— Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys
Pigs should not make friends with butchers. One must choose one's friends wisely.
— Erik Pevernagie
A true friend is someone you can count on no matter what.
— Bohdi Sanders, Modern Bushido: Living a Life of Excellence
Friends are a wonderful thing. They won't make you feel like a nothing.
— Justine Hail
Here is the voice of my main Character in my Talon book series, I’ll let her introduce herself to you:My name is Matica and I am a special needs child with a growth disability. I am stuck in the body of a two year old, even though I am ten years old when my story begins in the first book of the Talon series, TALON, COME FLY WITH ME. Because of that disability, (I am saying ‘that’ disability, not ‘my’ disability because it’s a thing that happens to me, nothing more and because I am not accepting it as something bad. I can say that now after I learned to cope with it.) I was rejected by the local Indians as they couldn’t understand that that condition is not a sickness and so it can’t be really cured. It’s just a disorder of my body. But I never gave up on life and so I had lots of adventures roaming around the plateau where we live in Peru, South America, with my mother’s blessings. But after I made friends with my condors I named Tamo and Tima, everything changed. It changed for the good. I was finally loved. And I am the hero and I embrace my problem. In better words: I had embraced my problem before I made friends with my condors Tamo and Tima. I held onto it and I felt sorry for myself and cried a lot, wanting to run away or something worse. But did it help me? Did it become better? Did I grow taller? No, nothing of that helped me. I didn’t have those questions when I was still in my sorrow, but all these questions came to me later, after I was loved and was cherished. One day I looked up into the sky and saw the majestic condors flying in the air. Here and now, I made up my mind. I wanted to become friends with them. I believed if I could achieve that, all my sorrow and rejection would be over. And true enough, it was over. I was loved. I even became famous. And so, if you are in a situation, with whatever your problem is, find something you could rely on and stick to it, love that and do with that what you were meant to do. And I never run from conflicts.
— Gigi Sedlmayer
In my experience, people who don't stick around during the hard times weren't worth having around anyway.
— Kimberly Belle, The Ones We Trust
He could have been invisible and it wouldn’t have made a difference to them. He didn’t care, so long as he felt at ease, which was his original intention. He wasn’t there to make friends, nor did he want to.
— Jason Medina, A Ghost In New Orleans
Your loyalty to friends and family should have no limit, although it may be expressed in ways that others cannot understand.
— Bohdi Sanders, Modern Bushido: Living a Life of Excellence
Logan folded his arms. His voice was granite."My word stands.""Can you love an idea more than you love a man and not become a monster? How many friends will you sacrifice on the altar of Justice, Logan?""If you force my hand, at least one."They were standing on a precipice. Socially, Logan had always been Kylar's superior. Morally, Kylar had always felt inferior, too. But they'd never been placed in a direct hierarchical relation. Now Logan was giving an order. He would not be moved.Kylar could only accept his order and accept all his orders henceforth, or reject it and them forever. There was a part of him that yearned to obey. He was convinced that killing Terah was the right thing, but Logan's moral compass was a more accurate instrument than Kylar's. What was it about submission that was so hard? Kylar wasn't being asked for blind servility. He was being asked to obey a man he knew and loved and respected, who in turn respected him.'The wolfhound is pampered by the fire. The wolf is hunted in the cold.'"Do you know how much I love you, Logan?" Kylar asked. Logan opened his mouth, but before he could say a word, Kylar said, "This much." And left.
— Brent Weeks, Beyond the Shadows
You'll find you spend half your second year shaking off the undesirable friends you made in your first...
— Evelyn Waugh
Just a simple prayer today, for those who are sick or going through darkness of any kind. Dear God, we ask that you place your healing hands on the shoulders of our friends and loved ones, who are suffering and relieve them of these hardships, in Jesus name. Amen.
— Ron Baratono
The one thing you don't do is screw with me, or I'll make your life a living hell; and trust me I'll make sure you burn!
— Anonymous
Together we would make reputation, we would have men in halls across Britain telling the story of our exploit. Or of our deaths. They were friends, they were oath-men, they were young, they were warriors, and with such men it might be possible to storm the gates of Asgard itself.
— Bernard Cornwell, Death of Kings
A life without enemies is a life not lived.
— Andy Seven, Wranglers' Canyon/Crash Walker
Get out of my chair, dillhole!
— A.A. Milne
When we are in the dark, true friends are like a ray of light from heaven.
— Biju Karakkonam Nature and Wild life Photographer
Beauty, business, blogs, & bullshit...never a dull conversation with your friends you have tons in common with.
— April Mae Monterrosa
I felt part of a group for the first time in my life. Not a family, just a group of people who liked being together, who sat as we did, leaning towards each other, leaving just the right amount of space in between, whose thoughts and words flowed easily and naturally, whose voices and accents were so different from each other and yet mingled in harmony as though in a song.
— Indu Muralidharan, The Reengineers
I think it would have to be the way that my sister looks at you when you can’t see it.”	“Yeah? And how’s that?” he asked, very interested in the answer.	“Oh, you know,” she said coolly, “like you’re the air she needs to breathe.
— L.A. Kuehlke, Pursuit
I guess you were not my friend then, that's okay. I can see my true self, I can see yours, now. I guess that you did not look hard enough at mine. Or you would never have let me go.
— Tina J. Richardson
There are two types of friends in life: The friendly and the unfriendly friends. Your friendly friends are there to pull you back up whenever your spirit is down. Whereas your unfriendly friends are only there to pull you down whenever you are moving up, and would do whatever it takes to keep you down and helpless. Please choose wisely.
You will meet a lot of people in your life; some laugh with you, others will laugh at you; some will love to clean your mess, others will love to mess you up! Love all, but choose carefully the one who stays close to you forever!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Be worried if you always flock in the company of people who peel off other people's skins with their teeth in their absence. A time will come when they'll try to pick a bite on you too!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Two friends raised their heads up to the sky on a dark evening.-Look at the stars.--Let us make a wish.They each took a moment of silence.-What did you wish for?--For you to have peace with your wish.
— J.R. Rim
Books are the best companions as they make you sit near wisdom.
— Rajesh Nanoo
Memories stuck under our shoes like thick mud
— Mohamed Ghazi, Honest
It's just one more thing she hadn't considered, and as the idea of it settles over her, she realizes again how entwined their lives are. They're like two trees whose branches have grown together. Even if you pull them out by the trunks, they're still going to be twisted and tangled and nearly impossible to separate at the roots.
— Jennifer E. Smith
He will be with his friends, and that always feels like coming home.
— Stephen King, Dreamcatcher
They were actually sitting at a table, like two old friends, not like the hunterand the hunted. And it wasn't especially awkward. They were comfortable together,despite the fact that she'd hit him with a bus. Maybe his scheme would work.
— Janet Evanovich, The Heist
But none of that really mattered. I had found my tribe. It felt like a family reunion for the family I'd never really known, a homecoming at the place where I was always meant to be nut hadn't known how to find.
— David Levithan, Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story
For my friends do not desert me, and life stays; for those two things I must be grateful.
— John  Williams
In a useful conversation... there is a double coincidence of wants. You have to be interested in what I have to say; I have to be interested in what you have to say. This is an important reason why people with conventional interests seem more socially intelligent. Even if they don't check whether their audience cares, it probably does.
— Bryan Caplan
Friend," replied Michael Strogoff, "Heaven reward thee for all thou hast done for me!""Only fools expect reward on earth," replied the mujik.
— Jules Verne
Peering around her, I took note exactly where the hundred metre high cliff started. i didn't want to be taking an unexpected flying lesson today.
— Kelly Batten, One Day You'll Find Me
Who was that?” Layetta asked.“Nobody.”“You can’t take a phone call from nobody. That meansthere is no one on the other end of the phone, meaning no phone call. So. Who was it?” I asked.
— Kelly Batten, One Day You'll Find Me
After months of separation her friends still catalyzed her thoughts and challenged her opinions and wrangled with her emotions, and she was relieved to see that they still slid into the familiar patterns, the comfortable ruts of long-established personalities. It was nice but it also worried her. Could there be room for growth? How could you change around the people that knew you best, who knew you backwards and forwards and knew you so well that they defined themselves by you and you by them? How could you possibly evolve, like really evolve and become a whole person all on your own, when your own makeup was inextricably intertwined with someone else’s perception of themselves?
— Katie Neipris, The Inconvenient Process of Falling
You two would get on like a house on fire. Don't douse the flames before you've struck a match.
— Kelly Batten, One Day You'll Find Me
My mouth fell open in incredulity.“Ah, Maria. Are you trying to tell me you’ve taken up the sport of fly-catching with your mouth?”Ros reached over and lifted my chin.“And an assistant too. So that you don’t scare the little flies away. How wonderful; I didn’t realise it was a team sport. Interesting. Tell me, what do they taste like? I can’t imagine a fly filling any hole in your stomach. How many have you caught?”“That’s disgusting.” Ros screwed her face up.“My thoughts exactly.
— Kelly Batten, One Day You'll Find Me
You weasel, good-for-nothing, scumbag, swine,sleazebag, scumbucket, scoundrel, son-of-a-bitch!”In the midst of everything, we all looked at Rosina,who smiled sheepishly.“Sorry. I was reading the Dictionary the other day.”I stared at her with incomprehension.
— Kelly Batten, One Day You'll Find Me
I hate smug people.”Ros laughed. “That you do. And so you’re using his phone. He’ll explode, you know.”“Oh, it’ll be bad. ‘Cause I made all the phone calls on my list.”There was a pause. “No. You didn’t.”“I did.”“Fifty-one phone calls on the off-limits phone?” “Yup.”“Did you fall down the stairs or something? What is wrong with you?!
— Kelly Batten, One Day You'll Find Me
Enemies who vow not to see you achieve it and friends who say you can't do it... ARE THE SAME...!!! They just don't want you to make it happen! Stay away!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Try not to be the kind of friend who only makes friends when in desperate need of financial help.
When you come to know God personally and He becomes your close Friend, you will live an easy and fulfilled life.
— Sunday Adelaja
Through the twist and turns of life, I find myself so grateful for my friends. Even though sometimes the days can seem so dark, and my heart can feel so hurt, I am never alone; my friends are beside me.
— Steve Maraboli
One main reason why most dreamers cannot take their dreams off the ground is that they keep their ideas to themselves alone. The fact that you think you can make it alone is the first step to your failure!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
To my beloved friends, there’s simply no life without you guys. Thanks for the advice and the love and the billion dinners and laughs. Without you all . . . I’d look for new friends and get them.
— Martin  Short, I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend
Friends are not a number. You can't collect connections. You can't just go out one day and be like, "Hey, I need some friends!" *goes shopping, scours social media*
— Connor Franta, A Work in Progress
Be careful of who becomes your friend and why. The person who will bite off your lips one day will have to first promise you a kiss today. Be careful of hypocrites.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
If I’m not around I hope you’ll remember me and together we will hold on to our favorite song.
— Sanober  Khan
The problem with having friends was that you might lose them. Or they might get hurt.
— Gwenda Bond, Fallout
I'm honestly ashamed to call you my friend sometimes.
— Whitney G., Sincerely, Carter
They don't sell friends in stores....
— Whitney G., Sincerely, Carter
The friends who would forsake you for choosing to live a positive life, would also leave you if you find yourself going through some painful consequences due to some negative decisions and actions.
I wish everyone had someone who never popped their balloons.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
All the recognizable cliques came by, and so did those un-groupable stragglers who were known by their little circles of two or three.
— Adi Alsaid, Never Always Sometimes
I know this sounds very Neanderthal but I want a man that would just take me, ravage me, and do what he pleases with me. I frankly don’t care what he does or how he does it. I just want it to be fucktastic. I want some bodies slamming, head banging, and wild animalistic beastie craze sex. You Jane, me Tarzan kind of sex.
— Dee Dinh, Sin of Attraction
Please allow me the honour of allowing you to bestow upon me a blowjob.
— Daniel Clowes, Ghost World
When the love-led man had ceased from his labours Bathsheba came and looked him in the face.'Gabriel, will you you stay on with me?' she said, smiling winningly, and not troubling to bring her lips quite together again at the end, because there was going to be another smile soon.'I will,' said Gabriel.And she smiled on him again.
— Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
You turn friends away before you discover they were good after all
—  you give up on your dreams before you realize you were very close to your success all that while. Be patient
Now of all the bonds between homosexual friends, none was greater than that between friends who danced together. The friend you danced with, when you had no lover, was the most important person in your life; and for people who went without lovers for years, that was all they had.
— Andrew Holleran, Dancer from the Dance
To be successful, you need friends. To be very successful, you need enemies.
— Ari Gold
Beware of unfriendly friends who come nicely dressed in friendly suits.
I want friends, not admirers. People who respect me for my character and my deeds, not my flattering smile. The circle around me would be much smaller, but what does that matter, as long as they're sincere?
— Anne Frank
We were friends, never paramours. A lover who is enigmatic will most likely prove to be a cataclysm waiting to happen. But a charming friend whose usual warmth is raveled through moments of cool inscrutability can be an intriguing companion.
— Dean Koontz
Always abide by your positive principles even if it would result in most of your friends abandoning you. Friendship is about quality not quantity.
Every friend we have represents a new world, a world that may not have existed had they not come into our life.
— Steven Aitchison
Its not about the place we want to visit , its about with whom we visit.
— Sachin Keely
A good friend will bail you out of jail. A true friend will be sitting next to you saying, 'damn, we fucked up'.
— Rotten eCards
Be careful of the friends you frequently expose your mind to, because they could succeed in realigning the direction of your life.
Remember: If someone's trying to pull you down that means they're already beneath you.
— Karen Salmansohn
Fitting in is about assessing a situation and becoming who you need to be to be accepted. Belonging, on the other hand, doesn’t require us to change who we are; it requires us to be who we are.
— Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
Breezy daysdeserve the unionof two old friends.
— Sanober  Khan, A touch, a tear, a tempest
I wasn't concerned, but I was thinking that the fastest way to get your mind off him and on me would be to tell you something truly appalling about him.
— Jodi Meadows, The Orphan Queen
Trust not yourself; but your defects to know,Make use of ev'ry friend—and ev'ry foe.
— Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism
The thing about friends is, you never know when you might need them. It's always best to keep them imprisoned nearby.
— Heidi Schulz, The Pirate Code
Whoever is present in your spring would more than likely have respected your winter.
— Johnnie Dent Jr.
i also say you can tell your true friends, by the ones who put a bucket by your bed when your drunk and going to be sick - (my quote - so proud)
— J. Yates
Always dare to be in the company of those stronger than you. Sooner or later, you will be stronger than those who were once stronger than you, but unfortunately, they joined the company of those who are weaker than them!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Watchwords
The survival rate of your passion depends on the kind of person that leads you!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Watchwords
In life we meet many people. some people remain in touch and some contacts are dumped in recycle bin of mind. we expect somethings from people in our life but sometimes those expectations remain unnoticed and incomplete. getting depressed in such condition is natural but if we try we can minimize this amount off hearty hurt.
— Auliq Ice
Pay heed, my darlings, and always take the greatest care over the company you keep in life: if death strikes you without warning, you may be stuck with them til the moon turns to blood and wouldn't that be a torment?
— Karen Maitland, The Vanishing Witch
LAST YEAR, Honesty and I still talked, Laughed, Planned weekend activities together. Last year, I used to have friends, Speak, Live. Last year, Honesty lived, Loved, Laughed. But now— Now I live with the knowledge that Some things Kill others
— Elana Johnson, Elevated
Good friends are divine instruments.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Now, see, that's why everybody wants Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. Screw your neighbors and your family, too messy.' Dovey's phone buzzed, and she laughed, ignoring it. 'The trouble is, once you filter out everybody that doesn't agree with you, all that's left is maybe this one retired surfer guy living in Idaho.
— Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior
Were men and women ever really just friends?
— Jaycee Ford, Dragonfly Awakening
Strangers," the Blue Man said, "are just family yo have yet to come to know.
— Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Stop complaining about friends who make your life miserable, and start surrounding yourself with positive minded individuals who would lift you up and show you the path to a blissful and successful future.
Keep your friends close and your enemies dead.
— Paul  Dale, The Dark Lord's Handbook
old stories are like old friends (...) you have to visit them from time to time.
— George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow
It is always painful to part from people whom one has known for a brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity, But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.
— Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
our feet are grape-squashed in memoriesour skins are still flushedfrom the touch of summer’s lips.
— Sanober  Khan, A touch, a tear, a tempest
You should find something better to do with your time,” Mandy told him. “I spend my time shooting people, and then I take them to darkrooms and blow them up.”“…Come again?” Alecto questioned with a tone of alarm in his voice. “I take photographs and develop them myself, I’ve got my own darkroom… it was a joke,” Mandy laughed. “I love photography and I’m gonna be a photojournalist someday.”“Really?” Alecto asked. For the first time since she’d met him, he sounded slightly enthusiastic. “…I take photographs and I film my own home movies, I have a darkroom as well… but I can’t be a photojournalist like you… I can’t be anything… still, at least I can take photographs, it’s fun.
— Rebecca McNutt, Smog City
I’m glad we can be friends.”There’s that word again. It’s like a safe word.
— Alex Rosa, Tryst
The truth is - people won't believe you, they won't care for you, they won't give you time or attention, but once you do something that is 'big' in their eyes, you will get it all. Then suddenly you become everyone's friend, everyone seems to have time for you. The people who ignored you earlier will tag you in their posts to gain publicity. And all of a sudden, you become the 'new' inspiration. But the ones who always support you will still call you by your pet name, tease you by those old names and will be there for you like before.The 'key' to life is - knowing who is permanent and who is temporary. The people who are with you in your struggle, are the people who deserve to eat a slice of your success, and the people who are there right after your success, are the ones who should be kept at a distance, for those people would be the first ones to run away if you are in any problem.This life is too short to be lived in any fake fame or publicity. Know your real friends, and know their worth, because if they're lost, the meaning of your life is lost...
— Mehek Bassi
The gods hate those who plan badly, and help those with good friends, good swords, and good sense.
— Joe Abercrombie, Half the World
Some people will only love you as much as they can use you. their loyalty ends where the benefits stop.
— honeya
Some people will only love you as much as they can use you, their loyalty ends where the benefits cease.
— honeya
Friendship is a door you will never need to knot on as you will always have a key.
— Wes Adamson
Two people that have the same wants are two people that should be friends.
— Shannon L. Alder
I guess we all travel through life in a haze of sorts. A fog. The people we only meet in the fog we allow ourselves to lose because it’s not our fault. It’s the fog’s. The people we latch onto—they become our friends. It was my friendship with Ethan that took me out of the fog.
— J. Richard Singleton, Glyphics
We're the Septembers now. The real ones. We are everything to one another. We don't need to say so; it's just true. Sometimes it seems like we're so close we form one single complete person rather than four separate ones. We settle into types- Bridget the athlete, Lena the beauty, Tibby the rebel, and me, Carmen, the...what? The one with the bad temper. But the one who cares the most. The one who cares that we stick together.
— Ann Brashares, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
At first, some friends who are actually 'unfriendly friends,' would laugh at your faith in succeeding with your dream, because they would judge you based on your past failures and mistakes. But later on, they would become very jealous when they start to notice that you are succeeding in an extraordinary way, and continuously proving them wrong.
I gather we're old friends.""By my standards. I daresay you measure your friends by the years you have known them, but you're wrong. Friendship is not measured in years.
— Amanda Hemingway, The Poisoned Crown
I ain't got no money, I ain't got no car to take you on a date, I can't even buy you flowers, but together we'll be the perfect friend.
— Genereux Philip
Caitlyn (telling a story of her friend): So. [She] grew up and left Neverland for the distant planet called College...And made a bunch of new friends. So. There was the one guy who was there since the beginning basically...Zechariah: Since the beginning? 
— Zechariah Barrett
Friends are won through personal contact, but admirers are won through their contact with our works
— Agona Apell, The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning Men from Rot to Rock
The obvious," Noah goes on, a little out of breath, "being that he is probably some super secret assassin or something. And I'm not as tough as I look.""That's OK," I tell him. "I'm way tougher than you look.
— Ally Carter, All Fall Down
Friends help each other when they are...you know...going up international hit men and stuff.
— Ally Carter, All Fall Down
now it’s computers and more computersand soon everybody will have one,3-year-olds will have computersand everybody will know everythingabout everybody elselong before they meet them.nobody will want to meet anybodyelse ever againand everybody will bea recluselike I am now.
— Charles Bukowski, The Continual Condition: Poems
...Sleepovers and dance parties and those talks we would have until three in the morning that would make us feel lousy the next day because we’d slept like hell but also feel good because the talks were like blood transfusions, moments of realness and hope that were pinpricks of light in the dark fabric of small-town life.
— Gayle Forman, I Was Here
What people think of you is only what they think of themselves. They look at you and see the maladies, the faults they've been carrying within themselves for the longest time. And they identified each flaw they found exactly because of this familiarity and acquaintance with their very own symptoms. How else did they recognize them in you?
— Shakieb Orgunwall
Just as the hand rushes involuntarily to protect one's honor in case of accidental state of undress, so does a friend come to his friend's aid without being asked
— Thiruvalluvar, Thirukkural
If you are a warrior, the nature and scale of your enemies will determine the nature and scale of your actions. In this sense, it is even more important to choose your enemies more wisely than your friends.
— CrimethInc., Contradictionary
Everyone who is with you is not necessarily for you.
— Connie R. Clay
Ah, I believe Schacht. Only too willingly; that’s to say, I think what he says is absolutely true, for the world is incomprehensibly crass, tyrannical, moody, and cruel to sickly and sensitive people. Well, Schacht will stay here for the time being. We laughed at him a bit, when he arrived, that can’t be helped either, Schacht is young and after all can’t be allowed to think there are special degrees, advantages, methods, and considerations for him. He has now had his first disappointment, and I’m convinced that he’ll have twenty disappointments, one after the other. Life with its savage laws is in any case for certain people a succession of discouragements and terrifying bad impressions. People like Schacht are born to feel and suffer a continuous sense of aversion. He would like to admit and welcome things, but he just can’t. Hardness and lack of compassion strike him with tenfold force, he just feels them more acutely. Poor Schacht. He’s a child and he should be able to revel in melodies and bed himself in kind, soft, carefree things. For him there should be secret splashings and birdsong. Pale and delicate evening clouds should waft him away in the kingdom of Ah, What’s Happening to Me? His hands are made for light gestures, not for work. Before him breezes should blow, and behind him sweet, friendly voices should be whispering. His eyes should be allowed to remain blissfully closed, and Schacht should be allowed to go quietly to sleep again, after being wakened in the morning in the warm, sensuous cushions. For him there is, at root, no proper activity, for every activity is for him, the way he is, improper, unnatural, and unsuitable. Compared with Schacht I’m the trueblue rawboned laborer. Ah, he’ll be crushed, and one day he’ll die in a hospital. or he’ll perish, ruined in body and soul, inside one of our modern prisons.
— Robert Walser, Jakob von Gunten
I grabbed hold of my Divergence like it was a hand outstretched to save me. I needed that word to tell me who I was when everything else was coming apart around me. But now I'm wondering if I need it anymore, if we ever really need these words, 'Dauntless,' 'Erudite,' 'Divergent,' "Allegiant,' or if we can just be friends or lovers or siblings, defined instead by the choices we make and the love and loyalty that binds us.
— Veronica Roth, Allegiant
Opposites attract in physics. In life, like attracts like. Kindness attracts kindness. Greed attracts greed. Love attracts love. If you don't like what you're attracting, change who you are.
— Connie R. Clay
I'm only up when you're not downDon't wanna fly if you're still on the ground
— Taylor Swift
I have to believe it’s right to be a warm voice, a companion if I can be, as soon as ever I find a friend.
— Betsy Cornwell, Mechanica
Like seasonless fowl we migrate…from East Coast to West Coastand back and forth again,for a job,for a friend,for a change,for a kick.
— Lenore Kandel, Collected Poems of Lenore Kandel
You are important to this earth. If you were meant to journey alone, you would not have friends...
— Virginia Alison
When it comes to friendship, you should always focus on quality instead of quantity.
SOMETIMES PEOPLES THAT YOU DONT CONSIDER AS FRIENDS AS YOUR FRIENDS ARE REALLY YOUR FRIEND.
— LEILANI
Goodbye” is the best ever gift that you can receive from worse friends. Never hesitate to wave it back. Be bold to say “no” to what always keeps you static!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
And she kept following the truck, like we were a very small parade, waving and waving, until Frank took the curve in the road and then she was gone.
— Morgan Matson, Since You've Been Gone
It’s January and I’m kicking snow off the ground. I just threw out the flower you made me promise to water, handle with care, because I was too careless, you said. Careless with things and people, around me and behindand I remember being still for just a second or two, thinking that it’s so much easier to leave and start anew, than take care of what’s already here.
— Charlotte Eriksson
I love a boy with sun-kissed hair,With ocean storms in his bright blue eyes,I love a boy who drinks my tears when I cry.
— Petra March, A Veil of Glass and Rain
Be drunk in love and high on life.
— Karen Quan, Write like no one is reading
Many relationships are give & take but the most successful ones are give & give.
— Mark Hewer
I'm surrounded by nothing but great people. I've been blessed with that, so really, I've got no choice but to be an all-around good person.
— Tim Duncan
In the rosy glow it diffused her companions seemed full of amiable qualities. She liked their elegance; their lightness, their lack of emphasis: even the self-assurance which at times was so like obtuseness now seemed the natural sign of social ascendency. They were lords of the only world she cared for, and they were ready to admit her to their ranks and let her lord it with them. Already she felt within her a stealing allegiance to their standards, an acceptance of their limitations, a disbelief in the things they did not believe in, a contemptuous pity for the people who were not able to live as they lived.
— Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth
My fingers gripped his sweaty T-shirt. I kept kissingEagan until he groaned softly in his sleep.“I love you,” I murmured against his lips.I moved away from him. I forced myself to stand, Igrabbed my guitar case and I left.On the bus, I kept licking my lips; I tasted him, the saltof his sweat, and a hint of cinnamon.
— Petra March, A Veil of Glass and Rain
This is going to seem bitter but I don't mean it that way, V., I'm just stating a fact here: you'll only ever call me if I call you first. Have you noticed that? If I call and leave a message you'll call me back, but you will never call me first.And I think that's kind of a horrible thing, V., when you're supposed to be someone's friend. I always come to you. You always say you're my friend but you'll never come to me and I think I have to stop listening to your words, V., and take stock instead of your actions. My friend C. thinks my expectations of friendship are too high but I don't think he's right. Take care, V. I'll miss you.
— Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven