I’d like to be your friend—but only if you promise not to ever, ever count on me.

Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).

And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and...

I may not always be with you But when we’re far apartRemember you will be with meRight inside my heart

You can greet even the dullest acquaintance with pleasure, if you have forgotten their dreary story.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

The heart becomes warmer when the mild heat of love is coming from two persons. one is in eternal cold and desolation without feeling the friction of love.

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

Someday we’re going to look back on every shared smile and smile some more. It’s moments like this that make life worth enduring.

Your truest friends are the ones who will stand by you in your darkest moments–because they’re willing to brave the shadows with you–and in your greatest moments–because they’re not afraid to let you shine.

I have a feeling,’ he said, ‘I have a feeling that we were meant to be together. That we have fought the good fight, side by side, in the past or in the future, I...

It wasn’t easy to understand how the love between two other people could diminish you. If those two people were still accessible to you, if they called you all the time, if they asked you...

Girls will get together just to get together. Guys need an activity as an excuse. Otherwise it’s too homo for them to handle.

Steve, on the other hand, has plenty of friends, but he wouldn’t bleed for any of them, because he wouldn’t trust them to bleed for him. In that way he’s just as alone as me.

Some people simply seem to know how to live. They know when to seize the day, when to go with the flow, and when to row for dear life.

Despising each other as we did, we were constantly together, thereby degrading ourselves. If that is what the world calls friendship, the relations between Horiki and myself were undoubtedly those of friendship.

Books make the best ersatz friendships.

And he looked lonely enough that she said, ‘If you like, you could be my friend’.

Mom asked for a cupcake miracle? Well, here comes the freaking holy angel of icing, at your service. –HudsonAngel icing? That’s the craziest, corniest, most whack-ass stuff I’ve heard in my life

I sew his ears on from time to time, sure.

The faery lady looked at Hettie curiously from beneath her wig. “You know…” she said, very softly. “All I wanted was that you would be my friend. That isn’t very much to ask, is it?...

As Harry puts it, men and women can never be friends because ‘the sex part always gets in the way.

It’s not that I feel alone because I have no friends because I have lots of friends. I know that I have people who can hold me and reassure me and talk to ne and...

Many people walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.

You and me? We are never going to be just friends. The only time I’m not adoring you is when I am too busy hating you and wishing to God I never met you…

Friendship makes you feel as one with your friend.

You, of all people, deserve a happy ending. Despite everything that happened to you, you aren’t bitter. You aren’t cold. You’ve just retreated a little and been shy, and that’s okay. If I were a...

If you can find a cause that touches your soul it will make you a better person, it will show you the power of helping others and ultimately the biggest winner is us. Giving to...

Human being can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. it iz the worst of all tortures,the worst of all sufferings.

Ein Freund ist ein Mensch, der die Melodie deines Herzen kennt und sie dir vorspielt, wenn du sie vergessen hast.

Me too thy nobleness has taughtTo master my despair;The fountains of my hidden lifeAre through thy friendship fair.

Once when I had remarked on the affection quite often found between cat and dog, my friend replied, “Yes. But I bet no dog would ever confess it to the other dogs.

Once she was gone, I knelt next to Annabeth and felt her forehead. She was still burning up.”You’re cute when you’re worried,” she muttered. “Your eyebrows get all scrunched together.””You are not going to die...

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

My grin was feral, matching my savage best friend’s.

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.

Relationships are all about trust and equality. If one person shares, then the other person should share, too.

Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy ready-made things in the shops. But since there are no shops where you can buy friends, men no longer have any friends.

I guess he had listened to more beefs and more problems from more people than any of us. A guy that’ll really listen to you, listen and care about what you’re saying, is something rare.

Sometimes we have toxic relationships with certain people. We know who they are, We know how they operate, and we still haven’t cut them off. It’s difficult for us to let people go, even if...

Close friends are truly life’s treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence...

Friendship is an obstetric art; it draws out our richest and deepest resources; it unfolds the wings of our dreams and hidden indeterminate thoughts; it serves as a check on our judgements, tries out our...

I look back now and realize that the gift of a true friend is that she sees you not the way you see yourself or the way others see you. A true friend sees you...

There is no respect between the souls of two individuals if their minds can’t trust each other and there is no trust between them if their hearts can’t accept the truth of each other.

She was chaos and beauty intertwined. A tornado of roses from divine.

How is Eric?”Very tightly wound. Plus, a lot of stuff happened that he’ll tell you about.”Thanks for the warning. I’ll go to the house now. You’re my favorite breather.”Oh. Well … great.’She hung up.

Who has not remarked the readiness with which the closest of friends and honestest of men suspect and accuse each other of cheating when they fall out on money matters? Everybody does it. Everybody is...

He pulled the Carstairs family ring from his finger and held it out to Will. “Take it.”Will let his eyes drift down toward it, and then up to Jem’s face. A dozen awful things he...

I’ll thank Him for ya.

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.