A good friend doesn’t let you do stupid things …. alone.

The art of conversation lies in listening

There is a primal reassurance in being touched, in knowing that someone else, someone close to you, wants to be touching you. There is a bone-deep security that goes with the brush of a human...

What type of question is that?”A bad one, I decided, and resolved to keep my mouth shut the rest of the day and just enjoy the bitter sweetness of it all.

It is a great joy to love and be loved.

Por mais que o passado seja a representação de quem fomos, o passado é passado. E deixa de ser passado assim que começa a interferir com o Presente e a condicionar o Futuro.

I wish I could say we all lived happily ever after. I can’t. But I can say we lived. Our love for Nate lives, and he’s left us this piece of himself in his art;...

Best friends are literal and figurative life savers that we should thank as often as possible for rescuing us from ourselves.

She headed for a wide flat rock on the creek’s bank, her posture still demanding ‘no trespassing’ but no longer ‘trespassers will be shot.

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).

I always liked ‘nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.’ I think that’s the perfect Eliot quote for the moment we head off to a garden party.

If you have but one friend, make sure you choose her well.

So, we’re not enemies anymore?” She said. “I never said I wanted to be, believe me. When I saw you sitting in your own, eating lunch, all I wanted to do was fool around and...

Don’t be afraid to grow up, Peter. It’s only a trap if you forget how to fly.

I dreamt we walked together along the shore. We made satisfying small talk and laughed. This morning I found sand in my shoe and a seashell in my pocket. Was I only dreaming?

It seems like as we stand there I’m watching my whole life with Hana, our entire friendship, fall away: sleepover parties with forbidden midnight bowls of popcorn; all the times we rehearsed for Evaluation Day,...

Kate picked up her coffee cup, frowning when she saw it was empty. “Did you drink my coffee?””Yes. I was feeling aggressive.

If you have good friends, no matter how much life is sucking , they can make you laugh.

A few of us always compared anything good to: ‘ Isn’t it just like camp?’ When we first got married, we asked each other, ‘Was your honeymoon good?’ ‘Yeah. It was just like camp.

I knew then that death could stopa lot of things, but it could never cut the bond of friendship.

I learnt my best lessons from some of the worst people & I look back now and think thank fuck I let you go, I deserved to grow.

How sick are you? Holy crap. Are you dying or something? Is that why you’re going ona retreat and eating only lettuce?

And in this curious state I had the realization, at the moment of seeing that stranger there, that I was a person like everybody else. That I was known by my actions and words, that...

It is absolutely okay with me if you need to keep some secrets. I’ve been thinking about this and I decided that a best friend is someone who, when they don’t understand, they still understand.

No,” I say. “I didn’t know that,” and as I say it I feel flooded with bitterness at all the things Ingrid kept secret from me.

Alan,” cried I, “what makes ye so good to me? What makes ye care for such a thankless fellow?”Deed, and I don’t, know” said Alan. “For just precisely what I thought I liked about ye,...

We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure frank criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act...

We can’t really explain what the goal of mentoring is, until we understand what the church is for.

Nobody steals books but your friends.

My friends love me terribly, and their grief will be a screaming storm if I die.

True friendship does not require constant communication because your consistent trust in a true friend is always constant.

May my thoughts of kindness stretch over like a warm blanket to envelop your being and caress your soul.

God, how we get our fingers in each other’s clay. That’s friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other.

Every loving word and action create a far reaching ripple effect – like the waves of the ocean.

Alain Badiou was once seated amongst the public in a room where I was delivering a talk, when his cellphone (which, to add insult to injury, was mine — I had lent it to him)...

You see that God deems it right to take from me any claim to merit for what you call my devotion to you. I have promised to remain forever with you, and now I could...

I recall Decimus instructing me while at work that wrong friends will make my heart yearn for sin more than it usually does. Compromises will be easier and wisdom will be replaced with folly. I...

Sahabat yang baik adalah bila dia hanya datang dan duduk di sebelah kita, tanpa kata apa-apa. Dan kemudian, kita tinggalkannya dengan perasaan seolah-olah telah bercakap lama dengannya.

Friendships sail like any other ship… left unattended, it will drift away” – Sensei Stokes

Nate stared, slack-jawed as the cab merged with the traffic and became impossible to spot. That was it.They chose each other.Just then, the dark sky lit up with fireworks. A cab sailing the street honked...

Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books

Money spent, will never out value spent time.

Idiot.People say that those who call others idiots are the real idiots. I don’t care if I’m an idiot, so I’ll call you one. Idiot! You should have told me this earlier! Okay, he’s dead!...

The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association. I was alone.

Time doesn’t take away from friendship, nor does separation.

If you would feel comfortable going around to someone’s house at the end of a long day saying, “I’m just going to take my bra off,” you know you are intimate friends.

It’s hot. I’m sweatin’. I don’t want to go campin’,” his voiced pitched high to mock me.

My fear of being real, of being seen, paralyzes me into silence. I crave the touch and the connection, but I’m not always brave enough to open my hand and reach out. This is the...

Pride was the belt you used to hold your pants up when you had no pants.