But I don’t think I ought to leave my friends like this, after all we have gone through together.

I’m never sad when a friend goes far away, because whichever city or country that friend goes to, they turn the place friendly. They turn a suspicious-looking name on the map into a place where...

I needed you desperately and you gave me the most incredible pleasure. And when I tried to hide from you…when I thought you didn’t want me…you showed me how wrong I was.” Grayson smiled as...

Ove çould not in all honesty remember how it all started. It wasn’t the sort of dispute where you did remember. It was more an argument where the little disagreements had ended up so entangled...

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

A new friend is always a miracle, but at thirty-three years old, such a bird of paradise rising in the sage-brush was an avatar. One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three...

When I fake smile the corners of my mouth twitch from tiredness, then nervousness, as I wonder if anybody can see my mouth quivering and figure out that I’m faking my friendliness.

I call him by his first name only. We’re that friendly. Plus, with a last name of McGee, why would I ever bother calling him by his full name of Dicksmear McGee?

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

In every friendship hearts grow and entwine themselves together, so that the two hearts seem to make only one heart with only a common thought. That is why separation is so painful; it is not...

Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?

If you mess with her head, I’ll personally hunt you down, but otherwise, good luck. If you can get her to talk, you’re a freaking miracle worker. Hell, if you can get her to actually...

In 1881, being on a visit to Boston, my wife and I found ourselves in the Parker House with the Ingersoll’s, and went over to Charleston to hear him lecture. His subject was ‘Some Mistakes...

You want a friend in this city? [Washington, DC.] Get a dog!

Here’s what I think. We all want someone to build a fort with. We want somebody to swap crayons with and play hide-and-seek with and live out imaginary stories with. We start out getting that...

The worst way to miss someone is to have them sitting right next to you and know you can never have them.

You know, when someone hurts my feelings, somehow it does not comfort me to know that it was deliberate… On the other hand, knowing that someone else thinks they are assholes helps a great deal.”...

As I’ve said, it wasn’t until a long time afterwards—long after I’d left the Cottages—that I realized just how significant out little encounter in the churchyard had been. I was upset at the time, yes....

Do you keep silent to keep a friendship or do you try to lend your support unconditionally, even if what they are doing goes against everything you believe in? Will it be principles over friendship,...

Sometimes, Nathaniel, friends can be like nice boots on a drowning man.

If someone listens, or stretches out a hand, or whispers a kind word of encouragement, or attempts to understand a lonely person, extraordinary things begin to happen.

I don’t care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching–they are your family.

Don’t ignore the love you DO have in your life by focusing on the love you DON’T.

Amazing love, amazing life.

Once Addie let someone in, she was impossible to forget. There was something about her that crawled inside a person and built a nice comfy home there, her goodness expanding until it filled every limb.

But, I believe,” I continue, “I know what true love is – or what it should be.” “What should it be?” Tristan asks, his voice soft now. “It should be a friendship and truly knowing...

The thing is, that when you’re young, you always think you’ll meet all sorts of wonderful people, that drifting apart and losing friends is natural. You don’t worry, at first, about the friends you leave...

A DAY LAYE””Every dawn of our lives a heart is forged andLinked with lore to one so similarBorn with blessed life dustStored beneath its soulTo bless and pass onto its childrenEven though the wind may...

If she lets us down, if she’s weird sometimes—just ignore it, and love her. Just love her.

I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future plusses.

You look like someone ran over your dog.” Blanche nudged him with her elbow.

We can be friends. We can be anything we want to be.

Lana was good for my ego. She was good for everything. Too bad I was straight. And then there was the whole ‘cousin’ thing

German is a much more precise language than English. Americans throw the word love around for everything: I love my wife! I love all my friends! I love rock music! I love the rain! I...

A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.

Dis seker hoekom mens ‘n beste vriendin moet hê, dink ek terwyl ek saam haar stap. Om jou hand vas te hou as jy uitmekaarval

Friendship knows no color, nationality, race and social level, friendship knows no age and gender, friendship knows no distance.

True friends are like diamonds – bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.

I want people to have permission to know me, not unlimited constant access to me.

I bought you something” Willows blurts out.”You bought…What?”Willow closes her eyes for a second. She’s a little surprised she’s going to give it to him after all, but there’s no going back now. She has...

Friends don’t build cages for each other.

You’ve got to think of the fine times you had with your mate, not the moment of his perishin’. Every tear you shed now only wets his windin’ sheet and disturbs his rest

Hold dear and true friends close to your heart, it matters not where you find them, only that you treat them with love and respect always.

How do we deal with all the people we’ve been? What happens when we have to confront them?

This is what I want so don’t be sad.

Oh, brothers! I don’t care for brothers. My elder brother won’t die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.

I know not what quintessence of all this mixture, which, seizing my whole will, carried it to plunge and lose itself in his, and that having seized his whole will, brought it back with equal...

I figured if anyone knew the answer to that one, it’d be you.

..he had trampled her poor, pining heart, and the wound was still raw, even these many years later.

Marriage is like a three-speed gearbox affection, friendship, love. It is not advisable to crash your gears and go right through to love straightaway. You need to ease your way through. The basis of love...