Aria, this isn’t intimate. If I were being intimate with you, trust me, you’d know.”She rolled her eyes. Next time you say something like that, you should toss a red rose and then leave with...

To earn respect, you must earn your own self respect before you can expect others, to respect you.

I’m honestly ashamed to call you my friend sometimes.

I certainly didn’t concur with Edward on everything, but I was damned if I would hear him abused without saying a word. And I think this may be worth setting down, because there are other...

Every new friend is a new journey, through a brand new road, toward a brand new mysterious heart.

So furiously each other did assayle, As if their soules they would attonce haue rent Out of their brests, that streames of bloud did rayle Adowne, as if their springes of life were spent; That...

He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what they want and what they are; that they puzzle themselves as well as their friends; that their psychology...

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing...

But people need lift, too. People don’t get moving, they don’t soar, they don’t achieve great heights, without someone buoying them up.

We’ll be there, Harry,” said Ron”What?””At your Aunt and Uncle’s house,” said Ron, “And then we’ll go with you wherever you’re going.””No-” said Harry quickly; he hadn’t counted on this, he had meant them to...

27. Of all the means which are procured by wisdom to ensure happiness throughout the whole of life, by far the most important is the acquisition of firends.

I’ve met the most interesting people while flying or on a boat. These methods of travel seem to attract the kind of people I want to be with.

Fang swerved closer to me, big and supremely graceful, like a black panther with wings. Oh, God. I’m so stupid. Forget I just said that. “He needs a Band-Aid,” I said. A look passed between...

Love is ageless and colorless. It is a spiritual force that binds two hearts and two souls together as one.

The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we...

It’s for the best. Thanks for being my friends.Goodbye.

Talk to strangers politely. You don’t how many of them will become your close companions.

F*** you.” Then I’ll go back to that person and pin the flower on their lapel in a gesture of friendship. And while they are looking down on it in astonishment, I’ll bunch up my...

Nothing of real worth can ever be bought. Love, friendship, honour, valour, respect. All these things have to be earned.

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share...

Aren’t I enough for you?’ she asked.’No,’ he said. ‘You are enough for me, as far as a woman is concerned. You are all women to me. But I wanted a man friend, as eternal...

Michael Powell knows what I am going to say even before I say it — maybe even before I have thought it – and that is very rare. You are lucky if you meet someone...

How far would I go to be friends with someone? Halfway.

Then, whenever I feel the sun on my face, I will think of you, ” I told him. “You will always be with me, Bill. Because of all I have felt for you, and all...

When does someone love you enough to put you before himself? Had I done so with Michiko?

Because the first time they met…Y-da: “You know, Y-naga-san, the more makeup you put on, the more you look like a guy in drag. So I’m going to call you F-mio!”Y-naga: “I-I like this person!”The...

Love is friendship…just with less clothes, which makes it far more brilliant.

That is what you love a friend for: the ability to change your angle of vision, bring back your best self when you feel worst. And speak the truth — but without malice. Loving candour...

Great souls by instinct to each other turn, demand alliance, and in friendship burn.

You feel, I suppose, that, in losing Isabella, you lose half yourself: you feel a void in your heart which nothing else can occupy. Society is becoming irksome; and as for the amusements in which...

I knew in that moment, we were never meant to surrender our childlike innocence, to trade a world in which we fit like a glove for one that hung on us like ill-fitting hand-me-downs. However,...

We’re about to hit that age when we’ll be too exhausted to maintain friendships, and the days of hanging out will be long behind us.

She turns her head, Bailey catches her eye, and she smiles at him. Not in the way that one smiles at a random member of the audience when one is in the middle of performing...

Cousin Jimmy thinks I did perfectly right. Cousin Jimmy would think I had done perfectly right if I had murdered Andrew and buried him in the Land of Uprightness. It’s very nice to have one...

You’re my friend, Danny. You understand? There’s no debt between friends.”Maybe it’s just that the debt gets so high you stop counting it.

Silence make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts.

Karrin.”She looked up at me. She looked very young somehow.”Remember what I said yesterday,” I said. “You’re hurt. But you’ll get through it. You’ll be okay.”She closed her eyes tightly. “I’m scared. So scared I’m...

You can’t say ‘Oh my stars.’ ‘Oh my stars’ is not a thing, and it makes no sense. The whole point of that saying is that you’re calling out to someone for help, and stars...

Fine! He is being passive aggressive with me, and it’s gonna backfire; I’m gonna be active friendly.

Ask very little but ask of everyone.

I know you’re just trying to be kind. But the world isn’t always kind. So sometimes you have to know what you’re up against, and match it.’ He held up a hand to stop the...

We all get lots of people. And maybe we don’t always get to have them the exact way we want them, but if we can figure out a way to compromise, you know, then we...

We are all the same and we are all different. What great friends we will be.

A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.

Because the difference between a friend and a real friend is that you and the real friend come from the same territory, of the same place deep inside you, and that means you see the...

Leeda knew friends never turned out to be what you expected. They came and went in waves, pulling away and coming back, leaving you feeling safe one minute and lost the next.

I don’t care how happily married you are or how deeply enmeshed you are with your children and family and career — every woman needs a couple of chicks who’ll break out the sangria just...

If we had more reliable systems of law and governance perhaps our friendship would be shallower.

People will walk in and walk out of your life, but the one whose footstep made a long lasting impression is the one you should never allow to walk out.

It struck her how sad it was that all of them had grown up on top of one another like small animals in a too-small cage, and now would simply scatter. And that would be...