Best friends are treasures. Hug them for their caring. Applaud their accomplishments. Laugh with them gratefully.

Esca tossed the slender papyrus roll onto the cot, and set his own hands over Marcus’s. “I have not served the Centurion because I was his slave,” he said, dropping unconsciously into the speech of...

Ivy! It’s a natural disaster! You have to be there!

And Isi always listened, never told Enna she had been foolish, never said hollow things like ‘You’ll be all right.’ . . . Isi saw Enna’s struggle and her sadness, and she understood.

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

Are we not all books waiting for someone to pick us up and read the pages that people missed?

Separate yourself from those who hinder your vision. Make a choice to walk away from the trap set to ensnare you. Realize when someone is pulling you backwards every time you take a step forward....

The only chains you should wear in life are the chains of commitment.

You have no enemies, you say? Alas, my friend, the boast is poor. He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small...

Sometimes, we just have to be happy with what people can offer us. Even if it’s not what we want, at least it’s something.

I know that some people disparage you for your lack of knowledge, and I know you may not understand me, Peter, but I wish you could, because you might be the only person who would....

He was able to love them again, but he loved them now in a wiser way, knowing their weakness.

Until recently I did not understand what happens when I’m by your side, but I realize this is love which makes me feel this way.

A woman will endure many wounds in her lifetime, but the betrayal of a friend is one of the most difficult to overcome.

Sometimes love tries to do too much.

I grew up in an era that was a golden age of the blockbuster, when something we might call a family film could have universal appeal. That’s something I want to see again. In terms...

A friend is an open sky with whom you can open wings of your mind to fly.

She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to...

Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.

I’ll be your friend so long as you’re not crap

Shifts within friendships happen in imperceptible increments. There is distance, then assurance. Misconjecture, caution, gradual convergence. So much depends on the respect accorded to vulnerability.

We two make banquets of the plainest fareIn every cup we find the thrill of pleasure… For us life always moves with lilting measureWe two, we two, we make our world, our pleasure

With Weasel and Arisa at his side, anything was possible. Anything.

Aye, say thou fool? Then fool, good Sir, am I.But when thou sayest fool remember wellThat fools do walk in foolish company.So if I am a fool, perhaps ’tis trueThat other fools around me may...

Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend, and together we shall walk in the way of...

Real Friends’ are someone who are right next to you when you got in emergency, not in only parties.

The more invested I am in my own ideas about reality, the more those experiences will feel like victimizations rather than the ups and downs of relating. Actually, I believe that the less I conceptualize...

Pick a mentor. Select and be closer to someone who is there to talk to you, inspire you, and be on you, monitoring your affairs and movements for the best reasons and ensuring that your...

All friendships are negotiations of power.

Because it’s not your fault I’m straight. And it’s not your fault you’re attracted to me. If I can’t give you everything you want I can at least give you a birthday to remember, right?”...

When I was in eighth grade, I used a self-timing camera to take nude pictures of myself in various stages of erection. I then exchanged my biology teacher’s slides with the images. The teacher, in...

You have been so sheltered, Deeta – more even than your sisters. You know nothing of life or of people, in truth I think both scare you. You have little experience of anything but Tom...

A friend in power is a friend lost.

I’d kill for any one of my friends. Thankfully for the overpopulated prison system, I don’t have any friends.

Tragedy, he precieved, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there were still privacy, love, and friendship, and when the members of a family stood by one another without needing to know the...

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

If you want to know what love really is, take a look around you. …It’s giving life that counts. Until you’re ready for it, all the rest is just a big fraud. All the crazy...

We must take our friends as they are.

The women ranged in age, but they were all old enough to know that in the currency of friendship, empathy is more valuable than accuracy.

His fingers are too long and when he talks he uses them to point out moments in his sentences. When he does, as the tips of his spindly fingers touch the words his mouth forms,...

Paul was terribly personal. The books I like are the ones that make you feel like you are with a person who is being quite vulnerable, telling you all sorts of stuff that is personal,...

I’ve been thinking. You’d better be my bridesmaid, since you gave me the idea that led to this whole farce. It’s a horrible job, I’m sure, so you deserve it. Plus, you’re my friend. Will...

The talks were like blood transfusions, moments of realness and hope that were pinpricks of light in the dark fabric of small-town life.

Was it good?Nemecsek fixed his blue eyes on Gereb and replied:Yes, and quietly added: Much better than to be standing on the bank, laughing at me. I’d rather stay in the water neck-deep until New...

..we’ll deal with it, because the good outweighs the bad.

I think if you keep the box closed long enough you do kill the cat, actually. And-God, I hope you won’t take this personally-but I love my best friend more than anyone in the world.

43. To his friend a man should bear him as friend,to him and a friend of his;but let him beware that he be not the friend of one who is friend to his foe.44. Hast...

When our sympathy leads to friendship and our friendship leads to love; only few will understand that it is the end of our past.

Now Doon seemed to care for his new friends more than he did for her. Every time she thought about him she felt a thud of pain, like a bruised place inside her.

After listening and getting to know more about you. Also, feeling a deep connection between us that goes beyond physical attraction. I’m beginning to feel for, so much more than the friendship that I waited...