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.

Oh, ice-boy. A moonlight stroll with you? Do you even have to ask?

We’ve had a beautiful friendship, Diana. We’ve never marred it by one quarrel or coolness or unkind word; and I hope it will always be so. But things can’t be quite the same after this....

This is how it needs to be in life. Solomon also wrote these words in Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 (NIV) “Two are better than one, because if either of them falls down, one can help the other...

What is love? two souls and one flesh; friendship? two bodies and one soul.

Da. This is going very well already.”Thomas barked out a laugh. “There are seven of us against the Red King and his thirteen most powerful nobles, and it’s going well?”Mouse sneezed.”Eight,” Thomas corrected himself. He...

As we change, we sometimes outgrow our friendships. And, since we cannot change this fact, it is best to simply accept it for what it is in order to appreciate the power that the friend...

In every relationship one must sacrifice to show thy love. Are you willing to make sacrifices for someone you love?

She spoke fast, and seemed to be a combination of stressed out and on the verge of cracking up, which was a mixture I wasn’t sure I’d ever seen before.

It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another...

No matter how far you take it with your friends, whether you’re fighting with them or you hate them for two months, you just really need them, because they’re the ones who teach you the...

I can tell you I’ve crunched the numbers time and time again; it is always more fun to have eight people with one beer than one man with eight beers.

Friends show their true colors in times of need; and not in times of happiness.

When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.

She closed her eyes, not really hearing the rest of what he murmured against her ear. All she knew was that it echoed everything that was in her heart. He was a surprise. Love was...

….stood there and watched and didn’t do a thing to help me.

Choose your friends with caution, plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith.If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to...

A simple life freely given in love can transcend the boundaries of place and time, stretching across oceans and extending beyond continents and decades.

A true friend doesn’t have guts; they beat you up and later plead with you to beat them back.

And there it is: Even though we’re standing in the same patch of sun-drenched pavement, we might as well be a hundred thousand miles apart.

I spoke of my desire of finding a friend, of my thirst for a more intimate sympathy with a fellow mind than had ever fallen to my lot, and expressed my conviction that a man...

It’s hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it….

True friends define each other.

However long a hug lasts, it doesn’t last long enough.

So that’s it. That’s the big secret. I tried to kill myself on New Year’s eve. Just like Sadie did last night. Only she really did it. I don’t know all the detatils, just the...

Do you ever feel like you’re not even friends with sme of your friends?

Friendship is love as much as any romance. And like any love, it’s difficult and treacherous and confusing. But in the moment when your knees touch, there’s nothing else you could ever want.

Zachary smiles, and I wonder if he’s felling different. Because standing out here waist deep in Gossimer Lake, next to my best friend, I’m feeling different-light and good and maybe even holy.

How it’s so easy for her to not feel anything at all, to be just completely gone, to not be around to see how fucked up she’s made me. She got to disappear completely and...

The older you get, the easier it is for you to distinguish between your friends and people you are not seeing for the first time.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

There’s the real world, with all its annoying facts and rules. In the real world, there are things that are true and things that aren’t. Mostly the real world s-s-s-suh-sucks. But everyone also lives in...

That was our friendship: equal parts irritation and cooperation.

Borunia: Why do you want to be my friend?Samarga: I want to know if we can be friends.

We all have that one friend that walks into your home like its their home

He was not in love with her—they were about as unlike as two people could possibly be—but he was very fond of her and really missed her, as exasperating as she sometimes was.

Why is it,” he said, one time, at the subway entrance, “I feel I’ve known you so many years?””Because I like you,” she said, “and I don’t want anything from you.

The most important thing that is happening in the world right now is the emerging of the new man.Since the monkeys, man has remained the same, but a great revolution is on it’s way. When...

I am part of everyone I ever dated on OK Cupid.

There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.

To know someone loves you just for being you is the greatest feeling in the world.

You know what the secret is? It’s so simple. We love one another. We’re nice to one another. Do you know how rare that is? – Carmen