Thunderstorms are as much our friends as the sunshine.

You shouldn’t have to pretend to be as excited as I am just to make me happy. If it comes to that, you shouldn’t have to pretend to be anything around me. Friends should be...

Colpo di fulmine. The thunderbolt, as Italians call it. When love strikes someone like lightning, so powerful and intense it can’t be denied. It’s beautiful and messy,cracking a chest open and spilling their soul out...

You’re getting into some kind of shape, cop.”Aw, come on, now.” Butch grinned. “Don’t let that shower we took go to your head.”Rhage fired a towel at the male. “Just pointing out your beer gut’s...

You turn friends away before you discover they were good after all; you give up on your dreams before you realize you were very close to your success all that while. Be patient; don’t rush...

Talk to strangers politely… Every friend you have now was once a stranger, although not every stranger becomes a friend.

I would rather have 1 amazing best friend than 100 decent regular friends. It’s not about quantity, it’s about quality.

There are TWO reasons why you’ll be blessed; For giving and for forgiving

All we really want is for no one to have a boring life, to be impressive, so we can be impressed. ~ on the friends we choose.

Be careful what you say. You can always say you’re sorry, but you can never take back what you said.

Laughter feels like our flotation device — it won’t pull us out of the storm, but it might carry us through, if we can just hang on.

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 you make friends with yourself, you’ll never be alone.

If you build the faith to trust a friend as God, then your heart can never be broken.

I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying ‘flee at once – all is discovered.’ They all left town immediately.

You’re mine, Echo, and I’ll treasure you forever.

A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings...

They weren’t making much sense; she decided they were having an argument as old and comfortable as an armchair, the kind of argument that no one ever really wins or loses, but which can go...

You sometimes heard about the marginally talented wives of powerful men publishing children’s books or designing handbags or, most commonly, becoming photographers. There might even be a show of the wife’s work in a well-known...

My Zora senses are tingling,” I said.Nathan looked at me blankly.”Right, you don’t know anything about Spiderman,” I remembered.”Spider who?” he asked.

I know,” I said and felt like a monster.

We were each other’s rock. But did it make us each other’s destiny?

Your noble friend will not accept pretension but will gently and very firmly confront you with your own blindness. Such friendship is creative and critical; it is willing to negotiate awkward and uneven territories of...

Nineteen twentieths of [mankind is] opaque and unenlightened. Intimacy with most people will make you acquainted with vices and errors and follies enough to make you despise them.

Sam,” she said.”I’m trying!””Sam,” she repeated.”No,” he spat, hearing her tone. “No!”He began screaming for help then. Celaena pressed her face to one of the holes in the grate. Help wasn’t going to come-not fast...

Severing our young and fragile friendship was a sad ordeal, but sadder still was the fact that this friend found it so difficult to respond to my immediate need, unlike a dreamed boy who always...