She brought a chair into the room and placed it alongside the top of his bed. Then she held his hand as he drifted off to sleep. It was so small in her own hand,...

George looked at her for a long moment. Finally he replied, “And why do you find it so hard to think someone might like you and want to do things for you?

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

A man worth being with is one…That never lies to youIs kind to people that have hurt himA person that respects another’s lifeThat has manners and shows people respectThat goes out of his way to...

To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.

It is in the dark times that the light of friendship shines brightest. (The Walk – Chapter 19, Page 122

Dear Uncle Bernard – Your niece Frances – a four-eyed, French-plaited platypus awaiting the evaporation of h baby fat – thanks you very much for the romantic advice. But I’ve never been one to spend...

But friendship meant you at least planted the seed for them, love meant allowing them the ability to weed their own garden until it was something healthy and thriving, blooming and bright and smelling of...

Whatever you may say, genuine emotions are aroused by people. The first smile of a newborn, love confession, hang-loose chatting with friends, weekly meetings with dears, and a lot more other things initiated by two...

Only worse thing than being cold, and too tired to defend yourself, is to be cold and alone. And I wouldn’t ever wish that on nobody.

A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can’t make old friends.

People will not remember what you did for living,they will remember how you touched them with kindness and loving.

Weak and trembling from passion, Major Flint found that after a few tottering steps in the direction of Tilling he would be totally unable to get there unless fortified by some strong stimulant, and turned...

Why can’t we be friends now?” said the other, holding him affectionately. “It’s what I want. It’s what you want.” But the horses didn’t want it — they swerved apart: the earth didn’t want it,...

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

God is the reason I’m surviving, but he’s sure used you in my life wonderfully. I love you.

Harry – you’re a great wizard, you know.” “I’m not as good as you,” said Harry, very embarrassed, as she let go of him.”Me!” said Hermione. “Books! And cleverness! There are more important things –...

Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.

I love how you aren’t weird and awkward, despite the fact that you’ve been severely cut off from socialization to the point where you make the Amish look trendy.

Miłość ma wpisane w siebie cierpienie. Nieuniknione, chociażby przy rozstaniach. Przyjaźń – nie. Miłość może istnieć i trwać nieodwzajemniona. Przyjaźń – nigdy. Miłość jest pełna pychy, egoizmu, zachłanności i niewdzięczności. Nie uznaje zasług i nie...

A friend who will never fail is the one who will stand by you regardless of the situation, time or location.

Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly — something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates.

You don’t have to pretend with me, you know.’ He reaches out and tucks a strand of my hair behind my ear. His expression is so open and honest I feel it like a sucker...

Be a good listener. With rapt attention, let every communication or conversation you have with your mentor, friends or even strangers be well understood.

Why’d you call, boy? What did you want from me?””The company of a friend, I think.””Always a cheap treat.

Give me my heart; I am killing my existence without it.

Sarah’s friendship was one of my most treasured possessions.

In adversity you know your real friends.

Ah, they said. Qué bueno. And after and for a long time to come he’d have reason to evoke the recollection of those smiles and to reflect upon the good will which provoked them for...

I had a couple of friends in high school. And by a couple I mean my parents.

Love is like holding a baloney sandwich for a friend. That was over two years ago, and I’m still holding it. I wonder if he’s coming back any time soon. He must be starving by...

Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.

each year, she finds her friendships less volatile and easier, because she increasingly succeeds at looking past their flaws and disappointments and homing in on their pleasures and on what set them in motion to...

When we fully understand the brevity of life, its fleeting joys and unavoidable pains; when we accept the facts that all men and women are approaching an inevitable doom: the consciousness of it should make...

Together we shared a bond not even death would violate.

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to...

It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of a man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire… Woman...

You meet a new guy, analyze him, not good for marriage, not good for a relationship, not good for fucking, maybe excepting the very drunk mood, so, conclusion: this is the beginning of a beautiful...

A true friend is the one who knowseverything about you and still loves you. Eventually, people will forget the things you said or did, but the feelingsyou woke up in them they will never forget!

When people look at me, they automatically assume I’m dark and weird. Why can’t they see the truth? I’m just a girl, trying to find my place in the world.

Just as soon as I meet and learn to love a friend we must part and go our separate ways, never to meet on quite the same ground again. For, disguise the fact as we...

You know your problem, Quentin? You keep expecting people not to be themselves.

This is how it works. I love the people in my life, and I do for my friends whatever they need me to do for them, again and again, as many times as is necessary....

Loneliness is a hard thing to handle. I feel it, sometimes. When I do, I want it to end. Sometimes, when you’re near someone, when you touch them on some level that is deeper than...

It’s crazy to think that people can appreciate your presence in their lives not because of what you’ve accomplished or what they’ve gotten out of knowing you, but just because you’re present.

My sincere thanks to friends and family, especially my mother, father, brother, and Mandy, who continue to love and support me despite my obsessions.

Tshepo reckons that it is inevitable that one’s circle of friends will become smaller as one grows older. He reasons that when we begin we are similar, like two glasses of water sitting side by...

I wanted to say something to make her pain go away and make everything better. But, I realized that there was no answer. Bad things happen to good people. Rain always falls on the people...

Friend of everyone is friend of none.

a friend is someone who, when you make a mistake reminds you that you will, forever after,be a kinder person because of it…