Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies.

Knowing this secret, being the only one chosen to know, makes me feel important in a way. But it’s a negative importance, it’s the importance of a blank sheet of paper. I can know because...

What is society but an individual? […] The ocean is not society; it is individuals. This was how I managed to gain a modicum of freedom from my terror at the illusion of the ocean...

That’s how it started: a series of small hurts and excuses between two people that built up slowly, widening over time to form a vast and yawning divide.

When I recall memories, it all seems like a film, not a reality.

True friends esteem you of greater worth than you feel deserving. False friends demand you prove that worth.

When words can’t make it better, hold my hand and don’t let go.

I have never bought into the idea that blood is thicker than water. Love and respect are meant to be earned from our children, our spouses, our families, and our friends.

No. This would be better as a team.” She dragged her top drawer open, rooted out her aspirin. “Ishould have fired her weeks ago. You were right about that. I was wrong.””I need to write...

We were all made with the potential to be the people we are supposed to be. We all have souls and we all have minds and we all have wills. Many people look at the...

In deze periode was Grünewald werkelijk alleenheerser, en alle levenden en doden verloren met de dag veld in het hart van Louise.

Can miles truly separate you from friends… If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?

I seemed to have lost my husband and best friend simultaneously – and to each other. Something warned me that I would get back either both or none.- #Draupadi

I’ve discovered a way to stay friends forever – There’s really nothing to it. I simply tell you what to doAnd you do it!

I pressed my dark issues to the back of my mind and smiled a slight untruthful happiness . . .

As you grow older, you realize it becomes less important to have more friends and more important to have real ones.People nowadays don’t know the true meaning of friendship and loyalty.People always suddenly miss you...

You’re my closest friend and you’re thousands of miles away.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work but the solidest things we know.

But in Friendship, being free of all that, we think we have chosen our peers. In reality, a few years’ difference in the dates of our births, a few more miles between certain houses, the...

Nico didn’t respond. He’d never had anyone talk to him this openly before, except maybe for Hazel. He felt like he was watching a flock of birds settle on a field. One loud sound might...

A circle of friends, doesn’t always keep perfect relationships.

He’s not wanting to fight,” she assured the captain.”He is driven by curiosity?” Deudermont asked.”By loyalty,” Catti-brie answered. “And nothing more. Drizzt is bound by friendship to ye and to the crew, and if a...

I’m everyone everywhere with you without you unbound set free in limbo lost at sea.

I don’t know how to be anything but pretend,” I replied, and it ached in me how true that really was. “But if I could be real, I’d be real for you.

And when Mary nodded, Pauline said, “You’d better hurry then, you know how how is,” and laughed to show she would not be married to bald John Keane for all the tea in China. In...

As I get older, I am becoming more selective of who I consider a friend. I find that I would rather have 4 quarters than 100 pennies.

To brave the undertow, we had learned to hold hands.

Me? I was lost for long time. I didn’t make any friends for few years. You can say I made friends with two trees, two big trees in the middle of the school […]. I...

Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.

My books are friends that never fail me.”(Letter to his mother, Margaret A. Carlyle; 17 March 1817)

You might think that a boy is just your friend, but then if you find out that maybe he likes you (in a boyfriend way), everything changes instantly. (47)

She had been trying hourly to ensure that this new friendship remained such, to be certain that it would not slip out of the careful grasp of her fingers and into the darker champers of...

Remember what your mama told you about honey and vinegar: Be nice, and you’ll catch more flies, if nothing else.

The very fact that a Frenchman was prepared, after tow minutes of conversation, to be so friendly towards anyone, especially one who had come from England, made me restless.

I have been a friend to Shadowhunters. I know many of your families, going back for hundreds of years.””There is nothing we can do to correct the questionable judgments of our ancestors,” Lucian said.Magnus hated...

For a moment amongst the crowd, I saw you. I’ve since found out it’s common for people separated from someone they love to keep seeing that loved one amongst strangers; something to do with recognition...

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.