Some pain shouldn’t be wished away so easily. It had to be dealt with, even embraced. Without the agony of the last few months, Piper never would have found her best friends, Hazel and Annabeth....

But Mrs. Brockington, old, alone, almost crippled by rheumatism, had faith and courage. She had more. She had a warm serenity, and when Ellen was with her, she almost had it too. For goodness is...

I bundled in my own blanket and reflected on the strange and somewhat unexpected friendship that was slowly developing between Davin and myself. It was clear to me that he needed a friend, but for...

Gross.

Being in love with your best friend is problematic.

You have to be a friend to have them.

When you are joyful, when you say yes to life and have fun and project positivity all around you, you become a sun in the center of every constellation, and people want to be near...

I got through it, and I wore it like a badge of honor—I Can Be Alone and it’s Okay.

We love ourselves notwithstanding our faults, and we ought to love our friends in like manner.

When you are offered a miracle take it. Otherwise, show God your tail so he can move on and give it to someone who doesn’t want to be in hell any more.

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...

All men have their frailties; and whoever looks for a friend without imperfections, will never find what he seeks.

I Can Be Alone and it’s Okay.

When you are without friends, the next best thing is an enemy who knows you well.

I know he’s a realist, he’s okay with being alone, and he helps people when he thinks no one is watching.

When i rest my cheeks on our palm, i feel like the entire world is upside down and my worries are nothing before you.

I suppose that means you don’t want any band-aids, either,” I said, a touch more bitterly than I’d meant to.

An enemy of your enemy might be your friend. But a friend of your friend isn’t automatically your friend.

When the moment shifts, and you realize you don’t actually want to be alone, that underneath the bravado is an ache that won’t quite fade away, you’re not only aware of how lonely you are,...

The pillow whistled across the room and smacked him in the face. Nicolas smiled, satisfied. If he was going to die, this was the man he wanted to die beside.

I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

Well, if you can accept that I’m a great big geeky fangirl, then I guess I can accept that you’re a skeptic and a realist.

The subject of kissing seemed to be an awkward one. Better keep quiet about it in future. What was obviously important, was to kiss; not talk about it.

I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.

It was nice. Even in high school, I’d mostly had makeshift friends forged by the shared status of outcast. It was rare for me to discuss things so easily to someone outside of my family,...

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

I like Dancing of Indian girls more than my parents’ prayers . Because they dance with love and passion . But my parents just say their prayers because they got used to it .

I had always thought that I was fine with being alone. Halfway through high school, I moved from Brazil to America, and it took me forever to make friends. I had culture shock of virtually...