It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
It's hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it....
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
the only way Bex would miss this would be if she were unconscious. And tied up. And in a concrete bunker. In Siberia.
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
He experienced the singular pleasure of watching people he loved fall in love with other people he loved.
Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.
Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
Close friends are truly life's treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone.
Who’s Bruce Lee? Who’s Bruce Lee? Kenji asks, horrified. Oh my God. We can’t even be friends anymore. Why? Was he a friend of yours? You know what, he says, just stop. Just—I can’t even talk to you right now.
Are you out of your goddamn mind? You think we can take on two hundred soldiers? I know I am an extremely attractive man, J, but I am not Bruce Lee. Who’s Bruce Lee? Who’s Bruce Lee? Kenji asks, horrified. Oh my God. We can’t even be friends anymore. Why? Was he a friend of yours? You know what, he says, just stop. Just—I can’t even talk to you right now.
Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).
No friendship is an accident.
When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.
It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
I wonder what Piglet is doing," thought Pooh. "I wish I were there to be doing it, too.
I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching--they are your family.
I knew they would kill me when they found out, but… He struggled for words, releasing a sharp breath. I think I realized that I would rather die because I betrayed them, than live because I betrayed you.