Friendship Quotes

Nothing disrupts dehumanization more quickly than inviting someone over, looking into their eyes, hearing their voice, and listening.

~ Sarah Schulman

-I'm your girlfriend?- No. Alexei shakes his head, then pulls me to him again, holds me closer. There's not a word in either of our language for what you are to me.

~ Ally Carter

Magdalen's eyes were wide and her mouth hung open. She was so sweet and beautiful. She would make a wonderful margrave's wife. Avelina had already made up her mind that the margrave had not killed his brother. She simply could not believe anyone who was so particular about who he was going to marry, and who seemed so concerned about orphans, could have done such a despicable thing. At least, she hoped not.

~ Melanie Dickerson

Takizawa: something that was left in my care. give it back to Amon for me. see you, Goat's King.Kaneki: I'm not taking It.Takizawa: Its just a small chain and yet It feels so heavy to me... fine whatever.Kaneki: Takizawa, Its because you'r completely empty inside that if we don't tie you down with a chain you'll go off and die.

~ Sui Ishida

As to our going on together as we were going, in a sort of friendly way, the people round us would have made it unable to continue. Their views of the relations of man and woman are limited, as is proved by their expelling me from the school. Their philosophy only recognizes relations based on animal desire. The wide field of strong attachment where desire plays, at least, only a secondary part, is ignored by them—the part of—who is it?—Venus Urania.

~ Thomas Hardy

Be easy with yourself. Be gentle. Remember to be your own friend. We all make mistakes. We all say silly things now and then. It's also OK to change your mind. Don't replay the moments. Don't torture yourself with critique and negative self-talk. The expectation is not perfection, it's to keep moving forward. Keep trying. Keep learning and growing. You'll get a lot further with a positive attitude. Love will open and grow you. Love will encourage you. No one can love you more than you can love yourself. Be your own ally. Learn to help not hinder yourself.

~ Akiroq Brost

There is no friendship, without forgiveness.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I write, like anybody else, about how it is to be human. -- Mark Merlis

~ Arlie Corday

Fake friends are better than true friends because it doesn't hurt when they leave.

~ Jyothsna Ravi

As you play this record, I hope you'll think of the good, not the bad. Of what was, not what wasn't meant to be. Of the time we spent together, not the time we've spent apart. Most of all I hop you'll think of me...

~ Jamie Ford

While watching the revelry in the Barn, I'd had an epiphany. Parties weren't just about who was who and being seen. It was about letting go. About celebrating that we all made it through one more boring week. Everyone came together in one place, and for a while, it was as if nothing mattered except the music and the energy and being away from all of the adults in our lives. These parties were about freedom. And friendship. They were about friendship too.

~ Chelsea Sedoti

... As for me, I taught the lad the real character of a rifle; and well has he paid me for it. I have fought at his side in many a bloody scrimmage; and so long as I could hear the crack of his piece in one ear, and that of the Sagamore in the other, I knew no enemy was on my back. Winters and summers, nights and days, have we roved the wilderness in company, eating of the same dish, one sleeping while the other watched; and afore it shall be said that Uncas was taken to the torment, and I at hand - There is but a single ruler of us all, whatever maybe the color of the skin, and him I call to witness - that before the Mohican boy shall perish for the want of a friend, good faith shall depart the 'arth and 'Kill-deer' become as harmless as the tooting we'pon of the singer!

~ James Fenimore Cooper

You say 'love' too easily, Kepler.No, not rally - please don't call me that. The idea that love has to be a blazing romantic thing of monogamous stability is innately ludicrous. You loved your parents, perhaps, because they were the warmth you could flee to. You loved your first childhood crush with a passion that made your lips tingle, your flesh grow light in their presence. You loved your wife with the steadiness of an ocean against the shore; your lover with the blaze of a shooting star, your best friend with the confidence of a mountain. Love is a many-splendorous thing, as the old song says....

~ Claire North

Money and power attract friends. But it’s not you they’re friends with — just your money and power. Only affection brings genuine friends.

~ Auliq Ice

So strange that David Drucker of all people was the only one who said the exact right thing: Your dad shouldn't have died. That's really unfair.

~ Julie Buxbaum

Friendship is based on trust and treating others kindly.

~ Auliq Ice

You may control people physically by force, but you won’t change their hearts and minds—that requires trust and friendship.

~ Auliq Ice

It is not enough simply to wish that love and compassion grow within us. We need a sustained effort to cultivate such positive qualities.

~ Auliq Ice

Caring for others is the best way to fulfil our own interests.

~ Auliq Ice

The best friends are made in childhood when we have no ulterior motives.

~ Tapan Ghosh

Because that is how one survives eternity,” I say, “or even a few years. Friends. Family. Moving with them. Moving forward.

~ N.k. Jemisin

Pilar, if anyone, should have understood how awful it was to be surrounded by people who had their own version of the truth. People who wouldn’t listen to you long enough to know you at a

~ Charlotte Leonetti

We would never go shopping together or eat an entire cake while we complained about men. He'd never invite me over to his house for dinner or a barbecue. We'd never be lovers. But there was a very good chance that one of us would be the last person the other saw before we died. It wasn't friendship the way most people understood it, but it was friendship. There were several people I'd trust with my life, but there is no one else I'd trust with my death. Jean-Claude and even Richard would try to hold me alive out of love or something that passed for it. Even my family and other friends would fight to keep me alive. If I wanted death, Edward would give it to me. Because we both understand that it isn't death that we fear. It's living.

~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Real friends are like autotroph, whether you pay your intentions or not but they keep calm your noons.

~ Samar Sudha

Was this really friendship? I have my doubts.

~ Wataru Watari

Maybe talking like they do -- like every trivial conversation is the height of their youth -- is what being friends is. There's no way I would do that, I'd burst into laughter halfway.

~ Wataru Watari

It is good to bounce things off a trusted friend.

~ Sofi Benitez

I'll be fine. She kissed his cheek. Styles nearly killed the two men I love most. Trust me, he's going to regret that. After all, it is foolish to get on the bad side of either Spellsmith or Carver...and I just happen to be both.

~ H.l. Burke

We laughed over our difference then spent years bonding over things that made us the same.

~ Nikesh Shukla

Cyber trolls' deceptive manipulative, political power play, duplicity and devious hypocrisy cannot equate to true friendship.~ Angelica Hopes, K.H. Trilogy

~ Angelica Hopes

Genuine friends will NOT be intimidated by your success. They will be happy for you and celebrate you! Don’t fool yourself, jealousy and friendship do NOT mix.

~ Stephanie Lahart

As I looked out at the water, I realized there was nowhere to go, nowhere left to run. And I just had to stay here facing this terrible truth. I felt, as more tears fell, just how tired I was, a tiredness that had nothing to do with the hour. I was tired of running from this, tired of pretending that things were okay when they had never, ever been less okay.

~ Morgan Matson

A person who loves you through your idiosyncrasies, despite the tiny inclusions, is a diamond worth keeping.

~ Terry A O'neal

My path gets more beautiful when you walk it with me.

~ Toni Sorenson

A good friend would offer you an umbrella in the rain. A best friend would steal yours and say, 'run, b*tch, run!

~ Unknown Author

You can love more than one person, she said. That's arguable. Why is it any different from having more than one friend? You're friends with me and you also have other friends, does that mean you don't really value me? I don't have other friends, I said.

~ Sally Rooney

You get out of hell one step at a time. -- Abbie Sullivan, Cinderella Shoots the Moon.

~ Arlie Corday

Trust me, Bea, you are on your way. It’s about acknowledging where you are and knowing that you are okay. The universe has your back and so do I.

~ Sadeqa Johnson

You create more space in your life when you turn your excess baggage to garbage.

~ Chinonye J. Chidolue

After being around such crazy people, how could I not change too?

~ Bisco Hatori