“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not followDon’t walk behind me… I may not leadWalk beside me… just be my friend”
— Albert Camus“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
— C.S. Lewis“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
— Elbert Hubbard“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.”
— Oscar Wilde“What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.”
— C. S. Lewis“True friends are always together in spirit.”
— L.M. Montgomery“Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life--and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.”
— Dean Koontz“We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.”
— Sylvia Plath“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
— C.S. Lewis“I may not always be with you But when we're far apartRemember you will be with meRight inside my heart”
— Marc Wambolt“...Despite the mayhem that followed, Bruno found that he was still holding Shmuel's hand in his own and nothing in the world would have persuaded him to let go.”
— John Boyne“Friends can make you feel that the world is smaller and less sneaky than it really is, because you know people who have similar experiences.”
— Lemony Snicket“It's better to have a few faithful friends than numerous shallow friendships.”
— Jonathan Anthony Burkett“Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.”
— Georgia O'Keeffe“You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.”
— Nicholas Sparks“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field.I'll meet you there.When the soul lies down in that grassthe world is too full to talk about.”
— Rumi“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
— Jane Austen“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”
— Alfred Tennyson“Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive.”
— Rainbow Rowell“Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).”
— Jess C Scott“There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.”
— Shannon L. Alder“You had to know a person well to make them laugh like that.”
— Cassandra Clare“Two things you will never have to chase: True friends & true love.”
— Mandy Hale“Relationships are all about trust and equality. If one person shares, then the other person should share, too.”
— Sophie Kinsella“A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.”
— Shannon l. Alder“Your truest friends are the ones who will stand by you in your darkest moments--because they're willing to brave the shadows with you--and in your greatest moments--because they're not afraid to let you shine.”
— Nicole Yatsonsky“Remembering. Forgetting. I'm not sure which is worse.”
— Kelley Armstrong“Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay.”
— Jess C Scott“If he can't handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain, and instead seeing a person's soul.”
— Shannon Alder“People will walk in and walk out of your life, but the one whose footstep made a long lasting impression is the one you should never allow to walk out.”
— Michael Bassey Johnson“about her has to do with me.”
— Richelle Mead“Every life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter it.”
— Sarah Addison Allen“the world is not a pleasant place to be without someone to hold and be held by.”
— Nikki Giovanni“Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment. ”
— Haruki Murakami“My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism.”
— Jess C Scott“He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost.”
— Osamu Dazai“That's what I love about Aibileen, she can take the most complicated things in life and wrap them up so small and simple, they'll fit right in your pocket.”
— Kathryn Stockett“It's much easier to not know things sometimes. Things change and friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody.”
— Stephen Chbosky“But what are loyalty and caring really worth?To me? Everything.”
— Richelle Mead“Somewhere between love and hate lies confusion, misunderstanding and desperate hope.”
— Shannon L. Alder“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.”
— Sylvia Plath“The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.”
— Jay McInerney“The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.”
— Bette Midler“A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement”
— Jess C Scott“V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love.”
— Jess C Scott“You're such a pain in the ass. (Butch) Said the SIG to the Glock. (V)”
— J.R. Ward“A true friend is a gift from God. Since God doesn't exist, guess what? Neither do true friends.”
— Scott Dikkers“A friend is someone who knows where all your bodies are buried. Because they're the ones who helped you put them there.And sometimes, if you're really lucky, they help you dig them back up.”
— Jenny Lawson“Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.”
— Alan Bradley