“A true friend is one you can go extended periods without seeing or talking to, yet the moment that you are back in touch, it's like no time has passed at all.”— Ellie Wade, amazon.comTagged: Friends, Time Apart, Best Friends
“Maybe a friend is someone who wants your updates. Even if they're boring. Or sad. Or annoyingly cutesy.”— E. Lockhart, amazon.comTagged: Friends, Updates, Communication, Friendship
“That was the thing about best friends. Like sisters and mothers, they could piss you off and make you cry and break your heart, but in the end, when the chips were down, they were there, making you laugh even in your darkest hours.”— Kristin Hannah, amazon.comTagged: Friends, Sisters, mothers
“A true best friend loves you even when it seems like you've gone off the deep end.”— Liz Fenton, amazon.comTagged: Friends, Best Friends, Love, Friendship
“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, amazon.comTagged: Friends, Sneaky, scary
“A friend is someone who inspires, who challenges, who sends you in search of some truer sense of yourself.”— Steve Lopez, amazon.comTagged: Friends, Challenges, inspiration
“A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.”— Jaron Lanier, amazon.comTagged: Friends, Friendship, Weird
“The friends you make in college are friends you'll have for life, even if you don't talk for years at a time.”— Jessica Park, amazon.comTagged: Friends, College, university, School
“Real friends are the ones you can count on no matter what. The ones who go into the forest to find you and bring you home. And real friends never have to tell you that they’re your friends.”— Morgan Matson, amazon.comTagged: Friends, Real Friends, Effort
“It's only best friends who can be comfortable with silence, wouldn't you say?”— Benjamin Wood, amazon.comTagged: Friends, Best Friends, Silence, Comfort
“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.”— Charles Lamb, amazon.comTagged: Friends, Friendship, Nonsense, Respect
“In your entire life, you can probably count your true friends on one hand. Maybe even on one finger. Those are the friends you need to cherish, and I wouldn't trade one of them for a hundred of the other kind. I'd rather be completely alone than with a bunch of people who aren't real. People who are…”— Sarah Ockler, amazon.comTagged: Friends, Friendship, Alone
“True friends are those who came into your life, saw the most negative part of you, but are not ready to leave you, no matter how contagious you are to them.”— Michael Bassey Johnson, amazon.comTagged: Friends, Friendship, Negative
“I think that real friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost always seems like a very hard desert, and the flowers that grow there seem to grow against such high odds.”— Stephen King, amazon.comTagged: Friends, Friendship, Gratitude
“Wherever it is you may be, it is your friends who make your world.”— Chris Bradford, amazon.comTagged: Friends, Life, Friendship
“Some people you meet and they're your friend for a day. Some you meet and you never really know at all. And then there are those who get caught inside your soul and stay there forever.”— Melodie Ramone, amazon.comTagged: Friends, Friends Forever, Temporary
“That's what friends should do. Cherish the good and pretend not to notice the harmless rest.”— Beth Hoffman, amazon.comTagged: Friends, Harmless, Ignore
“It's better to have a few faithful friends than numerous shallow friendships.”— Jonathan Anthony Burkett, amazon.comTagged: Friends, Frienships, Faithful, shallow, Friendship
“Friends are supposed to act like harbor boats—let you know if you’re off course.”— Rebecca Wells, amazon.comTagged: Friends, Off Course, Honesty
“I'm so thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much.”— L. M. Montgomery, amazon.comTagged: Friends, thankful, beauty
“What is a friend if not someone you feel close to, someone you like being with, someone you can confide in and share pleasure with.”— Johanna Lindsey, amazon.comTagged: Friends, Trust, Pleasure
“Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.”— Henry David Thoreau, amazon.comTagged: Friends, hopes, Dreams
“I look back now and realize that the gift of a true friend is that she sees you not the way you see yourself or the way others see you. A true friend sees you for who you are and who you can become.”— Robin Jones Gunn, amazon.comTagged: Friends, possibilities, Real Friends
“Best friends, no matter what they do or how much they hurt you, it only hurts as much as it does because they are your best friend. And none of us are perfect. Mistakes were made for best friends to forgive; it’s what makes being a best friend official.”— J.A. Redmerski, amazon.comTagged: Friends, Best Friends, mistake, forgive
“The only true test of friendship is the time your friend spends on you.”— John Marsden, amazon.comTagged: Friends, Friendship, Time, Effort
“Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recognition.”— John O'Donohue, amazon.comTagged: Friends, Friendship, Recognition, Love
“Because the difference between a friend and a real friend is that you and the real friend come from the same territory, of the same place deep inside you, and that means you see the world in the same kind of way. You know each other even before you do.”— Laura Pritchett, amazon.comTagged: Friends, Real Friends, Friendship
“Friends are honest with each other. Even if the truth hurts.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.comTagged: Friends, Truth, honest
“When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, amazon.comTagged: Friends, Friendship, Solid