To My Best Friend...We Might Be Weird but We're Real

“Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.”

— George R. R. Martin, amazon.com

“Sam and Patrick looked at me. And I looked at them. And I think they knew. Not anything specific really. They just knew. And I think that's all you can ever ask from a friend.”

— Stephen Chbosky, amazon.com

“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.”

— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com

“It's not love or anything, but I think I like you, too.”

— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com

“She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.”

— Toni Morrison, amazon.com

“I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails.”

— John Green, amazon.com

“It's bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variations of the same desire to be close.”

— Rachel Cohn, amazon.com

“When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.”

— George R.R. Martin, amazon.com

“Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each other still.”

— Whitney Otto, amazon.com

“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.”

— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com

“I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why.”

— John Steinbeck, amazon.com

“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, amazon.com

“I am always saying 'Glad to've met you' to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.”

— J.D Salinger, amazon.com

“Friendship- my definition- is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don't have trust, the friendship will crumble.”

— Stieg Larsson, amazon.com

“A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.”

— Markus Zusak, amazon.com

“The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.”

— Jay McInerney, amazon.com

“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.”

— Charles Lamb, amazon.com

“There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.”

— J.K Rowling, amazon.com

“Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.”

— William Shakespeare, amazon.com

“There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.”

— Irving Stone, amazon.com

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”

— Anaïs Nin, amazon.com

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, it has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”

— C. S. Lewis, amazon.com

“Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.”

— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com

“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, amazon.com

“Ah, if he could only die temporarily!”

— Mark Twain, amazon.com

“I have learned that if I want a real opinion on something, I have to ask my German friends, because they will tell it to me straight.”

— Kristin Addis, thoughtcatalog.com

“We went our separate ways, but within walking distance of one another.”

— Patti Smith, amazon.com

“I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth”

— Patti Smith, amazon.com

“We’re best friends because you make feel less alone in this psycho, flaky world. It’s amazing how often you can feel disconnected from people. It’s amazing how many people can betray you, or fail to understand the words that are coming out of your mouth. When I see you, it’s a burst of reassurance t…”

— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.com

“Nothing like being with people you’ve known almost your entire life. Having a shared history is something you just can’t create with the new ones. No matter how much you like that, it just isn’t the same.”

— Jane Green, amazon.com