“Some friends don't understand this. They don't understand how desperate I am to have someone say, I love you and I support you just the way you are because you're wonderful just the way you are. They don't understand that I can't remember anyone ever saying that to me. I am so demanding and difficul…”— Elizabeth Wurtzel, amazon.com
“I never met a man half so true as a dog. Treat a dog right, and he'll treat you right. He'll keep you company, be your friend, and never ask you no questions.”— Mary Ann Shaffer, amazon.com
“Tonight we shall take our bad feelings and share them, and face them. We shall mourn. We shall drain the bitter dregs of mortality. Pain shared, my brother, is pain not doubled, but halved. No man is an island.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“One of the best ways to make yourself happy is to make other people happy. One of the best ways to make other people happy is to be happy yourself.”— Gretchen Rubin, amazon.com
“But you are the average of the five people you associate with most, so do not underestimate the effects of your pessimistic, unambitious, or disorganized friends. If someone isn't making you stronger, they're making you weaker.”— Timothy Ferriss, amazon.com
“Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together. Not a place, but a moment, and then another, building on each other like bricks to create a solid shelter that you take with you for your entire life, wherever you may go.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com
“The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right.”— Mark Twain, cmgww.com
“Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.”— Epicurus, amazon.com
“A good friend is someone who'd hide you if you were on the run for murder. How many of them do you know?”— Lemmy Kilmister, iheartintelligence.com
“Your best friend isn't the person you call when you are in jail; mostly likely, she is sitting in the cell beside you.”— Irene S. Levine, amazon.com
“What do you say to your best friend when you stand at the gates of hell? Nothing. If it’s your best friend, she already knows”— Eliza Crewe, amazon.com
“That's the problem with best friends. Sometimes they know you better than you know yourself.”— Cecily von Ziegesar, google.com
“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.com
“Ten minutes with a genuine friend is better than years spent with anyone less.”— Crystal Woods, amazon.com
“That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart.”— Kristin Hannah, amazon.com
“They had battled and bloodied one another, they had kept secrets, broken hearts, lied, betrayed, exiled, they had walked away, said goodbye and sworn it was forever, and somehow, every time, they had mended, they had forgiven, they had survived. Some mistakes could never be fixed - some, but not all…”— Robin Wasserman, amazon.com
“Friends are a strange, volatile, contradictory, yet sticky phenomenon. They are made, crafted, shaped, molded, created by focused effort and intent. And yet, true friendship, once recognized, in its essence is effortless.”— Vera Nazarian, goodreads.com