“Every friendship travels at some time through the black valley of despair. This tests every aspect of your affection. You lose the attraction and the magic. Your sense of each other darkens and your presence is sore. If you can come through this time, it can purify with your love, and falsity and ne…”— John O'Donohue, amazon.com
“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, poemhunter.com
“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.”— Charles Lamb, 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
“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.”— James Boswell, amazon.com
“Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that.”— Ally Condie, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day.”— George Foreman, npr.org
“I lied. Um, I did know Hannah Baker. We worked together all the time at the Crestmont. We had classes together. Uh… She was my friend. And I miss her… really fucking bad. I didn’t know how empty it would feel. There’s this big part of the world that’s just…just gone, and everyone else just keeps mov…”— Hayley Tyler, Clay Jensen, Dylan Minnette, imdb.com
“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.”— Woodrow Wilson, books.google.com
“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”— Anonymous, en.wikiquote.org
“Yeah, that's right. I stepped up! She's my friend and she needed help. And if I have to I'd pee on any one of you.”— Wil Calhoun, Joey Tribbiani, Matt LeBlanc, imdb.com
“The findings offer tantalizing evidence for the vague sense we have that friendship is more than shared interests or checking off the right boxes on a Facebook profile. It’s about something we call good chemistry.”— Natalie Angier, nytimes.com