“In fact, I have no real friend but you, and when I am in low spirits, I always think of you. I only wish you were here, that we might again talk together about moving to the country.”— Vincent Van Gogh, amazon.com
“Books became her friends and there was one for every mood. There was poetry for quiet companionship. There was adventure when she tired of quiet hours. There would be love stories when she came into adolescence and when she wanted to feel a closeness to someone she could read a biography. On that da…”— Betty Smith, amazon.com
“So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.”— Robert Louis Stevenson, amazon.com
“The companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.”— Mary Shelley, amazon.com
“The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?”— Eugene Kennedy, 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
“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. My attachments are always excessively strong.”— Jane Austen, amazon.com
“Concept: We go to a small bookstore. You lead me to the sections of all your favourite books, and explain the plots. You are excited, and I am just as happy because you’re sharing a part of yourself with me.”— lovingconcept, lovingconcept.tumblr.com
“The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we want to be duped and which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we dupe other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature w…”— Marcel Proust, amazon.com
“You know, sometimes when you’re too close to someone, it’s hard to see who they really are.”— Kirsten Miller, amazon.com
“We didn’t talk about anything heavy or light. We were just there together. And that was enough.”— Stephen Chbosky, amazon.com
“I have plenty of people around me to talk to, and no one to be honest with.”— Helen Oyeyemi, amazon.com
“That’s the thing about friendship, it’s a lot rarer than love, because there is nothing in it for any body.”— Owen Wilson, amazon.com
“We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com