“In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It’s important to combine the two in just the right amount.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“It seemed like you could know me. Like you could understand anything I told you. And the more we spoke, I knew why. The same things excited us. The same things concerned us.”— Jay Asher, amazon.com
“I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can play together all night.”— Bill Watterson, 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
“We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.”— Thomas Moore, amazon.com
“Seek the ones who never stop caring, who break down your walls, and help you come back to yourself.”— Yasmin Mogahed, amazon.com
“Brad, Joe, Rob, Dave, and I love you all very much. Thank you so much for respecting our privacy during this extremely difficult time.”— Mike Shinoda, twitter.com
“There is a primal reassurance in being touched, in knowing that someone else, someone close to you, wants to be touching you. There is a bone-deep security that goes with the brush of a human hand, a silent, reflex-level affirmation that someone is near, that someone cares.”— Jim Butcher, amazon.com
“I hadn’t realized how much I’d been needing to meet someone I might be able to say everything to.”— Elizabeth Berg, amazon.com
“Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.”— David Levithan, amazon.com
“Sometimes an understanding silence was better than a bunch of meaningless words.”— Mia Sheridan, amazon.com
“Adult friendship = 2 people saying "I haven't seen you in forever! We should really hang out more" over and over again until one of you dies”— Lyndsey Gallant, twitter.com
“Friendship depends on trust—not money, not power, not education. Only if there’s trust will there be friendship.”— Dalai Lama, twitter.com
“If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am. And I don’t want them to carry it around inside. I want them to show me, so I can feel it, too. I want them to be able to do whatever they want around me.”— Stephen Chbosky, amazon.com
“We didn’t talk about anything heavy or light. We were just there together. And that was enough.”— Stephen Chbosky, amazon.com