“People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.”— Lisa See, amazon.com
“How many times had I let myself connect with someone only to have it thrown back in my face?”— Jay Asher, amazon.com
“Cherish when many of your friends are together in the same place.”— Kovie Biakolo, thoughtcatalog.com
“Remember that you don’t have to be friends with everyone around you.”— E.J. Cenita, thoughtcatalog.com
“He just seems to get you. Like in the most simple, benign ways – he understands what you’re saying”— Smriti Notaniis, popxo.com
“One sure sign that he is trustworthy is that he has a couple of close friends that he has known for a long time and they easily trust him as well.”— Julia Kitlinski-Hong, lifehack.org
“I think that real friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost always seems like a very hard desert, and the flowers that grow there seem to grow against such high odds.”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“Maybe a friend is someone who wants your updates. Even if they're boring. Or sad. Or annoyingly cutesy.”— E. Lockhart, amazon.com
“It's better to have a few faithful friends than numerous shallow friendships.”— Jonathan Anthony Burkett, amazon.com
“A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.”— Jaron Lanier, amazon.com
“Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recognition.”— John O'Donohue, amazon.com
“Because the difference between a friend and a real friend is that you and the real friend come from the same territory, of the same place deep inside you, and that means you see the world in the same kind of way. You know each other even before you do.”— Laura Pritchett, amazon.com
“True friends are those who came into your life, saw the most negative part of you, but are not ready to leave you, no matter how contagious you are to them.”— Michael Bassey Johnson, amazon.com
“In your entire life, you can probably count your true friends on one hand. Maybe even on one finger. Those are the friends you need to cherish, and I wouldn't trade one of them for a hundred of the other kind. I'd rather be completely alone than with a bunch of people who aren't real. People who are…”— Sarah Ockler, amazon.com
“When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, amazon.com
“One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about.”— Mindy Kaling, amazon.com