“Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.”— Mario Puzo, 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.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.”— Charles Lamb, amazon.com
“A true best friend loves you even when it seems like you've gone off the deep end.”— Liz Fenton, 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, amazon.com
“You’re a true empath so when your friends are hurting, you are hurting, and this is why they love you.”— Nicole Tarkoff, thoughtcatalog.com
“She doesn’t put up with time wasters, which means the people close to her are pretty damn amazing. They make her laugh hard and love hard.”— Holly Riordan, thoughtcatalog.com
“Thank you for making me feel safe in knowing that wherever life takes me, I can always come back to you. I can always find a home in you. Thank you for not letting life and distance define our friendship.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“One thing people overlook is that friends can be anywhere. They don’t have to have the same diet or music taste or politics as you. They don’t have to be your age or your color or your class... Making friends can be one of the scariest fucking things you’ll ever do, but once you have them they’ll he…”— Adam Gnade, amazon.com
“Love is friendship. Just with less clothes, which makes it far more brilliant.”— Elizabeth Hunter, amazon.com
“It seems to me that the best relationships, the ones that last, are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is…”— Jeffrey Bell, Dana Scully, Gillian Anderson, imdb.com
“This book taught me, once and for all, how easily you can escape this world with the help of words! You can find friends between the pages of a book, wonderful friends.”— Cornelia Funke, amazon.com
“To avoid getting sucked into an almost-relationship, keep boundaries. Know what you would do for a good friend, what they would do for you, and subsequently, what you would do for a significant other. If you find yourself venturing into bf/gf territory on the regular, it might be time to step back a…”— Paige McPhee, narcity.com
“Almost relationships – A new concept our generation is acquainted with. The place where the other person in the relationship is led to believe that a friendship is going somewhere in the direction of a solid committed relationship. But really it isn’t. It’s stuck in one place but it gives the illusi…”— Kiran Karamchandani, thoughtcatalog.com
“I wasn’t hurt that he didn’t want to be my boyfriend. I was aware that it wouldn’t lead to anything, and I was sadder, about more than anything, that I would eventually be losing a friend.”— Rebecca Fields, thoughtcatalog.com
“Friendship depends on trust, not money, not power, not mere education or knowledge. Only if there is trust between us will there be friendship. Trust is related to whether we have a sincere motivation. If we’re serious about taking care of others, protecting their lives and respecting their rights,…”— Dalai Lama, facebook.com