“As far as I’m concerned, the only thing sweeter than seeing a friend is that friend canceling on me.”— Maria Semple, amazon.com
“But it takes years to finally see what they mean is sisterhood is not competition. Sisterhood is how women learn to survive when a whole world wants them to be just one thing.”— Ari Eastman, amazon.com
“Most of us save our best behavior for those whom we barely know and show our worst side to those we know the best.”— Sheila Wray Gregoire, amazon.com
“Intimacy is about sharing something with your spouse that you don’t share with anybody else. It’s letting him in. It’s laughing together. And it’s also feeling that deep hunger for each other!”— Sheila Wray Gregoire, amazon.com
“We talked for hours. Long, rambling conversations about everything under the sun. Spending time with her was intoxicating. We seemed to have everything in common. We shared the same interests. We were driven by the same goal. She got all of my jokes. She made me laugh. She made me think. She changed…”— Ernest Cline, amazon.com
“I understood her, trusted her, and loved her as a dear friend. None of that had changed, or could be changed by anything as inconsequential as her gender, or skin color, or sexual orientation.”— Ernest Cline, amazon.com
“But friends don’t lean in just a little too close. They don’t grin and slap your hand as you try to change the song in the car or flirt with you in the street at 2am.”— Steven Nolan, thoughtcatalog.com
“Friends are supposed to make you feel good about yourself. Just remember that.”— KatyScar, facebook.com
“You don't have to worry about going out with your friends without him or her.”— Nicole Yi, popsugar.com
“A guy and a girl can be just friends, but at one point or another, they will fall for each other. Maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late, or maybe forever.”— 500 Days of Summer, amazon.com
“Sometimes people just don't want to play with you, and that's okay.”— Suzanne Warren, rollingstone.com
“You can’t be friends with someone who’s in love with you if you don’t love that person back the same way.”— Meg Cabot, amazon.com
“If you give a man a fish he'll eat for a day, if you teach a man to fish he'll eat all the fish you may have caught for yourself.”— Meg Cabot, amazon.com
“As you age, you lose other, even more important things, like friends--hopefully only bad friends, who maybe weren't as good for you as you once thought.”— Meg Cabot, amazon.com
“In LA, people who met each other three months ago at a party are now the closest friends in the whole wide world.”— Mindy Kaling, twitter.com