“Friendship is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You too? I thought that no one but myself. . .”— C. S. Lewis, amazon.com
“The temperance of [a] response to raking criticism, the readiness to seize what was just in it and to throw the husks away without undue friction or resentment or los of friendship—these show a kind of character which if it became general could change the course of human affairs.”— Brand Blanshard, amazon.com
“I missed him, of course, but sometimes close friendships have a tidal beat that pulls you towards different shores though the ocean that connects you remains.”— Russell Brand, amazon.com
“Wilber: Why did you do all this for me? I've never done anything for you. Charlotte: You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing.”— E.B White, amazon.com
“You’ll need coffee shops and sunsets and road trips. Airplanes and passports and new songs and old songs, but people more than anything else. You will need other people, and you will need to be that other person to someone else, a living breathing screaming invitation to believe better things.”— Jamie Tworkowski, amazon.com
“I'd like to start it out from the bottom and build with ya Be on my last dollar and split the bill with ya”— Kendrick Lamar, open.spotify.com
“There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other.”— J.K. Rowling, amazon.com
“[As] long as I feel like I got the people, they gon’ hear it and they gon’ listen so it’s gonna get me to places that I can only imagine, you know what I mean?”— Kendrick Lamar, vibe.com
“You'd be shocked how far it'd take you to just having relationships with people outside of the norm that you're even used to.”— Kendrick Lamar, noisey.vice.com
“Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.”— Fannie Flagg, books.google.com
“I freighted a leaf with a mental message for the friends at home, and dropped it in the stream. But I put no stamp on it and it was held for postage somewhere.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“The world was a terrible place, cruel, pitiless, dark as a bad dream. Not a good place to live. Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness - and love. Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you security and friendship and didn't ask anything in return; they never went away, never,…”— Cornelia Funke, amazon.com
“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.”— J.D. Salinger, amazon.com