“A stranger is shot in the street, you hardly move to help. But if, half an hour before, you spent just ten minutes with the fellow and knew a little about him and his family, you might just jump in front of his killer and try to stop it. Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know is ba…”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.”— William Shakespeare, amazon.com
“Of course female friendship is a beautiful thing. It’s insanely powerful. Sisterhood is something so valid and important when you are growing up that I literally think the essence of it should be taught in schools. But, the ‘squads’ we see in the media are very polarizing. Feminism and friendship ar…”— Rowan Blanchard, usmagazine.com
“Friendship was witnessing another’s slow drip of miseries, and long bouts of boredom, and occasional triumphs. It was feeling honored by the privilege of getting to be present for another person’s most dismal moments, and knowing that you could be dismal around him in return.”— Hanya Yanagihara, amazon.com
“It was two people who remained together, day after day, bound not by sex or physical attraction or money or children or property, but only by the shared agreement to keep going, the mutual dedication to a union that could never be codified.”— Hanya Yanagihara, amazon.com
“Why wasn’t friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn’t it even better?”— Hanya Yanagihara, amazon.com
“I wanted to tell people, 'My depression is acting up today' as an excuse for not seeing them, but I never managed to pull it off.”— Ned Vizzini, amazon.com
“If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather.”— Stephen Fry, amazon.com
“You probably had no idea your friendship is exactly what the doctor ordered.”— Kristin Addis, amazon.com
“I never met a man half so true as a dog. Treat a dog right, and he'll treat you right. He'll keep you company, be your friend, and never ask you no questions.”— Mary Ann Shaffer, amazon.com
“A person can learn a lot from a dog, even a loopy one like ours. Marley taught me about living each day with unbridled exuberance and joy, about seizing the moment and following your heart. He taught me to appreciate the simple things-a walk in the woods, a fresh snowfall, a nap in a shaft of winter…”— John Grogan, amazon.com
“America, we need more cities organized like those in Europe. Sorry, BP, you (and your profits) can suck an egg.”— Kristin Addis, thoughtcatalog.com
“It was deeply a part of Lee's kindness and understanding that man's right to kill himself is inviolable, but sometimes a friend can make it unnecessary”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“In every bit of honest writing in the world, there is a base theme. Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love. There are shorter means, many of them. There is writing promoting social cha…”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“A guy needs somebody―to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long's he's with you. I tell ya, I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“I drink to the brew of our friendship; it goes to my heart, but never to my head.”— Anonymous, amazon.com