“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.”— Woodrow Wilson, books.google.com
“Being a best friend demands the same level of unwavering trust and commitment as being in a relationship. It needs a mutual understanding of both parties’ shortcomings, a level of maturity to look past these imperfections, and see the beautiful person that they first met as a stranger but later chos…”— Anonymous, thoughtcatalog.com
“We’re best friends because you make feel less alone in this psycho, flaky world. It’s amazing how often you can feel disconnected from people. It’s amazing how many people can betray you, or fail to understand the words that are coming out of your mouth. When I see you, it’s a burst of reassurance t…”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.com
“There’s something about the frantic, desperate friendships we form when we’re young that can simply never be reconstructed.”— Heidi Priebe, thoughtcatalog.com
“If you’re fortunate enough, you will find a person who sees this world in the exact same way that you do.”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.com
“Life is so messy and difficult. The best you can really hope for is that you have a friend who anchors you and makes you feel safe. It helps if this friend has really great hair too.”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.com
“A friend is someone who wants your updates. Even if they're boring. Or sad. Or annoyingly cutesy. A friend says 'Sign me up for your boring crap, yes indeed'--because he likes you anyways. He'll tolerate your junk’”— E. Lockhart, amazon.com
“We all want someone to build a fort with. We want somebody to swap crayons with and play hide-and-seek with and live out imaginary stories with. We start out getting that from our family. Then we get it from our friends. And then, for whatever reasons, we get it in our heads that we need to get that…”— David Levithan, amazon.com
“With that right person, you can have a late-night conversation at any time of the day.”— David Levithan, 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.”— Sarah Ockler, amazon.com
“'Two a.m.' He swallowed, then said, 'You know. The person you can call at two a.m. and, no matter what, you can count on them. Even if they're asleep or it's cold or you need to be bailed out of jail... they'll come for you. It's like, the highest level of friendship.’”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com
“Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.”— Richard Bach, amazon.com
“It's bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variations of the same desire to be close.”— Rachel Cohn, amazon.com
“I don’t care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching they are your family.”— Jim Butcher, amazon.com
“Friendships don't magically last forty years. You have to invest in them.”— Carrie Bradshaw, amazon.com
“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”— Jane Austen, amazon.com
“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