“The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.”— Adrienne Rich, amazon.com
“I do not want to look for a mad passionate affair. Not because I’m frightened but because, please believe me, I do not want a lover. I want a friend.”— Anne Sexton, amazon.com
“Don’t trust people who don’t support you as you try to grow into a more mature and self-realized person. Don’t confide in people who aren’t as interested in your triumphs as they are in your downfalls.”— Danielle Mertina, fweakofcydonia.tumblr.com
“It seemed to her that there was something amateurish in bringing romantic love into touch with a perfectly straightforward friendship.”— Virginia Woolf, amazon.com
“Why wasn’t friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn’t it even better? 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 ne…”— Hanya Yanagihara, amazon.com
“My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.”— George R.R. Martin, amazon.com
“Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I’m glad for that.”— Ally Condie, amazon.com
“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”— Dale Carnegie, amazon.com
“Maybe we could be each other's soul mates. Then we could let men be just these great, nice guys to have fun with.”— Kristin Davis, amazon.com
“The calendar says I had known him only for a few months but there exist friendships which develop their own inner duration, their own eons of transparent time, independent of rotating, malicious music.”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com
“Friendship is the most underrated relationship in our lives. It remains the one relation not bound by law, blood, or money — but an unspoken agreement of love.”— Hanya Yanagihara, nymag.com
““Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh!" he whispered. "Yes, Piglet?""Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you.””— A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh, piglet, amazon.com
“One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.”— Aldous Huxley, amazon.com