“A true friend is one you can go extended periods without seeing or talking to, yet the moment that you are back in touch, it's like no time has passed at all.”— Ellie Wade, amazon.com
“The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?”— Eugene Kennedy, en.wikiquote.org
“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
“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
“Falling in love for us meant falling into talk. We talked about our memories, broken bones, broken hearts and one broken marriage. We talked about our mothers, one Jewish and one Italian, constantly cooking and feeding. We talked about our fathers, neither of whom cooked or fed. We talked about frie…”— Molly Pascal, nytimes.com
“We were never the things that people write songs about or someone says, "That. I want that." We were the laundry piling up on the couch because no one bothered to put it away and dirty footprints on the tile because it was more fun to go out in the rain without shoes. We were cheap wine that led to…”— Kendra Syrdal, 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
“Any woman that would complain about your standards being too high has probably already compromised her own. Any man that would complain about your standards being too high is more than likely used to dealing with women who have none.”— Mr. Amari Soul, 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
“Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.”— Leo Tolstoy, amazon.com
“There is nothing so mortifying as to fall in love with someone who does not share one's sentiments.”— Georgette Heyer, 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
“Remember now and then that there is a man who would die to keep someone you love beside you”— Charles Dickens, 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
“Ah, if everyone was as sensitive as you! There's no girl who hasn't gone through that. And it's all so unimportant!”— Leo Tolstoy, 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