“If your circle doesn't clap for your successes, that circle is cancelled.”— Brandon Woelfel, twitter.com
“I'm fine, Mom. Well actually, I'm not. You see, I had this friend. And this friend only pretended to like me. You know, the way Dad used to?”— Gary Markowitz, Major Franklin Marion Burns, Larry Linville, imdb.com
“Some people may not know you, but say they don't like you. Don't even trip off people like that who spend most of their time chatting about you. CLEARLY, [you're] doing something they [are] interested in. LIVE YOUR LIFE as long as [you're] not hurting [anyone] & let the miserable people hang [out] t…”— Missy Elliott, twitter.com
“It was so nice being friends again There I was giving you a second chance But you stabbed my back while shaking my hand”— Taylor Swift, open.spotify.com
“A fake story claiming Pope Francis — actually a refugee advocate — endorsed Mr. Trump was shared almost a million times, likely visible to tens of millions. Its correction was barely heard. Of course Facebook had significant influence in this last election’s outcome.”— Zeynep Tufekci, nytimes.com
“I despise the rituals of fake friendship. I wish we could just claw each other's eyes out and call it a day; instead we put on huge radiant smiles and spout compliments until our teeth hurt from the saccharine sweetness of it all.”— Jody Gehrman, amazon.com
“Always sleep with one eye open. Never take anything for granted. Your best friends might just be your enemies.”— Sara Shepard, amazon.com
“When they show you their true colors don’t try to paint a pretty picture with it.”— Sonya Parker, sonyaparker.com
“Fake friends; those who only drill holes under your boat to get it leaking; those who discredit your ambitions and those who pretend they love you, but behind their backs they know they are in to destroy your legacies.”— Israelmore Ayivor, amazon.com
“It may...be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion; but when I see a fellow-creature about to perish through the cowardice of her pretended friends, I wish to be allowed to speak, that I may say what I know of her character.”— Mary Shelley, amazon.com
“Fake friends are like shadows: always near you at your brightest moments, but nowhere to be seen at your darkest hour. True friends are like stars, you don't always see them but they are always there.”— Habeeb Akande, amazon.com