“I’ve been obsessed with my mom’s approval my whole life. I couldn’t risk losing it. But losing you guys is worse.”— Julia Cho, Domee Shi, Sarah Streicher, Meilin 'Mei' Lee (voice), Rosalie Chiang, imdb.com
“You accept that, even though you still care about them, you actually might be healthier without them. That will always be one of the most painful realizations of all.”— Caitlin Jill Anders, psiloveyou.xyz
“Sometimes you spend one day feeling wretched and then the next day, you feel miraculously better. It’s like you burned off something toxic by facing a dark truth about yourself. You took your humbling.”— Heather Havrilesky, thecut.com
“Making friends is notoriously difficult in adulthood, which might be why it’s so disheartening when a close friend moves away.”— Brittany Wong, huffpost.com
“We are committed to each other, loyal to each other, and very tolerant of each other, in spite of a lot of rocky shared history.”— Heather Havrilesky, thecut.com
“Much like you often just 'know' when you’ve found the love of your life, it’s possible to 'know' when you’ve found your work soulmate, too.”— Isabelle Kohn, melmagazine.com
“With plenty of work and depending on the reason for the breakup, former lovers can definitely maintain a friendship (read: your friend group doesn’t have to disband and take sides just because former besties broke up).”— Marilyn La Jeunesse, teenvogue.com
“There is no shortage of media counselling us to be mindful in love, to acknowledge our partners’ needs, and to compromise when necessary. And there’s an equal and opposite lack of such material when it comes to friendship.”— Philip Ellis, manrepeller.com
“When Facebook became a thing while I was in college, I longed for albums filled with my 12 closest girlfriends wearing matching college tees and cowgirl boots while holding matching tailgating tumblers of vodka and orange juice on a cold, crisp West Texas afternoon. Potential suitors would browse th…”— Jennifer Epperson, manrepeller.com
“Learning to be alone is one of the hardest and the best things I’ve ever done for myself.”— Meghan Nesmith, manrepeller.com
“It’s the friendships we break more so than the friendships we make that delineate the intelligent leader.”— Seth Zvi Rosenfeld, Sam Bromell, Mr. Gunns, Michel Gill, imdb.com
“You don't need everyone to love you. Just a few good people!”— Jenny Bicks, P.T. Barnum, Hugh Jackman, imdb.com
“If you're not over here in fifteen minutes, you can find a new best friend.”— John Hughes, Ferris Bueller, Matthew Broderick, imdb.com
“The idea that this is what it means to become platonically close with another woman conveniently explains away potential slips into romance.”— Sadie Graham, broadly.vice.com
“I want to know what it’s like to sit down with my friends and feel like they might understand me.”— NF, open.spotify.com
“If you had a really strong connection and a really strong love affair with a very erotic sex life, how do you become friends with that person?”— Rachel Sussman, time.com
“What we found is that when the couch surfer had more information about that other person he or she was going to meet, the resulting friendship after they met was weaker than in a world where the couch surfers did not have that amount of information about the unknown other.”— Clay Skipper, gq.com