Friends are the family you choose.
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 never be codified.
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
Thomas rocked back on his heels, then ran his arm across his forehead, wiping away the sweat. And at that moment, in the space of only a few seconds, he learned a lot about himself. About the Thomas that was before. He couldn’t leave a friend to die.
Friends are honest with each other. Even if the truth hurts.
True friendship resists time, distance, and silence.
We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.
We could fight and wrangle and name-call, but it didn’t change anything underneath. She was still my oldest friend. Is.
A good friend is a connection to life – a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.
If you have two friends in your lifetime, you’re lucky. If you have one good friend, you’re more than lucky.
You’re too hard on yourself,' she said. 'You can do long-term love. You’ve done it better than anyone I know.' 'How? My longest relationship was two years and that was over when I was twenty-four.' 'I’m talking about you and me,' she said.
I like myself better when I’m with you.