Quotes About Friendship

Every night with good friends is a special occasion.

LOVE IS A FOUR-LEGGED WORD.

I'm never lonely when I'm writing, because you live with the characters that are so alive in your mind. And you really see them and know them and get to be friends with them.

Mandy tidied the weeds and pulled out some of the summer flowers. It saddened her to do so. She was parting with beloved friends.

Take it as a token. Because tomorrow when I go, I want you to believe friends are possible.

This is my fault. Mine. Making her think I'd be here for her.

Year after year. "Please don't make me go [to school]" "You have to go," Kim would say. "It's a new school, make a new start." "Sticks and stones." from Chip. Words will only kill you.

Is that all I am? A friend?" "Of course not," I say. "I love you." "Am I the only one?" she asks. "Yes. Completely." First, last, and always.

I know it's hard on her. If I don't tell her she'll kill me." He pauses. "That was supposed to be funny.

It's actually the fourth,' I say, 'if you count getting fired from CopyMax.' 'Which we do not.' Jo slit-eyes me. She scoops up a handful of Fritos and tosses them into her mouth. I try to keep a straight face, but it's hard when I add, 'Fired for copying your naked butt and gluing it on your boss's chair.

I don't fall out with people easily but several female friends I have had to cut loose because they would press their unwanted sexual attentions on me when they were drunk, and, as I've said, I fancy women very rarely and when I do, they're in their 20s. It's so sucky being a feminist Hugh Hefner.

If people displease me too much, I just leave 'em to it. There's no point in trying to change people -- and there are a million people out there one could be equally good friends with. Generally I forgive very easily, and then one day I just switch off. It's best that way, or else you spend your life fretting.

My second husband believed I had such a fickle attitude to friendship that each Friday he would update the list of my 'Top Ten' friends in the manner of a Top Of The Pops chart countdown.

I made friends easily, probably because I was spontaneous and average, which didn't intimidate people. It's the quiet ones kids are unsure about.

Books are my friends, where it's okay to be silent, where you're not a freak if you don't want to get drunk, peel out in the parking lot, tip cows.

Char bought a pack of clove cigarettes, claiming they tasted good, to which I ask why doesn't she just go suck on a clove so I don't have to inhale her perfumed second hand smoke?

I didn't have a boyfriend. I had someone to watch horror movies with while my best friend was too sick with cancer.

You come into this world alone and die alone, but there's a really long stretch in the middle that can be extraordinarily meaningful and even fun with the right people. And when it's not fun, they'll be with you, too.

Friendship might be free, but it requires a real, solid investment. And you know, the occasional baked good never hurts

It's important to remember that people can go off the deep end; it doesn't mean they have to stay there. And when they come back, it's nice to have a friend waiting with a warm towel.

I do believe giving advice is a -- maybe at times misguided -- form of showing care, as much as we might chafe at it. If you look at where it's coming from, a loving place, and take it with a modicum of grace, you can allow your friends to care for you. And as my mother says, God willing, you'll live long enough to give them unwanted advice right back

friends talk her into this. Standing

The nice thing about having a friend who is crazier than you are is that she bolsters your belief in your own sanity.

There are times with your friends when you just have to put their whole mess out of your mind for a while.