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Quotes About Friendship

Rock n' roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family, friendship and community.
~ Steven Van Zandt
The best kind of friend is the kind you sit with, never say a word and walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you ever had.
~ Steven Wright
A friend of mine once sent me a post card with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space. On the back it said, 'Wish you were here.
~ Steven Wright
Love me, Love me, I cried to the rocks and the trees, And Love me, they cried again, but it was only to tease. Once I cried Love me to the people, but they fled like a dream, And when I cried Love to my friend, she began to scream. Oh why do they leave me, the beautiful people, and only the rocks remain, To cry Love me, as I cry Love me, and Love me again.
~ Stevie Smith
Raise from your bed of languor Raise from your bed of dismay Your friends will not come tomorrow As they did not come today You must rely on yourself, they said, You must rely on yourself, Oh but I find this pill so bitter said the poor man As he took it from the shelf Crying, O sweet Death come to me Come to me for company, Sweet Death it is only you I can Constrain for company.
~ Stevie Smith
The pleasures of friendship are exquisite, How pleasant to go to a friend on a visit! I go to my friend, we walk on the grass, And the hours and moments like minutes pass.
~ Stevie Smith
They should." "Should be like a wood bee," she said. It was a private joke, a mocking appreciation of the slipperiness of even the simplest hope, a nonce catchphrase like so many others lifted from favorite movies or TV shows that served as a rote substitute for conversation and bound them like shut-in twins, each other's best and, most often, only audience.
~ Stewart O'Nan
Her address book confirmed it, the pages inhabited equally by the living and the dead....Each name called up raucous dinner parties and gin-and-tonics on sunny patios, lazy Saturday afternoons at the swim club, station wagons filled with noisy boys in polyester baseball uniforms.
~ Stewart O'Nan
Friendship- my definition- is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don't have trust, the friendship will crumble.
~ Stieg Larsson
One day a year let's all pretend that death is tucked up, fast asleep. That no lives meet a tragic end, no dreams are shattered on the cheap. The world's at peace, there are no wars, we hug our friend, our former foe. No beggars die outside locked doors, all cells are empty on death row. Nobody's stabbed, nobody's shot, no car runs over someone's friend. This can't be true! – Well, maybe not. All I'm saying is: let's pretend.
~ Stig Dagerman
Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.
~ Sting
Despite the intensity of our brief friendship in Sacramante, Liviana Tricante never came to visit me.
~ Storm Constantine
He'd never eaten out with Owen before, and their clothes invoked curious glances from the staff of the restaurant.
~ Storm Constantine
Life without Gimel, especially, was unthinkable to me now.
~ Storm Constantine
Beth was a pleasurable fantasy, but I liked to think she looked upon me as an imaginary friend.
~ Storm Constantine
Have you ever stopped to consider what changed Valraven from the friend you loved into the cold creature that could kill without thinking?
~ Storm Constantine
Among the tubes, aloneness is a thing to be avoided. We thrive in each other's company.
~ Storm Constantine
I stopped walking and looked hard at this grand woman who had once been a girlhood friend. We had not known each other very long, but our friendship had been intense and intimate for all its brevity.
~ Storm Constantine
After a week, Lydia's few friends in the district had come to investigate her absence from their gatherings, and had taken charge. Ari remembered them; big women in loose dresses with bare legs or overalls and sandals. They rationed Lydia's alcoholic intake, cleaned the house, and talked in low, shocked voices that could not hide the relish and excitement they felt at this unexpected tragedy.
~ Storm Constantine
We giggled again, like girls. We were so different, yet the interval of years was meaningless. It was as if we'd seen each other every day since then. Very few friendships have this magic.
~ Storm Constantine
Over the last ten years, when she could have been cultivating Varencienne's friendship, she had left her to her own devices. What an oversight not to realize the quiet little teenager would turn into a stubborn and independent woman. Varencienne had been a nobody here in Magrast, hidden in the shadow of her brothers. In Caradore, she'd found status and power, things that any Malagash craved, although Varencienne herself would be the last to admit it.
~ Storm Constantine
I am yours, my friend.
~ Storm Constantine
Lonely Ays, imprisoned in an icy structure he had built around his heart. Casmeer did not like this person, but neither could he abandon him. Not yet. Ays had a story, a life. It had to be written. A history had formed for Ays, a changeable history. Where had it come from?
~ Storm Constantine
Daniel had passed the point where he could tell himself to drop Owen Winter's friendship. He'd tried it in the past, but Owen only had to appear again and Daniel would be powerless.
~ Storm Constantine