Quotes About Friendship

it takes two people to hurt you," I said. "The one who does it and the one who tells you.

I want to talk to her. I want to have lunch with her. I want her to give me a book she just read and loved. She is my phantom limb, and I can't believe I'm here without her.

She's talking about condominiums, my friend Betty Searle called up to say one day. Obviously she's involved with someone. Are you sure? I said. Of course I'm sure, said Betty. The question is who. She thought for a minute. Maybe it's Senator Campbell, she said. He's talking condominiums, too. Senators always talk about condominiums, I said. That's true, said Betty.

Men, he said as he left. I hate them. I've always hated them. You wonder why I always hang around with women and never with men, it's because men do things like this. He waved his hand vaguely at me and my stomach and jogged off into the night.

E-mail is a whole new way of being friends with people: intimate but not, chatty but not, communicative but not; in short, friends but not. What a breakthrough.

Arthur and Julie and Mark and Rachel. The Siegels and the Feldmans. It's not just that we were best friends—we dated each other. We went steady. That's one of the things that happens when you become a couple: you date other couples. We saw each other every Saturday night and every Sunday night, and we had a standing engagement for New Year's Eve. Our marriages were tied together.

As for egg salad, here's our recipe: boil eighteen eggs, peel them, and send six of the egg whites to friends in California who persist in thinking that egg whites matter in any way.

I had long since ceased to believe in the existence of that mystical sisterly loyalty women are alleged to feel toward one another.

Everyone needs] a woman who'll listen, take your side, tell the truth - or not, as you need it. A woman you can count on, no matter what, and who'll love you no matter how much you screw up.

Remind me not to piss you off Red. You might aim for the heart and shoot me in the balls.

Men shake hands after they beat each other up; we eat chocolate.

And don't worry." Bob, Carter's best man and colleague, held up a notebook computer. "I've got it handled on this end. And I memorized the vows just in case he needs me to throw him a line." "You're a treasure, Bob." She waited until she was out of earshot to laugh.

Maybe you could casually mention to Zoe that I'm not now, nor have I ever been, an axe murderer. I'll see if I can work it into our next conversation, Flynn promised.

Not enough. Margo rose and tucked the towel in place. Come on, let's go stuff her in a locker. For old time's sake.

Don't worry.... We are right behind you. Notice, Lilah added with a smile, the direction is behind.

Time with a friend was as refreshing as a nap.

It's not an exaggeration to say that they saved my life. Ray Quinn, then Cam and Ethan and Phil. They turned their world around for me, and because of it, turned mine around with it. Anna and Grace and Sybill, Aubrey too. They made a home for me, and nothing that happened before matters nearly as much as everything that came after.

Come on,let's go stuff her in a locker. For old time's sake.

Philip ripped at the wrapper of the plain, inadequately thin Hershey bar. No almonds. I don't care for nuts. You proved that when you slammed your foot between the legs of your friend this evening.

Properly trained, a man can be a dog's best friend.

Sometimes we hate her," Laurel said, then smiled at Parker. "But it's a hare based on love.

Friends are friends whenever you make them.

Old friends are the bricks and mortar of your life.

You don't cheat, steal, or lie. You don't misuse animals or take advantage of those weaker than you. You don't spoil for a fight—which is a rule come to be in the last few years—but you don't walk away from one. You stand for your friends and for your round in the pub. You never touch a woman who belongs to another, and you don't give your word unless you intend to keep it.