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Quotes About Friendship

More than friends, eh? More than friends... You know, my mother once told me that half of the hatred that springs up between people is rooted in this mistaken belief that there's any human relationship more sacred than friendship.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
I think it's swell that there are people you don't have to worry about when you don't see them for a long time, you don't have to wonder what they do, how they're getting along with themselves. You just know that they're all right, and probably doing something they like.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
Half of the hatred that springs up between people is rooted in their mistaken belief that there is any human relationship more sacred than friendship.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
I met St. John at Clara Lee's soiree—she was great friends with my mother, and at that time I had to keep meeting people and meeting people in case one of them was someone I could marry.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
Katherine, I could die horribly here in this chair, and my blood could spray all over the room and cover the pages of that fascinating book you're reading, and I believe, that you'd just wipe the worst away and keep going.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
They looked around with drained faces and drank less than their friends did, barely wetting their lips so as to keep their secrets.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
Other things my best friend said to me: That two years was but a short span.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
And she told Monste all about it as she poured coffee into vases for them both. (It was true! It was true!)
~ Helen Oyeyemi
If you've...got someone within ten minutes' walk who can make you laugh and someone else within a five-minute walk who can help you mourn, you're a millionaire.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
I hate that my life is teaching me that I can only be loved if I put my love out of reach and just drift about people until they love my remoteness. I'm not just talking about romances but about friendships too. Whoa, Mia, you're too intense. I get a lot of that. So I know that I won't be loved the way I need to be.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
Half of the hatred that springs up between people is rooted in their mistaken belief there is any human relationship more sacred than friendship..
~ Helen Oyeyemi
More than friends, eh? More than friends . . . You know, my mother once told me that half of the hatred that springs up between people is rooted in this mistaken belief that there's any human relationship more sacred than friendship.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
Sure, I've occasionally told Louis Chen that I hope a monster eats him, and he's told me to go boil my head a few times, but that tends to be in the heat of the moment, and anyway we're getting married once we get old enough, so we don't have to make nice all of the time.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
Show kindness to all, be gentle and loving, then all will love you
~ Helen Rappaport
When you ask God for a gift, Be thankful if he sends, Not diamonds, pearls or riches, but the love of real true friends.
~ Helen Steiner Rice
Falling in love with him was completely unexpected. When you only see someone as a friend, you don't expect anything else. There was definitely a moment when something quite magical happened and we both agree that it transformed our relationship.
~ Helena Bonham Carter
Tell me," said Leo. "You've written a beautiful book. Why haven't we heard from you before? What was wrong with your earlier work? Too good or not good enough." "Not good enough," I said. And he nodded and went on to something else, and I think that's when we became soul mates.
~ Helene Hanff
My problem was that by this time the Colonel and I had already had thirty straight hours of Togetherness and I'm not equipped for it, not even with the best friend I have on earth, which he isn't.
~ Helene Hanff
benchmark with your friend (or someone else) as you take steps toward resolving the problem.
~ Helene Lerner
We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people.
~ Helmut Kohl
Nostalgia settled on my shoulders like the arm of a long-lost friend, urging me to look back and listen; it had been years since I heard such morning sounds, such silence.
~ Helon Habila
Every secret we confide in another person can be a burden to them
~ Henning Mankell
This man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated!
~ Henny Youngman
My soft voice and demeanor were useless. In a pint jar, I carried a cremated friend, like flesh scraped from a cistern.
~ Henri Cole