Quotes About Friendship

If you're lucky, the friends you make when you're sixteen stay with you for the rest of your life. If you're smart, you know when it's time to let them go.

Can I tell you honestly that I'd rather be in your life as your friend than nothing at all?

Naveen: Oh, come on. Throw a guy a bone. Elisabeth: Are you a dog? Naveen: Are you a bitch? That was how we became friends.

So, you work with Marcy?" Wayne earned points for what appeared to be sincere interest. "Yes. She's in public accounting and I'm in corporate, but we both work for the same company." Wayne grinned. "Me, I'm in murders and executions." "Wayne!" Marcy rolled her eyes. "He means—" "Mergers and acquisitions. I got it.

Yeah. That boy over there. He's my friend.' My gaze followed his pointing finger toward a little boy wearing a stuffed steering wheel attached around his waist and running around a racetrack laid out on the floor. 'Oh, yeah? What's his name?' 'I don't know.' Simon shrugged, unconcerned, and headed back to the playground. I watched him leap right into the game with a friend whose name didn't matter.

It's easy to learn who your real friends are after an accident

pain clinging to me—like a good friend,

Margaret expected her friends to "be capable of seeking something." She cared little what that something was, only that her friends "should not be satisfied with the common routine of life,—that they should aspire to something higher, better, holier, than they had now attained.

Even with the best intentions, growing apart might just be an inevitable part of growing up.

Women will always choose the man over the best friend. This is a sad but true fact of life, and it's only this certitude that makes me unashamed to admit it.

We're your friends," said Bridget. "And we're worried about you,"said Pepe. "I'm fine." Then I mean to laugh a silly, carefree kind of laugh, but it came out more maniacal than intended. "HAH-hee-hee-hah-hah-HAH!" Bridget and Pepe exchanged terrified looks.

In theory, you're supposed to get everyone's names and become lifelong friends. I literally had contact with half the kids here last night, but how in hell do they expect me to differentiate one of my butt-to-butt dancing partners from another? Am I supposed to randomly rub my buttocks up against people to see if we've bonded booties before? "Yes, the particular musculature of your ass does feel familiar. 1 remember you now!" Duh.

And for the first time all summer, The Mall was exactly where I wanted to be.

Bridget is my age and lives across the street. For the first twelve years of my life, these qualifications were all I needed in a best friend. But that was before Bridget's braces came off and her boyfriend Burke got on, before Hope and I met in our seventh grade Honors classes.

By going through what we have, we helped each other be the people we're supposed to be.

I'm in the Toad Pee Club!

said back into the phone. The manhole was exactly halfway between Judy's front door and Rocky's. Over the summer they had measured it with a very long ball of string.

Stink thought he knew everything now that he was starting second grade.

Sometimes living with memory, with the thought of what friends, those who shared your soul and dreams, will do to you is worse than taking a bullet or having someone stab your flesh. There is a way of bleeding from one's soul.

Manuelo: Have another muffin. They're still warm from the oven. Chloe: My life is a mess, Manuelo. Another muffin isn't going to help. Manuelo: It can't hurt.

Chloe Carlson: But don't think I'm all alone without Lennon. Oh, no. I'll be perfectly fine. I still have my friends, Ben and Jerry. Riley Carlson: They're my friends too!

Meghan's a columnist at the L.A. Times," the friend said. "I'm sure you've read her.

To be chronically ill is to be in a state of ever-present "camouflaged grieving," as the historian Jennifer Stitt puts it. It was this ever-present grief I felt was being swept under the rug when my friend counseled me to see the good that had come of my illness. She wasn't wrong that something had come of it—but her quick counsel negated the complexity of the quest.

Everybody took me under their wing and didn't make fun of me for not knowing anything about theater.