Quotes About Friendship

You know how it is between sisters in their middle age? that old old friendship, how loose-fitting it is? the comfort and safety in it? how you can let silence lie between you without it taking on any weight? how you can let words out of your mouth without wariness or precision because you know your sister will listen to what's worthwhile and let the rest fall out of her ears into the air? how you can be surly, unreasonable, stupid, in the certainty of her grace?

When Lady Grizel gave Mrs Brock not one, but two grey flannel suits,

Now, shut up, old boy,' the Captain said kindly, as he put down his leather-covered malacca stick.

Aroon is always on the outside looking in, always the unwanted hanger-on, the gooseberry.

When I eat with my friends, it is a moment of real pleasure, when I really enjoy my life.

People were kind and friendly and amusing, but they thought that companionship and conversation were synonymous, and some of them had voices that jarred in your head. There was a lot to be said for dogs. They understood without telling you so, and they were always pleasing to look at, awake or asleep, like Bingo. He slept now, with little whistling snores, in his basket at the side of the fire, his stubby legs and one whiskery eyebrow twitching to the fitful tempo of his dreams.

Buying kids booze was against the law but hell, it wasn't the worst thing he'd done. After that, it turned into a thing—they'd see him and wave, and they knew his name and let him be one of theirs, one of them. They cut a small place in the world for him to belong.

it takes two people to cut you to the heart: an enemy to slander you and a friend to tell you what the enemy said.

All this I told Juniper, and she listened in the quiet, dispassionate way she had when you told her something truly terrible. It was as if she was joining things together in her mind, making some act of love and healing where otherwise all was violence and despair.

She just waited. Rosie had no choice. She'd have to do it on her own. She'd do anything for Amy, even hear whatever she was about to hear, on her own. The consultant was in his office. It was as untidy as always. He didn't smile. It wasn't a bad sign. He

Where to, Ona?" Belle asked, slowing down. They were on a first-name basis now, united in female solidarity after a twenty-minute conversation about cats. How women cemented alliances over less than nothing impressed him anew.

Mangeons, my friend. Mangeons tellement que la nourriture bouche tout dans le cerveau et qu'il n'y ait plus de place pour rien qui fait mal.

I had a friend whose family had dinner together. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. They even had a spare bike for a friend. It just seemed so amazing to me.

Books are like friends you can never put them down no matter how much you hate it...

A true warrior is always armed with three things: the radiant sword of pacification; the mirror of bravery, wisdom, and friendship; and the precious jewel of enlightenment

The Art of Peace is based on the Four Great Virtues: Bravery, Wisdom, Love, and Friendship, symbolized by Fire, Heaven, Earth, and Water

Oh, you have a kitchen! I'm gonna like this place very much.

He can do it any time he wants,' says Zelda, hugging me from the other side. 'Any time he sees a Nazi, he can just do a poo.

My friend Zelda once said that tears are how we give love a wash, so it doesn't go mouldy.

My friend Zelda once said that tears are how we give love a wash, so it doesn't go mouldy.

Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.

If your friend wishes to read your 'Plutarch's Lives,' 'Shakespeare,' or 'The Federalist Papers,' tell him gently but firmly, to buy a copy. You will lend him your car or your coat - but your books are as much a part of you as your head or your heart.

I have a very dear friend, a great painter, called me up very upset, the work wasn't going well… He asked me to come to his studio -- which I did -- I looked around at the work, dozens of sketches, drawings, large pictures, and I was very close to his work, intensely involved with his work, and he asked me, 'What's wrong?' And I said, 'Simple – it's a loss of nerve.

Friendship doesn't disappear like love does.