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Quotes About Friendship

If you are causing trouble, look for allies, always.
~ Justine Larbalestier
You're not completely alone, you have me! Even if the entire world turns its back on you, you'll still be the strongest as long as you have me!
~ Kyo Shirodaira
When others cannot find something to hold onto … we can reach out and be their anchor in that moment.
~ Aaron Woodall
A benefit of friendship is knowing whom to tell secrets to.
~ Alessandro Manzoni
Is the any sincere friend like the Saviour, Lord Jesus Christ?
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Be careful whom you confine in.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
No true friendship takes account of credit and debt. It gives freely, without thought of compensation or reward.
~ Una McCormack
When darkness threatens your world, friends can be beams of sunshine if only you'll let them.
~ Emily March, Nightingale Way
In poverty a man is alone. But with prosperity, He has many friends.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Friendships are one of the greatest ways to express love.
~ James Van Praagh
East Side, West Side, all around the town,The tots sang "Ring-a-rosie," "London Bridge is falling down";Boys and girls together, me and Mamie O'Rorke,Tripped the light fantastic on the sidewalks of New York.
~ James W. Blake
We must remember that keys like intimacy, devotion, faithfulness and friendship with God are how you embrace the One who calls you and ultimately discover your calling.
~ James W. Goll
They stared fondly at each other, remembering simpler days of unclouded idealism. Goodrich shook his head. "Solomon, you son of a bitch! What are you doing here?" Mark smiled exasperatedly, almost defensively. "I've been lonely for my family. Then I heard you were back. That did it. I came down.
~ James Webb
What's the point of having a book club if you don't get to eat brownies and drink wine?
~ Jami Attenberg
I am on Team Drunk Lady, obviously.
~ Jami Attenberg
Old college friends post links to reviews of it on my Facebook wall and say things like, "Sounds like something you'd like," or "This reminded me of you." I think, Am I supposed to like this? I don't, in fact, like it. I dislike it. Where is my dislike button? Where do I click to scream?
~ Jami Attenberg
Barbra joined her at the table and sipped from an enormous glass of water filled with lemon slices. Ah, yes, and there's her lunch, she thought.
~ Jami Attenberg
Then she calls me and she's crying and we talk for a while about her marriage and while I am sad that my friend is sad, it makes me happier than ever that I've never been married and never will be, because marriage sounds like a goddamn job, and why would I want another one of those?
~ Jami Attenberg
We have expectations of our friends. I thought she was gone forever, off to Baby World, like all the other people in my life who've had children: Miriam,
~ Jami Attenberg
One more drink and we're sharing our rape stories. Nearly every woman I know has one. If I had a nickel for every time I've heard one of these stories I could buy an enormous, plush pillow with which to smother my tear-stained face.
~ Jami Attenberg
Jim looked at him. He was lying on his front with a meadow grass sticking out from his mouth. How did Doyler do this? He could make Jim so angry with himself, so ashamed. The next minute, he was all alive, like a spark was inside, like the full of him was electric. How did Doyler do this to him? He really didn't know.
~ Jamie O'Neill
What country is that without a friend in it?
~ Jamie O'Neill
But it wouldn't be the same if it wasn't Easter,' said Jim. 'Indeed and it wouldn't. Are we straight, so?' 'We're straight as a rush.' Doyler spat on his hand and Jim did likewise and their palms rubbed in the smear. 'The crawl it is,' said Doyler and he slipped from the raft. Before he joined him and the sea would wash it away, Jim sniffed his wetting palm. A private smell. Like leather, bodily, raw.
~ Jamie O'Neill
Well, no boy loves his chum, or no boy says he does. But he answered, I do. I do, he answered as in some preposterous dissenting nuptial. And MacMurrough remembered how touching it was that a young fellow in a stranger's bed should say that he loved his friend.
~ Jamie O'Neill