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Quotes About Friendship

Okay, I guess you can come in." "Um, Hannah, you have to, you know, open the front door so I can actually come in." "I thought you were going to - you're standing under my window. Aren't you supposed to climb up here or something?" "My ladder's at home. Also, you call throwing rocks at your window clichéd?
~ Elizabeth Scott
She did the "we have mysterious hand gestures that make us giggle" thing.
~ Elizabeth Scott
I knew from Brianna that being beautiful wasn't all great. Brianna had changed in middle school. One day we were both seventh graders and the next, she was a supermodel who had a seventh grader for a best friend.
~ Elizabeth Scott
Pam replied that she was too old to worry about being cool, but in fact she did worry about it, and that's one reason it was always nice to see Bobby, who was so uncool as to inhabit—in Pam's mind—his own private condominium of coolness.
~ Elizabeth Strout
Both of them laughed until they had tears in their eyes, and even then they kept on laughing. But Mary thought: Not one thing lasts forever; still, may Angelina have this moment for the rest of her life.
~ Elizabeth Strout
I never wrote him. I never saw him again. He was just gone, this dear, dear man, this friend of my soul in the hospital so long ago, disappeared. This is a New York story too.
~ Elizabeth Strout
He had a friend. He would have said this if he could, he would have said it, but there was no need: Like his sweet Sophia who loved her Snowball, Abel had a friend. And if such a gift could come to him at such a time, then anything-dear girl from Rockford dressed up for her meeting, rushing above the Rock River-he opened his eyes, and yes, there it was, the perfect knowledge: Anything was possible for anyone.
~ Elizabeth Strout
Olive can understand why Chris has never bothered having many friends. He is like her that way, can't stand the blah-blah-blah. And they'd just as soon blah-blah-blah about you when your back is turned.
~ Elizabeth Strout
Cindy looked up at this woman before her; she saw in her eyes a distinct light. "I can call you Olive. Hello, Olive." Cindy looked around and said, "Here, pull up that chair.
~ Elizabeth Strout
But there is this: Both with the discovery of David's illness, and then again with his death, it was William I called first. I think—but I don't remember—that I must have said something like "Oh William, help me." Because he did. He got my husband to a different doctor—a better one, I do believe—although there was nothing any doctor could do at that point. And then, with the death, William helped me again.
~ Elizabeth Strout
with the group of Somali men who gathered
~ Elizabeth Strout
But it's a sad story, Lucy. Both Pam and Jim are in New York and they always will be, and I will always be here in Maine." We sat in silence while I absorbed this. Oh, he broke my heart!
~ Elizabeth Strout
You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Of all cold words of tongue or penThe worst are these: "I knew him when—"
~ Arthur Guiterman
Don't tell your friends about your indigestions: "How are you!" is a greeting, not a question.
~ Arthur Guiterman
In civilized society [a person] stands at all times in need of the cooperation and assistance of great multitudes," Smith wrote, "while his whole life is scarce sufficient to gain the friendship of a few persons.
~ Arthur Herman
Being "civilized" had originally meant living under Roman, or "civil," law; but at the dawn of the Renaissance it had come to denote a way of life and law distinct from that of barbarism. It included prohibitions against murder, incest, and cannibalism; belief in a transcendant creative divinity; respect for property and legal contracts; and essential social institutions such as marriage, friendship, and the family.
~ Arthur Herman
Cliques are groups, groups are great, great are cliques of people.
~ Arthur McNallan
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
~ Arthur Miller
Come back, come back, dear friend, only friend, come back. I promise to be good.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
Uyan?k geçen geceler I I??kl? bir dinleniÅŸ bu, ne hararet ne bitkinlik, yata??n üzerinde veya çay?rlar?n üstünde. Dost bu, ne ateÅŸli ne zay?f. Dost. Sevgili bu, ne ac? veren ne ac? çeken. Sevgili. Hiç aranmam?? hava ve dünya. Hayat. -Demek bu muydu? -Ve rüya ÅŸiddetleniyor
~ Arthur Rimbaud
For believe me, in this world which is ever slipping from under our feet, it is the prerogative of friendship to grow old with one's friends.
~ Arthur S. Hardy
Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
wall. But one day Rusty Wren told him that his cousin, Long Bill Wren,
~ Arthur Scott Bailey