Friends Quotes

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Mandy Hale
“Celebrate the people in your life who are there because they love you for no other reason than because you are YOU.”
Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass

Jennifer Elisabeth
“I can do this… I can start over. I can save my own life and I’m never going to be alone as long as I have stars to wish on and people to still love.”
Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

Michael Bassey Johnson
“Always remember that you were once alone, and the crowd you see in your life today are just as unecessary as when you were alone.”
Michael Bassey Johnson

Douglas Pagels
“A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.”
Douglas Pagels

Chris Bradford
“Wherever it is you may be, it is your friends who make your world.”
Chris Bradford, The Way of the Sword

Jess C. Scott
“Never mind, said Hachiko each day. Here I wait, for my friend who’s late. I will stay, just to walk beside you for one more day.”
Jess C. Scott, Skins, Animal Stories

Adrienne Rich
“No person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to be so alone. There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep, and still be counted as warriors.”
Adrienne Rich, Sources

“Somewhere between a friend and acquaintance—a frequaintance, as it were.”
Rachel Cohn, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Trenton Lee Stewart
“One problem with being a leader, is that even among your friends you are alone, for it is you -- and you alone -- to whom the others look for final guidance.”
Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society

Arundhati Roy
“Enemies can't break your spirit, only friends can.”
Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

Erik Pevernagie
“Unfailing friends are essential, when ‘presence’ and ‘absence’ are wrangling in our daily living, and our presence is rampaged by murk and woe, while passion and lust for life are trampled. Reliable allies can shore us up and since we are our best ally, we first have got to make sure we get along well with ourselves. ("Being my best friend”).”
Erik Pevernagie

Beverly Lewis
“Books are like friends to me. Words come alive on the page.”
Beverly Lewis The Betrayal

Sarah Rees Brennan
“Friends don't menace friends with giant terrifying swords, okay?”
Sarah Rees Brennan, The Demon's Covenant

Jennifer Elisabeth
“Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back. I’m going to help you forgive the things that you won’t let yourself forget.”
Jennifer Elisabeth

Gabrielle Zevin
“Friendship,” Marx said, “is kind of like having a Tamagotchi.”
Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Mandy Hale
“Look around you at the people you spend the most time with and realize that your life can’t rise any higher than your friendships.”
Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass

Kobayashi Issa
“In the city fields
Contemplating cherry-trees...
Strangers are like friends”
Issa, Japanese Haiku

William Blake
“When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend”
William Blake

Criss Jami
“Ask anyone and they'll most likely say their family is crazy, and if they don't say their family is crazy, their friends are crazy. That's because everyone is crazy after taking the mask off. People are most themselves when not really trying to fit in, when either alone or around those already closest to them, and that is crazy.”
Criss Jami, Killosophy

Cassandra Clare
“Clary," he said. "You're Clary. You're my best friend.”
Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

“She existed in her friends; there she was. All the parts of herself she'd forgotten. She knew herself best when she was with them.”
Ann Brashares, Sisterhood Everlasting

Ana Monnar
“Choose your friends and mates, not by the money in their bank account, creed, ethnicity, or color; instead, choose character, actions, heart, and soul. When we bleed, we bleed the same color.”
Ana Monnar

Arthur Conan Doyle
“By the way, Doctor, I shall want your cooperation.'
'I shall be delighted.'
'You don't mind breaking the law?'
'Not in the least.'
'Nor running a chance of arrest?'
'Not in a good cause.'
'Oh, the cause is excellent!'
'Then I am your man.'
'I was sure that I might rely on you.”
Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal in Bohemia

Sinclair Lewis
“It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.”
Sinclair Lewis, Arrowsmith

Thomas Bernhard
“The only friends I have are the dead who have bequeathed their writings to me--I have no others.”
Thomas Bernhard, Concrete

Heather Dixon Wallwork
“She looked at him, his soft brown eyes and tall form, and contemplated raising herself on her toes and kissing his ear, or his cheek...

Instead, impulsively before leaving, she reached up and smoothed his mussed hair.

Mr. Bradford beamed.”
Heather Dixon, Entwined

Claudia Gray
“All of my best friends are dead people. Someday I've got to figure out how that happened.”
Claudia Gray, Afterlife

Michelle Hodkin
“He shrugged. “I have a stomach thing. Don’t get close.”

“Well, now you’ve spoiled everything,” I said casually, working hard to fake it. “I was planning to seduce you in the broom closet.” I pointed. “Right there.”

A joyless smile appeared on Jamie’s lips. “We are far too screwed-up for a goddamned love
triangle.”

That’s my Jamie.”
Michelle Hodkin

Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson