“He had once thought it was strange to have a friend you'd never met. Now it was even stranger, losing a friend you'd never really had”

“Friends come and go but I wouldn't have thought you'd be one of them”

“Oh if life were made of moments
Even now and then a bad one--!
But if life were only moments,
Then you'd never know you had one.”

“Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.”

“If there was one thing she was learning from all this, it was how easy it was to lose everything you had always thought you'd have forever.”

“You'll find, my friend, that what you love will take you places you never dreamed you'd go.”

“There are no strangers, only friends you have not met yet.”

“The Hazer would be arriving at about the same time as Ulysses and the three of them could spend a pleasant evening. It was not too often that two good friends ever visited here at once.
He stood a bit aghast at thinking of the Hazer as a friend, for more than likely the being itself was one he had never met. But that made little difference, for a Hazer, any Hazer, would turn out to be a friend.”

“You'd tell the world what your best friend wore to sleep if you thought it made a good enough story.”

“She was a stranger now, but she'd been a friend once, and that was enough for him.”