“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”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

“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.”

Stephen Sondheim (1930) American composer and lyricist

“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.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

“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.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

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

Tony Kushner Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes

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

W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright

“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.”

Clifford D. Simak book Way Station

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

Patricia Briggs (1965) American writer

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

Nicholas Sparks book The Last Song