Quotes about friend
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“You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend.”

Richard Jeni (1957–2007) American comedian

“Even if you forget everything else I want you to always remember that you are a person of value, and you have a friend who loved you enough to give you his most valued possession.”

Bette Greene book Summer of My German Soldier

Source: Summer of My German Soldier

Love, Personality, Forgetting

“Her best friend was gone and nobody understood that no amount of makeup, fresh air or shopping was going to fill the hole in her heart.”

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

Source: P.S. I Love You

Heart

“Hell,” he said. “Just when it was getting interesting, too.” And he leaped into the water after his friend.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

Hell, Water

“You want to go play with your new friends back there? The really pale ones with the taste for plasma? --Shane”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Lord of Misrule

“I didn't have any friends at school, didn't want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

School

“Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.”

Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867–1957) American children's writer, diarist, and journalist

“A monster. You and your friends, all of you. Pretty monsters. It's a stage all girls go through. If you're lucky you get through it without doing any permanent damage to yourself or anyone else.”

Kelly Link (1969) American writer

Girl

“It was a weird kind of loneliness, feeling that some of my closest friends didn’t actually know I existed.”

Sarah Dessen (1970) American writer

Source: Saint Anything

Feeling, Loneliness

“Your noble friend will not accept pretension but will gently and very firmly confront you with your own blindness. Such friendship is creative and critical; it is willing to negotiate awkward and uneven territories of contradiction and woundedness.”

John O'Donohue (1956–2008) Irish writer, priest and philosopher

Source: Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

Friendship

“Fear is a friend who's misunderstood”

John Mayer (1977) guitarist and singer/songwriter

Source: Continuum: Music by John Mayer

Fear

“I always tell the girls never take it seriously, if you never take it seriously you never get hurt, if you never get hurt you always have fun, and if you ever get lonely just go to the record store and visit your friends.”

Cameron Crowe (1957) Academy Award-winning American writer and film director

Source: Almost Famous

Girl, Hurt

“Don't blame us," said my mother. "We didn't blow up half of Court, steal a dozen cars, call out a murderer in the middle of a crowd, or get our teenage friend crowned queen."

"Actually," said Abe, "Iblow up half of Court.”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

Cars

“Your former friend Luke " Poseidon corrected. "He once promised things like that. He was Hermes's pride and joy. Just bear that in mind Percy. Even the bravest can fall.”

Rick Riordan book The Titan's Curse

Source: The Titan's Curse

Joy

“My friend has a baby. I’m recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

Baby

“a friend is a second self”

Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman

“It is good to dress in fair clothes to dine with friends. It honors your host, if you are a guest; and your guest if you are a host. And both adorn the feast, and so celebrate the gifts of the world.”

Alison Croggon (1962) contemporary Australian poet, playwright and fantasy novelist

World, Clothes

“Like the Bible tells us, when a man will lay down his life for a friend, well, then there ain't no greater love in this here world than that.”

Bette Greene book Summer of My German Soldier

Source: Summer of My German Soldier

Love, Life, World

“Renee was beautiful, but she was my friend now. On the other hand, Annette was my friend, but now she was beautiful. makes about as much sense as anything ever does with girls”

Jordan Sonnenblick (1969) American writer

Source: Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie

Beauty, Girl, Sense

“Every murderer is probably somebody’s old friend.”

Agatha Christie book The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Hercule Poirot
Source: The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)

“In life, there are only four kinds of girls:
The girl who played with fire.
The girl who opened Pandora's Box.
The girl who gave Adam the apple.
And the girl whose best friend stole her boyfriend.”

Candace Bushnell book The Carrie Diaries

Variant: In life, there are only four kinds of girls:
The girl who played with fire.
The girl who opened Pandora's Box.
The girl who gave Adam the apple.
And the girl whose best friend stole her boyfriend.
Source: The Carrie Diaries

Life, Girl, Box

“The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.”

Rita Mae Brown (1944) Novelist, poet, screenwriter, activist

Many sources attribute this quote to Brown without giving a specific reference to her writings. The earliest located is the following variation from p. 47 of Musgrave Landing: Musings on the Writing Life by Susan Musgrave (1994), which Musgrave quotes as "Rita Mae Brown's warning": "If you become the kind of writer who calls forth heated emotional states, be careful. There are a lot of unbalanced people out there. The statistics on insanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's got to be you."
Disputed

Thinking, Suffering

“For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.”

Henry Fielding book The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

Source: The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

Hope, Imagination, Forgiveness

“Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet

Feeling, Friendship, For Friend, For Bestfriend

“Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls;
For, thus friends absent speak.”

John Donne (1572–1631) English poet

Verse Letter to Sir Henry Woton, written before April 1598, line 1
Variant: More than kisses, letters mingle souls.

Soul, Kiss

“It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.”

Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) American folklorist, novelist, short story writer

Coffee

“What if all everybody needed in the world was to be sure of one friend? What if you were the one, and you refused to say those simple words?”

Richard Russo Empire Falls

Source: Empire Falls

World

“[The] maid of honor - the unambiguous, grown-up equivalent of wearing best friend necklaces.”

Emily Giffin (1972) American writer

Source: Love the One You're With

“Sam dropped me off. When she was too far away to see me, I started to cry again. Because she was my friend again. And that was enough for me.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Cry

“They just knew. And I think that's all you can ever ask from a friend.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Thinking

“That was the thing about best friends. Like sisters and mothers, they could piss you off and make you cry and break your heart, but in the end, when the chips were down, they were there, making you laugh even in your darkest hours.”

Kristin Hannah (1960) American writer

Source: Firefly Lane

Sister, Heart, Cry, Friendship

“Once, maybe I would have thought you a fool, but… well, that's kind of what trust is, isn't it? A willful self-delusion? You have to shut out that voice that whispers about betrayal, and just hope that your friends aren't going to hurt you.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: The Final Empire

Hope, Fools, Betrayal, Hurt

“The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

Courage, For Bestfriend

“Somewhere between a friend and acquaintance—a frequaintance, as it were.”

Rachel Cohn (1968) American writer

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“I like to stay cozy with my paranoia, not pass her around to my friends and family.”

Jim Butcher Turn Coat

Source: Turn Coat

Family

“Black is a girl's best friend.”

Ellen Schreiber (1967) American writer

Source: The Coffin Club

Girl

“Truth springs from argument amongst friends.”

David Hume (1711–1776) Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian

Misattributed

Truth, Spring, Friendship

“I knew she was right. Of course she was right. Bex was always right. She knew me better than I knew myself. But then again, isn't that a best friend's job?”

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

Source: United We Spy

“We are friends for life. When we’re together the years fall away. Isn’t that what matters? To have someone who can remember with you? To have someone who remembers how far you’ve come?”

Judy Blume (1938) American children's writer

Life

“Sometimes it is only a True Friend who knows what we mean when we try to speak.

Somebody who has spent a lot of time with us, and listens carefully to what we are trying to say, and tries to understand.”

Cressida Cowell book How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse

Source: How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse

Understanding, Time

“Poppy: Um, can we cross running water?
James: Sure. And we can walk into people's homes without being invited, and roll in garlic if we don't mind losing friends.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Secret Vampire/Daughters of Darkness/Spellbinder

People, Home, Water

“Always be true to your friends, just as you are to yourself.”

Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist

Source: Glitter Girls and the Great Fake-Out

“Thanks for putting me up for it…." As V's eyes flared, Butch said, "Yeah, I looked up what the word meant. 'Beloved Friend' fits you perfect as far as I'm concerned."

V Flushed. Cleared his throat. "Good Deal, cop. Good… deal.”

Jessica Bird book Lover Revealed

Source: Lover Revealed

Perfection

“So how do you know him? (Shahara)
I knocked on his door one day and said, ‘Hi, I’m here to rob you. Hope you don’t mind. Oh, and by the way, will you be my friend?’ (Syn)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Born of Fire

Hope, Way

“He was poor, yet always appeared to be giving something away; a stranger, yet everyone was his friend; no longer young, but as happy-hearted as a boy; plain and peculiar, yet his face looked beautiful to many.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

Happiness, Beauty, Boy, Appearance

“(Nykyrian spun about at the sound, his blaster leveling at the body in the doorway.)
Whoa. Friend! (He tapped his chest twice.) Really good guy. ‘Member me? (Syn)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Born of the Night

Guy

“When they finished laughing they were on their way to being not just friends, but the dearest of friends, the sort of friends whose lives are shaped by the friendship.”

Robin McKinley book Spindle's End

Source: Spindle's End

Friendship, Way

“Best friends are always together, always whispering and laughing and running, always at each other's house, having dinner, sleeping over. They are practically adopted by each other's parents. You can't pry them apart.”

Jerry Spinelli book Loser

Source: Loser

Parent, Sleep, Housing

“A real education takes place, not in the lecture hall or library, but in the rooms of friends, with earnest frolic and happy disputation.”

Stephen Fry (1957) English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist

Happiness, Education

“Don't listen to the malicious comments of those friends who, never taking any risks themselves, can only see other people's failures.”

Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes

Source: Eleven Minutes

People, Failure

“Alec was closeted, shy, obviously insecure, and obviously hung up on his blond friend Trace Wayland.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: The Course of True Love [and First Dates]

“Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

“When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.”

Henry Miller (1891–1980) American novelist

“Only literature can grant you access to a spirit from beyond the grave—a more direct, more complete, deeper access than you’d have in conversation with a friend.”

Michel Houellebecq (1956) writer

Source: Submission

Literature

“Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.”

Shirley MacLaine (1934) American actress

Don't Fall Off the Mountain http://books.google.com/books?id=f6yc35pUhEwC&q=%22The+more+I+traveled+the+more+I+realized+that+fear+makes+strangers+of+people+who+should+be+friends%22&pg=PA160#v=onepage (1970) <br class="br">Variant: The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

People, Fear

“Be prepared. A dog is adorable and noble.
A dog is a true and loving friend. A dog
is also a hedonist.”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

Source: Dog Songs

Love, Dogs

“We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have to do our level best to keep up with them.”

Oswald Chambers (1874–1917) British missionary

God, Books

“I shall choose friends among men, but neither slaves nor masters. And I shall choose only such as please me, and them I shall love and respect, but neither command nor obey. And we shall join our hands when we wish, or walk alone when we so desire.”

Ayn Rand book Anthem

Anthem (1937)

Love, Men

“He was the strangest of strangers in that he was also her oldest friend.”

Ann Brashares (1967) American children's writer

“Don't worry, Otto. I'm an acquired taste. Most of my best friends had to know me for years before they could even stand my presence. I'm like mold, I usually grow on you very slowly. (Tabitha)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Variant: she said with a smile. "I'm an acquired taste. Most of my best friends had to
know me for years before they could even stand my presence. I'm like mold, I usually grow on you very
slowly.
Source: Seize the Night