“You were camouflaged snakes-in-the-grass.”
“Maybe friendship is being the guardian of another person s hope. Leave it with me and I ll look after it for a while , if it feels too heavy for now.”
“- A relação entre pais e filhos é diferente em cada família.”
“There are many things in the life of a Sufi, but the greatest is to have a tendency to friendship; this is expressed in the form of tolerance and forgiveness, in the form of service and trust. In whatever form he may express it, this is the central theme: the constant desire to prove one’s love for humanity, to be the friend of all.”
“She paused and added seriously, Isn t it funny the way we re talking, just as though we ve known each other for years and years. He said easily, Oh, I m a great believer in instant friendship.”
“Without fellowship, there is no friendship.”
“There is no love like to be there for each other at all times.”
“Laurel, Ash, and Holly. If there had to be a collective noun for us, it would be a forest. A forest of teenage girls.”
“...you can love something without loving everything about it. You don t have to feel embarrassed about not being proud. That applies to hockey, but it also applies to friends.”
“My grandfather taught me that if a friend asks for your forgiveness, you should always give it. [...] He also taught me that if you have to give it again, then they weren t a friend to begin with.”
“Imagine having a friendship like that. Like Hey there, pal...looks like you re having a weird day, so I understand if you need to trap me in a sleeping bag and rub the inside of a banana peel on me until I admit that my name is Dance Pony.”
“One who has learned friendship has learned religion; the one who has learned friendship has attained spiritual knowledge. The one who has leaned friendship need learn very little else; morals in Persian is friendship.”
“She doesn t turn her head to see if I m following. She knows I ll always follow.”
“It used to bother me when I read books where the main characters fell in love or became best friends after only knowing each other a short time. I’d complained about it to Tommy once, and he’d said that’s how it happens in real life. Everyone we meet begins as a stranger, so we project onto them who we need them to be until we get to know them. He said we have to fall in love with the idea of a person before we can fall in love with the actual person.”
“But by the time those acquaintances became close friends, it was too late. Perhaps there was a perfect moment in between, when you were close enough to tell but not so close it was problematic that you hadn t done so already, but it was infinitesimal, too fleet and fleeting to pin down, visible not even in hindsight.”
“Love, friendship, networking - these are all critical connections and the foundation of a healthy, happy life.”
“White people usually get really excited when a person of color likes them at all.”