“You ll be my friend? As long as you want me.”
“Friends easy to get, Partner hard to find.”
“May the angels be your sacred companion.”
“HUNDRED FRIENDS WERE NO HELP. ONE ENEMY MADE ME WHO I AM”
“When seeking friends, seek quality not quantity.”
“When I am around her, I am quick to laugh and smile. She makes me forget about my loneliness and the emptiness inside of me, just for a little while.”
“All these years later, I ll be back on that dance floor. I will be swaying and the music will fill me and I will be a girl again. My friends will be there, and we ll dance all night, one song after another, and we will be laughing and laughing in each others arms. I will be thirteen again, or fourteen, or twenty-six, or thirty, breath and rhythm, everyone awkward and ridiculous and perfect. We will be young, we will be alive, and I will be deeply grateful for these friends. I know that I was lucky to find them, the kind of friends who bring you halfway across the world, who fly with you to Puerto Rico, who hold you at your grandmother s funeral, who invite you into their home, invite you into their families, take care of you, check on you, fight for you, who make you want to be better, who give you their time and attention, share their secrets, their dreams, their communities, who show up, who see you, who hear you calling from hundreds of miles away, and slowly, slowly, love you back to life.”
“True friends trust their friends to make their own choices. Support them, even if they don t agree”
“You feel like you’re mine.” “It’s because I am. Always have been.”
“There is courage, I think, in open-mindedness, and thinking for oneself. If you are a witch, then perhaps witches are not so wicked after all.”
“We’ll create our own love story. I can promise you that.”
“It s always rewarding watching your homeboys get decapitated.”
“I don t know why I ask. It would be easier not to know. It s easier to hurt someone when you don t stop to ask them how they feel, or what they want. Easier to stop someone s heart if you never bother to care about what s beating inside it - Jack”
“When someone s asking too much of us, maybe we make the sacrifice because that s what our friend needs , says Jordan Pickell ... But [...] it s important to pay attention to feelings of anger, resentment, or frustration, which can be a signal that you re being stretched beyond your capacity. A healthy friendship , Pickell continues, is one where people. are bringing their true feelings and needs into the relationship .”
“No one human can meet your every single emotional need.”
“There is, perhaps, no surer mark of folly than an attempt to correct the natural infirmities of those we love. The finest composition of human nature, as well as the finest china, may have a flaw in it; and this, I am afraid, in either case is equally incurable, though, nevertheless, the pattern may remain of the highest value.”
“Watch hugged her back and spoke in her ear. ‘I’ll tell you a secret,’ he said. I’m never sad around you guys.”