“Here s to the path back home / we left in the mud / may we never walk it alone / again.”
“Things such as the idea of family and that of friendship are a sign of spiritual barbarism.”
“My instinct is not to speak, but I’m tired of silence. I’m tired of not knowing how to bridge the gaps between me and the others.”
“I have ‘like minds.’ You know, I’ve been fortunate to play in Los Angeles, where there are a lot of people like me. Actors. Musicians. Businessmen. Obsessives. People who feel like God put them on earth to do whatever it is that they do. Now, do we have time to build great relationships? Do we have time to build great friendships? No. Do we have time to socialize and to hang out aimlessly? No. Do we want to do that? No. We want to work. I enjoy working.”
“People decide what you’re like before they even get to know you. They think they know all about you. Except, you re never who they think you are.”
“She would have hesitated to admit she was intimate with her new friend in the high sense she privately attached to this term. She often wondered indeed if she ever had been, or ever could be, intimate with any one. She had an ideal of friendship as well as of several other sentiments, which it failed to seem to her in this case — it had not seemed to her in other cases — that the actual completely expressed. But she often reminded herself that there were essential reasons why one s ideal could never become concrete. It was a thing to believe in, not to see — a matter of faith, not of experience.”
“But she had after all a better reason for coming to Rome than that she cared for it so little. Her friend easily recognized it, and with it the worth of the other s fidelity. She had crossed the stormy ocean in midwinter because she had guessed that Isabel was sad.”
“Sometimes, we just need someone we can trust with the darker moments of our life. I’ll be that person for you.”
“It s important to build a strong network, both in your professional and personal life.”
“But we never really connected; standing side by side like soldiers, we were just marching through. It was sort of understood we wouldn’t stay in touch beyond the last summer of school. We were stand-ins for the people we were eventually supposed to meet.”
“I had fun, but I really didn t have anyone I particularly loved. And I still don t, except for loving friends. But I mean I haven t been in love with anyone for years and years... but I have a certain amount of faith that it will come.”
“When little, friends play house in order to pretend to be family, which is ironic because the beautify of friends is that they are chosen, not given. Should siblings, play friends? And so we make friends or find them? Emily Dickinson thought that the best verb was enact .”
“I guess what I m saying is of all the lives in all the towns in all the world, I m glad you walked into mine.”
“Your tribe is always bigger than you think.”
“The pleasures of friendship are exquisite, How pleasant to go to a friend on a visit! I go to my friend, we walk on the grass, And the hours and moments like minutes pass.”
“There were different categories of friends in Vince s opinion. Golf friends, work friends, old school friends, shipboard friends...but friend friends were harder to come by.”
“We, when invited to hang out with and by our friend, are often a Plan B, a Plan C, or even a Plan P.”