“He knew I was gay for ages, he said, his voice soft. We both did. Since we were, like, ten or eleven, maybe. As soon as we understood what gay was, we knew that s what I was. We... We used to kiss sometimes, when we were kids. When we were alone. Just little childish kisses, little pecks on the lips because we thought it was fun. We were always... really affectionate with each other. We d cuddle and... we were kind to each other, rather than nasty like most children. I think we were so caught up in each other that we just... missed all the heteronormative propaganda that s thrust at you when you re that age. We didn t really realize it was weird until - yeah, until we were ten or eleven. But that didn t really stop us. I guess... I guess I always felt like it was more romantic than Aled did. Aled always just treated it like it was something that friends did rather than boyfriends. Aled... he s always been weird. He doesn t care what people think. He doesn t even, like, register the social norms... he s just caught up in his own little world.”
“You all listen now, this is a real lesson in life. Yes, we got stuck, but what d we girls do? We made it fun, we laughed. That s what sisters and girlfriends are all about. Sticking together even in the mud, specially in mud.”
“I hope that in the future... we’re as close as we are now... always.”
“No one worth knowing assumes anything about you.”
“The one thing I have insisted on with all of my friends, regardless of class or station in life, is to be able to speak truthfully. If I cannot be open and frank with a friend, or he with me, I drop him.”
“People were always wanting me to show some weakness so they could reassure me. It made them feel worthy.”
“[...] when you owe someone your life, can you really call them anything but your best friend?”
“No one picks a friend for us; we come together by choice. We are not tied together through ceremony or the responsibility to create a son; we tie ourselves together through moments. The spark when we first meet. Laughter and tears shared. Secrets packed away to be treasured, hoarded, and protected. The wonder that someone can be so different from you and yet still understand your heart in a way no one else will.”
“That s not what s going to happen. Why would you think I d want to lose you like that?”
“As if tears were the necessary lubricant without which the machine of mutual communication could not work successfully, the two sisters, after these tears, started talking, not about what preoccupied them , but about unrelated things, and yet they understood eachother.”
“No friendship is an accident. ”
“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.”
“Friendship is love without wings.”
“It takes a long time to grow an old friend.”
“Friendship needs no words.”
“My friends are everything without me but I am nothing without my friends.”
“There is no hospitality like understanding.”