Maybe a friend is someone who wants your updates. Even if they're boring. Or sad. Or annoyingly cutesy. A friend says, "Sign me up for your boring crap, yes indeed"—because he likes you anyways. He'll tolerate your junk.

About E. Lockhart

Emily Jenkins (born September 13, 1967), who sometimes uses the pen name E. Lockhart, is an American writer of children's picture books, young adult novels, and adult fiction. She is best known for the novels The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks and We Were Liars; the latter was adapted into...

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I can't forget things, or ignore them—bad things that happen. I'm a lay-it-all-out person, a dwell-on-it person, an obsess-about-it person. If I hold things in and try to forget or pretend, I become a madman and have panic attacks. I have to talk.

—E. Lockhart in Real Live Boyfriends

ignorance forgetting obsession panic

I love the idea of the big life—the life that matters, the life that makes a difference. The life where stuff happens, where people take action. The opposite of the life where the girl can't even speak to the boy she likes; the opposite of the life where the friends aren't even good friends, and lots of days are wasted away feeling bored and kind of okay, like nothing matters much.

—E. Lockhart in Fly on the Wall

On some level, even though it never turns out to be true, and even though I should know better, I still expect life to be like the movies.

—E. Lockhart in The Boy Book

More quotations tagged with “companionship”

The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.

—Jackie Kennedy

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In short I will part with anything for you but you.

—Mary Wortley Montagu

love sacrifice companionship

It is fun to be in the same decade with you.

—Franklin D. Roosevelt

time companionship fun

A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.

—Gian Vincenzo Gravina

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I realize, for the first time, how very lonely I’ve been. How comforting the presence of another human being can be.

—Suzanne Collins in The Hunger Games

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Maybe a friend is someone who wants your updates. Even if they're boring. Or sad. Or annoyingly cutesy. A friend says, "Sign me up for your boring crap, yes indeed" — because he likes you anyways. He'll tolerate your junk.