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.
—E. Lockhart in Real Live Boyfriends
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
—Hubert H. Humphrey
A broken friendship that is mended through forgiveness can be even stronger than it once was.
—Stephen Richards in Forgiveness and Love Conquers All
Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
—Arnold H. Glasow
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship—never.
—Charles Caleb Colton
Surface friends' is what I call it. When your friendship is merely a facade and you're enemies on the inside.
—Colleen Hoover in Confess
A family's not the people that you were born to. A family's who you choose to love.
—Melanie Shawn in Forever Us
When you meet an extraordinary person, it's like they get inside you, under your ribs, and shuffle everything inside you around until they find space for greatness to grow. But extraordinary people always get away. And when they leave, they take that little part of you with them. Suddenly you find yourself with a gap in your chest that you don't know how to live with. Suddenly you're frightened of being yourself without them.
—Chloe Rattray in Sacré Noir
A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend—and he's a priest.
—Erma Bombeck
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
—Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
—W. Somerset Maugham in Cakes and Ale or the Skeleton in the Cupboard
Shame is always easier to handle if you have someone to share it with.
—Craig Thompson in Blankets
Friendship leads to human connection, which feeds your soul. More than kale or spinning or fifteen-minute naps under your desk, conscious communication with your clutch friends is the best form of self-care.
—Karen Kilgariff in Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered