The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.

In the military, you learn the essence of people. You see so many examples of self-sacrifice and moral courage. In the rest of life, you don't get that many opportunities to be sure of your friends.

There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.

Satan's friendship reaches to the prison door.

Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.

The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him, and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself, too.

I share my happiness and sorrow Because I know for once there will be no tomorrow If I wish to live in your memories I too have to be there to share your worries Speak up to your friend, am just a...

She had a sense of longing and loss that she had never had before. It was as if her family history had been erased and they'd been left unmemorable. She imagined that Rachel's family must have similar...

Even though everybody hates you, you'll always have a friend who protects you and wishes to uplift you from pain, misery and suffering and that will always turn and remain the hardest blow to those...

If you believe in the idea of true friends, then your heart is vulnerable to betrayal.

Good friends are much hard to find.

'So,' he says. 'When's the big day? Have you set a date yet?'...

And yet he found comfort in the absence of telling.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

A friend is a bird who can sing along with the songs of your heart.

Are you holding her? Wrath asked. There was a pause. As soon as I get this bow tied in the back - hold on, girlie. Okay, up you go. She's in a pink dress that Cormia made her by hand. I hate pink. I...

Magnus had often thought of getting a pet, but he had never considered acquiring a sullen teenage vampire. Once Raphael was gone, he thought, he was getting a cat. And he would always throw his cat a...

Will closed his eyes. He could not hear Jem go, not anymore; he did not want to know the moment when he left and Will was alone, did not want to know when his first day as a Shadowhunter without a...

How you been, Bernie? Royce greeted him. Going for a walk? Actually, I was about to find a place to relieve myself. Good, I'll go with you. Go with me? he asked nervously. I've been known to help...

It's all very well to tell us to forgive our enemies; our enemies can never hurt us very much. But oh, what about forgiving our friends?

"That's nice of you, but it's not necessary to loan me a car." "I loan you cars all the time." "And I almost always destroy them or lose them. I have terrible luck with cars." "Working at Rangeman is...

It was a little weird that they were friends. But then, maybe freaks just tended to find each other.

Plato worried that philosophical writing would take the place of living conversations for which, in philosophy, there is no substitute.

Ah, they said. Qué bueno. And after and for a long time to come he'd have reason to evoke the recollection of those smiles and to reflect upon the good will which provoked them for it had power to...

I can't divide Camille's loyalties. Who knows? He might make the wrong choice.

Good morning," she said. "Are you drunk?"She noticed what a split second it took for him to flare into aggression. "Do I look it?""No. Where is Citizen Danton?""I've done away with him. I've been busy...

What if all everybody needed in the world was to be sure of one friend? What if you were the one, and you refused to say those simple words?

I don't know why I keep asking you these questions. It's not like I expect you to answer, and even if you did answer, how would I know? But maybe that doesn't matter. Maybe when I ask you a question...

I will employ the gentle, vague expression "I'm not crazy about that on you," which should mean to you, "Holy shit, take that off, that looks terrible!" I owe it to you to give feedback like a cattle...

I think that real friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost always seems like a very hard desert, and the flowers that grow there seem to grow against such high...