8,502 Quotes About Friendship

  • Author Fredrik Backman
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    Elsa decides that even if people she likes have been shits on earlier occasions, she has to learn to carry on liking them. You’d quickly run out of people if you had to disqualify all those who at some point have been shits.

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  • Author John O'Donohue
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    Your noble friend will not accept pretension but will gently and very firmly confront you with your own blindness. Such friendship is creative and critical; it is willing to negotiate awkward and uneven territories of contradiction and woundedness.

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  • Author Cassandra Clare
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    Isabelle was holding an umbrella. It was clear plastic, decorated with decals of colorful flowers. It was one of the girliest things Simon had ever seen, and he didn’t blame Alec for ducking out from under it and taking his chances with the rain.

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  • Author Sarah Orne Jewett
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    The process of falling in love at first sight is as final as it is swift in such a case, but the growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.

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  • Author Charlotte Brontë
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    Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day.

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