friendship

I hate it when people talk like friendship is less than other kinds of - as though it's some kind of runner-up prize for people who can't have sex.

When I arrived back at Intro to Basic Art again later that week, I thought for a moment we had a new student who didn__ know about the assigned seats. Sitting at my table was a girl in a long flowered dress, very vintage-hippie. She actually was wearing real flowers in her hair, and hardly any make up. I sat down, ready to explain to this poor lost soul that the seat was already taken, when I looked again and realized it was the same girl. I ended up not saying anything at all; I couldn__ think of anything that wouldn__ be rude or just plain stupid.

If you make friends with yourself, you'll never be alone.

She was as necessary as the sun to me

The very fact that a Frenchman was prepared, after tow minutes of conversation, to be so friendly towards anyone, especially one who had come from England, made me restless.

their eyes are full of kindness as each feels the full effect of novelty after a short separation. They are drawing a relaxation from each other's presence, a new serenity.

You know, maybe we don't need enemies.""Yeah, best friends aree about all I can take.

When I met Millie, she was a hugger. She hugged over everything. I didn__. We came to an agreement that hugs are reserved for prolonged partings and death. That__ it. At least, I thought that was our agreement. It seems like she__ figured out how to steal hugs more frequently. Millie__ turned into a hit and run hugger.

If he can__ handle it, then you aren__ very good friends, are you?

Gregory?_ I called. I couldn__ help myself. It was irrational, but I was scared to see him run from me. He turned my direction, his feet pivoting in the dirt. Warily, I crossed into the light for a moment. __o you, um_ I inhaled deeply. __o you think you__l still want to be my friend tomorrow?_ I held my breath and waited for his answer. Although I could feel the sunshine perceptibly tingle every inch of exposed skin, the way Gregory smiled at me produced a swell of warmth unmatchable even for the sun. ____l always want to be your friend, Annabelle. Do you want to be mine?_ My head nodded like mad, ecstatic, all on its own. I disappeared among the shadows again and watched my new friend until he stepped around the Hopkins_ house. Then I waited until his car drove off -- Gregory and his mother headed for home. I was on a high like no other, but I__ not lost my grasp on reality entirely. I knew that the real test would come Monday. It was one thing to befriend an outcast in the privacy of the woods, but quite another to risk ridicule and reputation when surrounded by peers. This was true even for those with the biggest of hearts, which I now believed Gregory Hill to have.

Love yourself as you love your neighbour. If you love your neighbour with a heavy heart, love yourself too with a heavy heart.

Men come and go, but best friends are irreplaceable.

I would sooner lose my best friend than my worst enemy. To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.

Life__ gonna kick you in the butt.That__ what it does. But if you gotta put up with this crap, the least you can expect is that your friends will stand by you. I mean, for crying in the night, what else are friends for but to help you make right what isn__ in life? (Kira, The Mishmorat)

I looked forward to making friends at school, but I had come late and friendships had already been formed. I couldn__ find my way into their world. They seemed to have a secret code I couldn__ decipher.

Do you know, Mrs. Allan, I'm thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much." "True friendship is a very helpful thing indeed," said Mrs. Allan, "and we should have a very high ideal of it , and never sully it by any failure in truth and sincerity. I fear the name of friendship is often degraded to a kind of intimacy that had nothing of real friendship in it.

He makes no friends who never made a foe.

If your best friend truly is the person who knows you completely and loves you anyway, wouldn't that be your mother?