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50 Touching Quotes To Send To Those Friends You've Known Forever

Friends are the family you choose.
Holly Riordan
March 30, 2017
“Friends are a strange, volatile, contradictory, yet sticky phenomenon. They are made, crafted, shaped, molded, created by focused effort and intent. And yet, true friendship, once recognized, in its essence is effortless.”
— Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
Tagged: Friends, Friendship, effortless
“That was the thing about best friends. Like sisters and mothers, they could piss you off and make you cry and break your heart, but in the end, when the chips were down, they were there, making you laugh even in your darkest hours.”
— Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane
Tagged: Friends, Sisters, mothers
“They had kept secrets, broken hearts, lied, betrayed, exiled, they had walked away, said goodbye and sworn it was forever, and somehow, every time, they had mended, they had forgiven, they had survived. Some mistakes could never be fixed - some, but not all. Some people can't be driven away, no matter how hard you try. Some friendships won't break.”
— Robin Wasserman, Greed
Tagged: Friends, Friendships, Friends Forever
“That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart.”
— Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane
Tagged: Friends, Hearts, Mirrors
“True love is finding your soulmate in your best friend.”
— Faye Hall, My Gift to You
Tagged: Friends, soulmates, Love
“It's only best friends who can be comfortable with silence, wouldn't you say?”
— Benjamin Wood, The Bellwether Revivals: A Novel
Tagged: Friends, Best Friends, Silence, Comfort
“Ten minutes with a genuine friend is better than years spent with anyone less.”
— Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading 2
Tagged: Friends, Time, Genuine
“A true best friend loves you even when it seems like you've gone off the deep end.”
— Liz Fenton, The Status of All Things: A Novel
Tagged: Friends, Best Friends, Love, Friendship
“A true friend is one you can go extended periods without seeing or talking to, yet the moment that you are back in touch, it's like no time has passed at all.”
— Ellie Wade, A Forever Kind of Love(Choices Series) (Volume 2)
Tagged: Friends, Time Apart, Best Friends
“The interesting thing I've learned about best friends is that you can have more than one.”
— April White, Cheating Death
Tagged: Friends, Friendships, Multiple
“It's an unwritten rule that best friends take care of each other.”
— Liz Fenton, The Status of All Things: A Novel
Tagged: Friends, Best Friends, caring
“Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.”
— Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You
Tagged: Friends, Life, Best Friends, Friendship
“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
— C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves
Tagged: Friends, Art, Philosophy
“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.”
— Charles Lamb, The Life, Letters and Writings of Charles Lamb
Tagged: Friends, Friendship, Nonsense, Respect
“Friendship - my definition - is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don't have trust, the friendship will crumble.”
— Stieg Larsson, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Tagged: Friends, Respect, Trust
“Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life--and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.”
— Dean Koontz, Fear Nothing
Tagged: Friends, Life, Death
“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Tagged: Friends, Drunk, puke
“True friends are always together in spirit.”
— L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
Tagged: Friends, Spirit, Together
“No friendship is an accident.”
— O. Henry, Heart Of The West
Tagged: Friendship, Accidents, purpose
“I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching--they are your family.”
— Jim Butcher, Proven Guilty
Tagged: Friends, Family, DNA
“Friends are the family you choose.”
— Jess C Scott, The Other Side of Life(Book 1, Pre-Final Version)
Tagged: Friends, Family, Choices
“A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.”
— Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter
Tagged: Friends, Strangers, Possibility
“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.”
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451: A Novel
Tagged: Friends, Friendship, kindness
“Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.”
— Mario Puzo, The Godfather
Tagged: Friends, Friendship, Government, Talent
“Time doesn't take away from friendship, nor does separation.”
— Tennessee Williams, Memoirs
Tagged: Friends, Time, separation
“One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about.”
— Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
Tagged: Friends, Friendship, Conversations
“When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays
Tagged: Friends, Friendship, Solid
“In your entire life, you can probably count your true friends on one hand. Maybe even on one finger. Those are the friends you need to cherish, and I wouldn't trade one of them for a hundred of the other kind. I'd rather be completely alone than with a bunch of people who aren't real. People who are just passing time.”
— Sarah Ockler, Fixing Delilah
Tagged: Friends, Friendship, Alone
“Friends are honest with each other. Even if the truth hurts.”
— Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride
Tagged: Friends, Truth, honest
“True friends are those who came into your life, saw the most negative part of you, but are not ready to leave you, no matter how contagious you are to them.”
— Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign
Tagged: Friends, Friendship, Negative