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To My Best Friend...We Might Be Weird but We're Real

I think they understood and that's all you could really ask for in a friend 
Kirsten Corley
August 9, 2016
“Nothing like being with people you’ve known almost your entire life. Having a shared history is something you just can’t create with the new ones. No matter how much you like that, it just isn’t the same. ”
— Jane Green, Second Chance
Tagged: Friends, History, Memories, Love, Friendships, Best Friends
“Why wasn’t friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn’t it even better? It was two people who remained together, day after day, bound not by sex or physical attraction or money or children or property, but only by the shared agreement to keep going, the mutual dedication to a union that could never be codified.”
— Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life: A Novel
Tagged: Friendship, Friends, Friendship vs. Realtionships, Resist
“I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth”
— Patti Smith, Just Kids
Tagged: Contradiction, Truth, Understanding, Learning, Growing, Friendship, weird loving friendship
“We went our separate ways, but within walking distance of one another.”
— Patti Smith, Just Kids
Tagged: Friendship, Closeness, Intimacy, separation, weird loving friendship
“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, Real Live Boyfriends: Yes. Boyfriends, plural. If my life weren't complicated, I wouldn't be Ruby Oliver (Ruby Oliver Quartet)
Tagged: Friendship, Friends
“Life is so messy and difficult. The best you can really hope for is that you have a friend who anchors you and makes you feel safe. It helps if this friend has really great hair too.”
— Ryan O'Connell, You Can’t Get Through Your 20s Without A Best Friend
Tagged: Friendship, Love, Best Friends, Friends
“We’re best friends because you make feel less alone in this psycho, flaky world. It’s amazing how often you can feel disconnected from people. It’s amazing how many people can betray you, or fail to understand the words that are coming out of your mouth. When I see you, it’s a burst of reassurance that I’m not the only who looks at the world this way. There’s someone else. And that someone is you.”
— Ryan O'Connell, This Is Why You’re My Best Friend
Tagged: Friendship, Best Friends, Friends
“I have learned that if I want a real opinion on something, I have to ask my German friends, because they will tell it to me straight.”
— Kristin Addis, 8 Things About The United States That Seriously Confuse People From Everywhere Else
Tagged: Germany, Straight Shooting Germans
“Ah, if he could only die temporarily!”
— Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Tagged: Wisdom, humor, Funny, Death, temporary death, relationship troubles, sick of you, solutions, People, humanity, Friends, Friendship, weird loving friendship
“Friendship is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You too? I thought that no one but myself. . .”
— C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves
Tagged: weird loving friendship, Friendship, Friends, Understanding, Beliefs, Values, Connection, agreement, foundation
“Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.”
— Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You
Tagged: weird loving friendship, Friend, The World, Life, ugly, ugliness, Truth, Best Friends, Friendship
“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, it has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
— C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves
Tagged: Friendship, Friends, Understanding, Connection, agreement, foundation, Useless Things
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
— Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
Tagged: weird loving friendship, Friend, World, inside of us, arrival, born, Rebirth
“There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.”
— Irving Stone, Clarence Darrow for the Defense
Tagged: weird loving friendship, Books, Friendships, Love, Literature, Connection
“Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.”
— William Shakespeare, The Passionate Pilgrim
Tagged: weird loving friendship
“There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.”
— J.K Rowling, Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone
Tagged: weird loving friendship, Magic, Harry Potter, trolls, activity, Love, like
“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: weird loving friendship, Privilege, Friendship, Nonsense, ridiculousness, goofy, Silly
“The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.”
— Jay McInerney, The Last of the Savages
Tagged: weird loving friendship, Friendship, God, Gift, families, Family, Apology, Apologies
“A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.”
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
Tagged: weird loving friendship, snowball, goofy, Silly, playful, lasting friendship, Beginnings, Beginning, Perfection, Perfect
“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: Friendship, weird loving friendship, mutual, Respect, Trust, Values, elements, definition
“I am always saying 'Glad to've met you' to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.”
— J.D Salinger, The Catcher In The Rye
Tagged: weird loving friendship, Staying Alive, necessities, small talk
“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: weird loving friendship, Friends, leave behind, Life, Afterlife
“I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why.”
— John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
Tagged: weird loving friendship, look after you, Connection, Understanding, Care, World, Life
“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Tagged: weird loving friendship, puke, Together, old friends, Friends
“Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each other still.”
— Whitney Otto, How to Make an American Quilt
Tagged: weird loving friendship, Lovers, Friends, love eachother, Connection
“When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.”
— George R.R. Martin, A Game Of Thrones
Tagged: weird loving friendship, Survival, pack, Friends, Alone
“It's bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variations of the same desire to be close.”
— Rachel Cohn, Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List
Tagged: weird loving friendship, romance, Lovers, Bullshit, same love, Love, Closeness
“I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails.”
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: weird loving friendship, needed me, People, Personality, Intensity
“She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.”
— Toni Morrison, Beloved
Tagged: weird loving friendship, Mind, pieces, Fix
“It's not love or anything, but I think I like you, too.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
Tagged: weird loving friendship, Love, like, Connection, Friends