All Quotes By Tag: Friendship

“Three belongings impoverish: Love, hope and fake friendships.”

“He met Ray’s eyes. He knew it was hard to believe but Sergi did believe it. Believe in him. He knew how strong Ray was, and if he’d ever doubted it, his resilience in the face of the shitty cards he’d been dealt would have been more than enough. He didn’t know how to say it so Ray would believe him, though.”I spent a lot of time fighting with you,” he said in the end. “I figure I know what you’re made of by now.”He couldn’t tell if Ray believed him, but sometimes all you could do was offer your faith. Again and again, a prayer and an offering, and hope someone was listening.”

“Every men wanted to be his friend and every woman wanted to be in his bed”

“If a man truly loves, he gives no heed to what others may think. His heart has no room for that, for it is filled to the brim with the unutterable truth of his feelings.”

“I better go,” Carter squeezed me once more and stood, grabbing his wallet from the coffee table. “I need to hit up the lottery if I want to get you out of this mess. Will you let me buy a monkey if we win, though?””Only if you buy me an island off the coast of Fiji.””You crazy-ass woman. A monkey is so much cooler than an island.””How about a monkey IN Fiji?””Now there’s a woman after my own heart,” Carter slapped his hand to his chest, sighing dramatically. “I’ll let you know if we win.” He started for the door.”Uh huh.””You’ll know if we do. I’ll be the one streaking on Pike Street.”

“Well, in the meantime, Carter and I have been discussing the matter of Ryan.” This time it wasn’t the clang of a pan I heard, but instead a messy smack–the contact of Carter’s backhand with Dean’s head, I presumed. “Just hear me out. You have options. I have an Italian uncle. He’ll make sure Ryan is sleeping with the fishes by next week.””Dean!” Unable to repress my amusement, my eyes flew wide and my grin grew.”Either that, or we can go all Sweeney Todd on him and–“”Oh, will you stop?” My laughter was crippling. “There will be no calls to your uncle and no trip to the barber shop–please, leave Sweeney Todd out of it.”

“All the friends in the world are in the fountain of a pen.”

“New hair, new clothes-the classic relationship break-up makeover,” Jake said.Delaney stared at him for a beat. In a way, he was right. She was breaking up with Sam. He just didn’t know it.”

“It takes lives to save lives.”

“I LOVE YOU FROM THE WAIST DOWN, I DON’T DEAL IN DAMAGED GOODS.”

“He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of as funny and to be resented.”

“If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down.”

“Smile to begin a friendshipHug and Handclasp to lift a soulYour hope can raise up their spiritsOne touch can show that you care”

“Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still. For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is omnipresent. In this divine glass, they see face to face; and their converse is free, as well as pure. This is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal.”

“I did not become famous but I got near enough to smell the stench of success. It smelt like burnt cloth and rancid gardenias, and I realized that the truly awful thing about success is that it’s held up all those years as the thing that would make everything all right. And the only thing that makes things even slightly bearable is a friend who knows what you’re talking about.”