“The bittersweet about truth is that nothing could be more hurtful, yet nothing could be more helpful.”

“,the rest of the girls pretended not to notice. That’s just what best friends do.”

“An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.”

“God is the reason I’m surviving, but he’s sure used you in my life wonderfully. I love you.”

“If you wish to befriend someone, look for a person who loves first God then themselves. If they love God, they will be able to love their neighbor, too.”

“A foe to God was never true friend to man”

“ثمة عباراتٌ لا معنى لها تملك مثل ذلك السحر، تُظهِر قدرا من الرهافة، بحيث تقول على الفور، “هذا الشخص، إنه يخصّني”، ليس بمعنى الملكية، بل أنه من نوعي، وأتمنى أن أستطيع أن أكون من نوعه. من تلك النقطة، تولد الصداقة، يمكن للصداقة أن تولد. هناك، إذن، مسألة إدراك[حسّي]، إدراك شيءٍ يناسبك أو يعلّمك شيئا، يُفتِّحُك، يكشف شيئا لك”

“I have no duty to be anyone’s Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of necessity. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”

“No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.”

“Friendships will never be darkened by the setting sun.”

“It must not be forgotten that reason too needs to be sustained in all its searching by trusting dialogue and sincere friendship. A climate of suspicion and distrust, which can beset speculative research, ignores the teaching of the ancient philosophers who proposed friendship as one of the most appropriate contexts for sound philosophical enquiry.”

“But you can’t stay with people because of guilt. Or because they can drive a speedboat.”

“Tyrion let the eunuch help him mount. “Lord Varys,” he said from the saddle, “sometimes I feel as though you are the best friend I have in King’s Landing and sometimes I feel you are my worst enemy.” “How odd. I think quite the same of you.”