“He thought about this for a second. “True. But if you never really make friends, you probably don’t have anyone to be your 2 a.m. Which would kind of suck. I just looked at him as he stirred his soup, carrots spinning in the liquid. “Your what?” “Two a.m.” He swallowed, then said, “You know. The person you can call at two a.m. and, no matter what, you can count on them. Even if they’re asleep or it’s cold or you need to be bailed out of jail…they’ll come for you. It’s, like, the highest level of friendship.”

“Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.”

“But what are loyalty and caring really worth?””To me? Everything.”

“I need to figure out the secret. I need to work out how to keep things flying back to me instead of always flying away.”

“A woman can become a man’s friend only in the following stages – first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.”

“It’s not your job to like me – it’s mine”

“I hope we’ll be friends forever, together we’ll always be. I don’t think you understand just how much you mean to me. And one day when we part our ways, we’ll think back to the past and think about how happy we are ’cause our friendship will always last.”

“Because introverts are typically good listeners and, at least, have the appearance of calmness, we are attractive to emotionally needy people. Introverts, gratified that other people are initiating with them, can easily get caught in these exhausting and unsatisfying relationships.”

“Never worry alone. When anxiety grabs my mind, it is self-perpetuating. Worrisome thoughts reproduce faster than rabbits, so one of the most powerful ways to stop the spiral of worry is simply to disclose my worry to a friend… The simple act of reassurance from another human being [becomes] a tool of the Spirit to cast out fear — because peace and fear are both contagious.”

“They say that “A friend in need is a friend indeed” but what if you don’t find one when you need one.”

“Why is it,” he said, one time, at the subway entrance, “I feel I’ve known you so many years?””Because I like you,” she said, “and I don’t want anything from you.”

“Don’t hang out with people who are:UngratefulUnhelpfulUnrulyUnkindlyUnlovingUnambitiousUnmotivatedor make you feel…Uncomfortable”

“Les faux savants sont comme tes amis qui chantent avec les chansons anglaises ; de loin, tu penses qu’ils connaissent les paroles par cœur, mais une fois la chanson s’arrête, tu te rends compte qu’ils ne savent rien!”