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“I vow to always let you grow. I'll never tell you that I know who you are just because we've known each other since we were kids. I know you're going through a period of big change and I'll only every encourage that.”

Love Growth Friendship Kindness Warmth Food For The Soul

Book:Everything I Know About Love

Source: Everything I Know About Love

“Maybe friendship is being the guardian of another person's hope. Leave it with me and I'll look after it for a while , if it feels too heavy for now.”

Hope Friendship

Book:Ghosts

Source: Ghosts

“She knows where to find everything in me and I know where all her stuff is too. She is, in short, my best friend.”

Love Friendship Bestfriend

Book:Everything I Know About Love

Source: Everything I Know About Love

“Nearly everything I know about love, I've learnt from my long-term friendships with women.”

Love Women Friendship

Book:Everything I Know About Love

Source: Everything I Know About Love

“You’re too hard on yourself,’she said. ‘You can do long-term love. You’ve done it better than anyone I know.’ ‘How? My longest relationship was two years and that was over when I was twenty-four.’ ‘I’m talking about you and me, ’she said”

Love Friendship

Book:Everything I Know about Love: A Memoir

Source: Everything I Know about Love: A Memoir

“Resetting the factory settings of a friendship is such a difficult thing to do.”

Friendship

Book:Ghosts

Source: Ghosts

“So you thought you'd go to a party where you could talk about babies and weddings and houses all night. Because not everyone wants to talk about babies and weddings and houses at a book launch.”

Friendship Single Women

Book:Ghosts

Source: Ghosts

“...anything I do is trivial and meaningless because I'm not in a relationship and I don't have children.”

Friendship Feminism Single Women

Book:Ghosts

Source: Ghosts

“How? My longest relationship was two years and that was over when I was twenty-four.' // 'I'm talking about you and me,' she said”

Friendship

Book:Everything I Know About Love

Source: Everything I Know About Love

“She loves order; I'm inclined towards mess. She loves rules; I hate rules...She is very present and focused on tasks at hand; I am always half in life, half in a fantastical version of it in my head. But, somehow, we work.”

Friendship

Book:Everything I Know About Love

Source: Everything I Know About Love

“A universal, silent Morse code for Im here, I love you. At that moment I realized that everything had changed: we had transitioned. We had chosen each other. We were family.”

Friendship

Book:Everything I Know About Love

Source: Everything I Know About Love

“We know the names of all our grandparents and our childhood toys and we know the exact words that, when put in a certain order, will makes each other laugh or cry or shout. There isn’t a pebble on the beach of my history that she has left unturned. She knows where to find everything in me and I know where all her stuff is too. She is, in short, my best friend.”

Friendship Sentimental

Book:Everything I Know About Love

Source: Everything I Know About Love

“Watching a best friend become a parent is a magical thing. It can open up a part of their personality that you've never seen before and it can also open a new chapter of your friendship.”

Friendship

Book:Dear Dolly

Source: Dear Dolly

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