“Son,
In your friendships, be positive and proactive. Be protective of friends who lift you when you fall into a pit.”
Source: Dear Son: An Imaginary Letter from a Loving Dad
“Son,
Some friendships will challenge you to be the best you can be, choose such friendships.”
Source: Dear Son: An Imaginary Letter from a Loving Dad
“Son,
Some friendships will guide you toward understanding the spirit of love and peace, those are the kind of friendships you need.”
Source: Dear Son: An Imaginary Letter from a Loving Dad
“Son,
You deserve to be valued. Do not cling, be free. Detach from friendships that make you feel as if you are nothing.”
Source: Dear Son: An Imaginary Letter from a Loving Dad
“Son,
You do not have to give up on a good friend because of new friendships. Good friends are not found in the market.”
Source: Dear Son: An Imaginary Letter from a Loving Dad
“Son,
Genuine friendships are like boats that carry honesty and tranquillity from one end to the other. Without these basics, there is no friendship, and any friendship that lacks these traits is not real.”
Source: Dear Son: An Imaginary Letter from a Loving Dad
“Son,
Some friendships will guide you toward understanding the spirit of love and peace. Those are the kinds of friendships you need.”
Source: Dear Son: An Imaginary Letter from a Loving Dad
“Good-bye, Maysilee Donner, who I loathed, then grudgingly respected, then loved. Not as a sweetheart or even a friend. A sister, I’d said. But what is that exactly? I think about our journey — everything from sniping with her in those early days after the reaping to battling those pink birds. I guess that’s my answer. A sister is someone you fight with and fight for. Tooth and nail.”
Source: Sunrise on the Reaping
“if, of three friends (A, B, and C), A should die, then B loses not only A but “A’s part in C,” while C loses not only A but “A’s part in B.” In each of my friends there is something that only some other friend can fully bring out. By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity; I want other lights than my own to show all his facets. Now that Charles is dead, I shall never again see Ronald’s reaction to a specifically Caroline joke. Far from having more of Ronald, having him “to myself” now that Charles is away, I have less of Ronald. Hence true Friendship is the least jealous of loves. Two friends delight to be joined by a third, and three by a fourth, if only the newcomer is qualified to become a real friend.”
Source: The Four Loves
“They're not lonely. There's two of them. When a wolf is howling at the moon, it's not actually because it's lonely. It's sort of a location technique, for when members of the pack get separated and they need to find one another. The first one saying, I'm here! I'm here! And then the other one says, Me too! Me too!”
Source: Promise Me Sunshine