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“A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.”

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“Once upon a time they was two girls," I say. "one girl had black skin, one girl had white." Mae Mobley look up at me. She listening. "Little colored girl say to little white girl, 'How come your skin be so pale?' White girl say, 'I don't know. How come your skin be so black? What you think that mean?' "But neither one a them little girls knew. So little white girl say, 'Well, let's see. You got hair, I got hair.'"I gives Mae Mobley a little tousle on her head. "Little colored girl say 'I got a nose, you got a nose.'"I gives her little snout a tweak. She got to reach up and do the same to me. "Little white girl say, 'I got toes, you got toes.' And I do the little thing with her toes, but she can't get to mine cause I got my white work shoes on. "'So we's the same. Just a different color', say that little colored girl. The little white girl she agreed and they was friends. The End." Baby Girl just look at me. Law, that was a sorry story if I ever heard one. Wasn't even no plot to it. But Mae Mobley, she smile and say, "Tell it again.”

Friendship Race Racism Equality

Book:The Help

Source: The Help

“Real friends are the ones you can count on no matter what. The ones who go into the forest to find you and bring you home. And real friends never have to tell you that they’re your friends.”

Friendship Friends

Book:Since You've Been Gone

Source: Since You've Been Gone

“Jem gave her a wistful look. “Must you go? I was rather hoping that you’d stay and be a ministering angel, but if you must go, you must.” “I’ll stay,” Will said a bit crossly, and threw himself down in the armchair Tessa had just vacated. “I can minister angelically.” “None too convincingly. And you’re not as pretty to look at as Tessa is,” Jem said, closing his eyes as he leaned back against the pillow. “How rude. Many who have gazed upon me have compared it to gazing at the radiance of the sun.” Jem still had his eyes closed. “If they mean that it gives you a headache, they aren’t wrong.”

Funny Friendship Will Herondale Jem Carstairs

Book:Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.”

Friendship Enemies Disagreeable

Author:Oliver Wendall Holmes

“And he looked lonely enough that she said, 'If you like, you could be my friend'.”

Kids Friendship Loneliness Aelin Galathynius Dorian Havilliard Liitle Dorian Little Aelin

Book:Heir of Fire

Source: Heir of Fire

“Basically, everyone thinks--knows--how sweet I am. Emma, you threw my sister through hurricane-proof glass.”

Humor Mermaid Poseidon

Book:Of Poseidon

Source: Of Poseidon

“Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.”

Friendship Friends

Book:The Nicomachean ethics

Source: The Nicomachean ethics

“For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill? Seek him always with hours to live. For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness. And in th sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”

Book:The Prophet

Source: The Prophet

“Everyone has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend.”

Friendship Gift

Author:Marian Anderson

“He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.”

Author:Ali Bin Abi Thalib