“Sometimes a woman offers a man friendship out of pity, as a consolation, or as a consolation prize, for his failure to make her want him, or at least agree to be in a relationship with him.”
Source: On Friendship: A Satirical Essay
“Many a man once started a friendship with a woman just to get into her life, with the sole intention of making her his girlfriend as soon as he could.”
Source: On Friendship: A Satirical Essay
“You can be a friend to someone who is to you not a friend.”
Source: On Friendship: A Satirical Essay
“A friend is way less likely than a boyfriend or girlfriend to make us pretend to be someone we are not; or that our family is a good family, or way better, or way less crazy or dysfunctional than it actually is.”
Source: On Friendship: A Satirical Essay
“If you were born alone to die alone - socializing is not a must - when you haven't built a society within yourself.”
“Poe hesitated before he asked, "So the two of you aren't..."
Finn looked puzzled at first, but then his expression shifted to amusement. "No, nothing like that. Just friends."
"And Rose?"
"Oh." Finn shook his head no. "We talked about it, and Crait was... a moment. But that's it. Friends there, too."
Poe laughed. "I can't keep up with your 'just friends,' man.”
Source: Resistance Reborn
“Judy Blume: Some books you never forget. Some characters become your friends for life.”
Source: Everything I Need to Know I Learned from a Children's Book: Life Lessons from Notable People from All Walks of Life
“Our friends are often secretly made happy, or less unhappy, by their finding out about our problems, because that reminds them that they are not the only ones who have problems; that some people’s problems are way bigger than theirs; or that some people, unlike them, have real problems.”
Source: On Friendship: A Satirical Essay
“Some confidants have wings and a beak, or four legs and a tail.”
Source: On Friendship: A Satirical Essay
“It is not easy to keep a friend convinced that you still deserve to be kept as a friend, especially if you hate lying.”
Source: On Friendship: A Satirical Essay