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“The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.”

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“Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.”

Book:The Godfather

Source: The Godfather

“Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.”

Author:Socrates

“Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.”

Author:Henry David Thoreau

“Luna had decorated her bedroom ceiling with five beautifully painted faces: Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, and Neville. They were not moving as the portraits at Hogwarts moved, but there was a certain magic about them all the same: Harry thought they breathed. What appeared to be fine golden chains wove around the pictures, linking them together, but after examining them for a minute or so, Harry realized that the chains were actually one word, repeated a thousand times in golden ink: friends . . . friends . . . friends . . .”

Book:Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other.”

Friendship Solitude Bonds

Book:Letters to a Young Poet

Source: Letters to a Young Poet

“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.”

Friendship Trust Friends

Book:Essays, First Series

Source: Essays, First Series

“We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.”

Friendship Sea Connection

Author:William James

“Give your friendships the magic you would give a romance. Because they're just as important. Actually, for us, they're way more important.”

Friendship Lgbt Asexual Aromantic

Book:Loveless

Source: Loveless

“Bryce's face crumpled as she lurched to her feet, sprinting to the Gate. She didn't care how it was possible as Danika said again, "Light it up" Then Bryce was laughing and sobbing as she screamed, "LIGHT IT UP, DANIKA! LIGHT IT UP, LIGHT IT UP, LIGHT IT UP!" Bryce slammed her palm onto the bronze disk of the Gate. And soul to soul with the friend whom she had not forgotten, the friend who had not forgotten her, even in death, Bryce made the Drop.”

Friendship Bryce Quinlan Danika Fendyr Light It Up

Book:House of Earth and Blood

Source: House of Earth and Blood

“Friendships take minutes to make, moments to break, years to repair.”

Book:Golden Son

Source: Golden Son