“But, I believe," I continue, "I know what true love is - or what it should be."
"What should it be?" Tristan asks, his voice soft now.
"It should be a friendship and truly knowing who a person is, knowing his flaws and hopes and strengths and fears, knowing all of it. And admiring and caring for - loving the person because of those things.”
Source: Song of the Sparrow
“la amistad es la raíz del amor puro. el amor puro es la fuente de la felicidad.”
“A true best friend loves you even when it seems like you've gone off the deep end.”
Source: The Status of All Things
“Love should not be polluted with friendship.”
Source: Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country
“Friends you will have need of, for in you two worlds meet. There is no one on both sides with you, so you must learn to take your own counsel; and not to fear what is strange, if you know it also to be true.”
Source: The Blue Sword
“The whole point of being a good friend is being in the darkness. I’ll be your light, until you can be it yourself again.”
Source: Inferno
“The older I get, the more I find that you can only live with those who free you, who love you with an affection that is as light to bear as it is strong to feel.
Today's life is too hard, too bitter, too anemic, for us to
undergo new bondages, from whom we love (...]. This is how I am your friend, I love your happiness, your freedom, Your adventure in one word, and I would like to be for you the companion we are sure of, always.”
Source: Correspondance (1945-1959)
“Hello, companion," said Magnus.
The monkey made a terrible sound, half snarl and half hiss.
"I begin to rather doubt the beauty of our friendship," said Magnus.”
Source: The Bane Chronicles
“Bein friends is like being soldiers in the army. You live together, you fight together; you die together.”
Source: Same Kind of Different As Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together
“My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges.”