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“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”

“Once she was gone, I knelt next to Annabeth and felt her forehead. She was still burning up. "You're cute when you're worried," she muttered. "Your eyebrows get all scrunched together." "You are not going to die while I owe you a favor," I said. "Why did you take that knife?" "You would've done the same for me." It was true. I guess we both knew it. Still, I felt like somebody was poking my heart with a cold metal rod.”

“If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be almost all friendships would be dissolved; the second effect, however, might be excellent, for a world without any friends would be felt to be intolerable, and we should learn to like each other without needing a veil of illusion to conceal from ourselves that we did not think each other absolutely perfect.”

“A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.”

“You take this cold, remarkable, difficult, dangerous, borderline psychopath man, and you wonder what might have happened to him had he not met his best friend, a friend that no one would have put him with, this solid, dependable, brave, big-hearted war hero. I think people fall in love, not with Sherlock Holmes or Dr. Watson, but with their friendship. I think it is the most famous friendship in fiction, without a doubt.”

“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.”

“Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.”

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

“Creating a close connection to those you do business with has its many risks, rewards and consequences. There are few things in business I have encountered that are more difficult than firing someone, particularly if that someone has always been, or has become a friend. On the flip side, I have been rewarded with many friends.”

“What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.”

“Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

“A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.”

“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.”

“In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.”

“The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?”

“You Too? I thought I was the only one.”

“Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.”

“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.”

“The best time to make friends is before you need them.”

“A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success.”

“Oooh I get by with a little help from my friends.”