#friend

Should we still be friends when it could be more profitable if otherwise? ↗

— Toba Beta

#motive #profit #motivational

Somehow he'd become the one constant in this whole uneven chapter in her life, & the idea that could change was unsettling. ↗

— Jennifer E. Smith

#love #change

You don't know me, dude," he says, not smiling this time. Gonzo examines his cards, prepping for his next move. "People always think that they know other people, but they don't. Not really. I mean, maybe they know things about them, like they won't eat doughnuts or they like action movies or whatever. But they don't know what their friends do in their rooms alone at night or what happened to them when they were kids or if they feel ****ed up for no reason at all. ↗

— Libba Bray

#gonzo #hidden-feelings #knowing #movies

Samuel! Are you alright?" A vision of Samuel being brained by the falling bars rose up before Simon's eyes. Samuel's voice rose to a scream. "GO AWAY!" Simon looked sideways at Jace. "I think he means it." Jace shook his blond head in exasperation. "You had to make a crazy jail friend, didn't you? You couldn't just count ceiling tiles or tame a pet mouse like normal prisoners do? ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jace-and-simon #mortal-instruments #vision

A good friend will always stab you in the front. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#friends

The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill! ↗

— Wilkie Collins

#friends

The only way to have a friend is to be one. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#friend #only #way

A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away. ↗

— George Eliot

#confidences #friends #friends

A friend is someone whose face you can see in the dark. ↗

— Frances O'Roark Dowell

#real #relationships #language

A friend is someone who walks into a room when everyone else is walking out. ↗

— Gary Moore

#loyalty #dreams