Friendship is a contract between two hearts. With hearts united, women can laugh and cry, live and die together.
– from Lady Tan’s Circle of Women book by Lisa See
Tag: Quotes on Friendship
Friendship, companionship: it so often defied …
Friendship, companionship: it so often defied logic, so often eluded the deserving, so often settled itself on the odd, the bad, the peculiar, the damaged.
– from A Little Life book by Hanya Yanagihara
In the various phases of my …
In the various phases of my life – […] – I became friends with some extraordinary people. In each of those phases, I became particularly close to a small circle of individuals, and I simply assumed that I would remain close with them forever. Because we were hanging out then, my thinking went, we’d hang out forever. But friendships, I’ve learned, aren’t like that. Things change; people change. Friends mature and move and get married and have children […]. Over time, if you’re lucky, a few – or maybe just a couple – remain from each of the various phases of your life. I’ve been fortunate; I have friends who date back to high school, and yet, I sometimes find myself wondering why some people remain in your life while others drift away. I don’t have the answer to that, other than to observe that friendship has to flow both ways. Both of you have to be willing to invest in the friendship in order to maintain it.
– from The Return book by Nicholas Sparks