Friendship Quote by Katherine Heiny

“My entire notion of friendship altered when I depended on someone for more than just the pleasant passing of time.”

— Courtney Milan

“...friends were more important than lovers - not least for the fact that friendships generally lasted longer than relationships.”

— John Irving

“We became friends, I suppose, because we lived close to each other and it suited us and because when you are young friendships go…

— Aminatta Forna

“We were friends who realized they didn’t want to be without each other. We were the other’s opposite in many ways but also so…

— Kiera Cass

“I was beginning to see how central friendship, and relationship more generally, was in our experience of joy.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

“Sometimes I think people were meant to be strangers. Not to get to know one another, not to get close enough to damage the…

— Rod McKuen

“I had a vague memory of the intensity of teenage female relationships; more of a passion than a normal friendship.”

— Jojo Moyes

“…it was but one of the things that made friendship with me an ambivalent enterprise.”

— Pat Conroy

“he had been afraid of finding things quite different, and now it pained him to find them so unchanged. the prospect of meeting people,…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Friendships were like marriages in that way. Routines and patterns were poured early and hardened like cement.”

— Kristin Hannah

“It was two people who remained together, day after day, bound not by sex or physical attraction or money or children or property, but…

— Hanya Yanagihara

“My friendships, and I use that term loosely, were fleeting and fragile and often painful, with people who generally wanted something from me and…

— Roxane Gay