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Whether we need an adventure or just a night in, our close friends are the ones we reach out to. The importance of having a reliable friend cannot be overstated, and many well-known authors have emphasized this special bond in their works. We hope this encourages you to cherish friendship.

1. “It’s not enough to be friendly. You have to be a friend.” -R.J. Palacio, Wonder

2. “A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.” ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

4. “You have been my friend,’ replied Charlotte. ‘That in itself is a tremendous thing.” -E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

5. “Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It’s splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.” –L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

6. “There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves. It is not my nature.”

7. “There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.” -P.G. Wodehouse, from “Strychnine in the Soup” in Mulliner Nights

8. “I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.”― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

9. “It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”-J.K Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

10. “We clung to books and to our friends; they reminded us that we had another part to us.” —Annie Barrows, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

11. “Why wasn’t friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn’t it even better? It was two people who remained together, day after day, bound not by sex or physical attraction or money or children or property, but only by the shared agreement to keep going, the mutual dedication to a union that could never be codified.” -Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

12. “She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.” ― Toni Morrison, Beloved

13. “You have been my friend,’ replied Charlotte. ‘That in itself is a tremendous thing.” -E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

14. “Friendship…is born at the moment when one man says to another ‘What! You too? I thought that no one but myself…” –C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

15. “Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.” ― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

16. “We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.” –Maya Angelou, I Shall Not Be Moved

17. “A good friend is a connection to life-a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.” -Lois Wyse, Women Make the Best Friends: A Celebration

18. “She thought of how precious it was to be able to know another person over many years. There was incomparable richness in it.” -Alice Walker, The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart

19. “They’re a rotten crowd’, I shouted across the lawn. ‘You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

20. “We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.” -Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

21. “The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.” -Barbara Kingsolver, from “Stone Soup” in High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never

22. “Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.” -Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

23. “Friendship- my definition- is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don’t have trust, the friendship will crumble.”― Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

24. “She recognized that that is how friendships begin: one person reveals a moment of strangeness, and the other person decides just to listen and not exploit it.” -Meg Wolitzer, The Interestings

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25. “Two a.m.’ He swallowed, then said, ‘You know. The person you can call at two a.m. and, no matter what, you can count on them. Even if they’re asleep or it’s cold or you need to be bailed out of jail … they’ll come for you. It’s like, the highest level of friendship.’” –Sarah Dessen, What Happened to Goodbye

“She thought of how precious it was to be able to know another person over many years. There was incomparable richness in it.” -Alice Walker, The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart

Friendship is a strong bond that shouldn’t be broken or built n distrust. We hope these quotes help you amend every broken friendship that was genuine.

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CSN Team.