The capacity for friendship is God’s way of apologizing for our families.
When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.
My theme is, ‘The spirit of friendship is the balance of life.’ Not money. Not the World Series. It’s friendship. The relationships I have with people, that’s enough to keep me happy.
It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
There has to be chemistry in a duet, but if you go beyond the point of friendship and attraction, you lose something.
There’s such a connection between Vietnam and America, but it should be one of friendship. Not bitterness. Not enemies.
Everybody understands friendship, and friendship is different than love – it’s a different kind of love. Friendship has more freedom, more latitude. You don’t expect your friend to be as you think your friend should be; you expect your friend just to love you as a friend.
I wanted to write a book about female friendship, because it’s a constant that goes right through to the end of our days. Over time, romantic love changes and often becomes something different, but friendship stays pretty much the same.
Have you ever thought how humiliating and distressing it was to be placed upon a sphere? For friendship it is a boon never to be able to be further apart than the antipodes. But suppose that you are leaving together to go on and on; it is impossible. To go beyond a certain point is to return to where you began.
I really enjoy writing about female friendship. It’s an endlessly interesting dynamic for me.
Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
My writing partner, Nicki, and I became obsessed with a monologist who performs unscripted shows equipped with nothing more than scribbled bullet points and a glass of water. We wrote him a fan letter and found ourselves sharing lunch and eventually a friendship.
I think for a lot of people, friendship is a relationship that gets devalued once they move on to what people consider to be more important relationships: once you find a partner or when you have kids.
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
Jo and I have a marriage based on friendship, which means hopefully you can survive. I’m so glad we have.
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