“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

“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

“It is love and friendship, the sanctity and celebration of our relationships, that
not only support a good life, but create one. Through friendships, we spark and
inspire one another’s ambitions.” —Wallace Stegner, Crossing to Safety

“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

“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

“Well, you can’t make old friends.” —Zadie Smith, Swing Time

“It’s not enough to be friendly. You have to be a friend.” —R.J.

Palacio, Wonder

“‘You have been my friend,’ replied Charlotte. ‘That in itself is a tremendous

thing.’” —E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web
“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

“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

“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

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

“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

“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