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  • #31
    Alexander McCall Smith
    “You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel.”
    Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

  • #32
    Elie Wiesel
    “Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”
    Elie Wiesel

  • #33
    P.C. Cast
    “If you have good friends, no matter how much life is sucking , they can make you laugh.”
    P.C. Cast Kristin Cast

  • #34
    Ally Condie
    “Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that.”
    Ally Condie, Matched

  • #35
    Marilyn Monroe
    “Friendship is the bestiest thing that comes to life . Friends will always be there for you don't worry about the fakes worry about the people who had your back from the start and never treated you wrong always remember they are your real friends don't never take them as granted because one day your going to lose a good friend by the way your action's are when you see a good friend stick to that person .”
    marilyn monroe

  • #36
    Fred Rogers
    “When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for those things without which humankind cannot survive. Love that conquers hate, peace that rises triumphant over war, and justice that proves more powerful than greed.”
    Fred Rogers

  • #37
    Oscar Wilde
    “Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #38
    Aristotle
    “Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”
    Aristotle

  • #39
    Whitney Otto
    “Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each other still.”
    Whitney Otto, How to Make an American Quilt

  • #40
    Gloria Naylor
    “Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.”
    Gloria Naylor

  • #41
    Marilyn Monroe
    “When you have a good friend that really cares for you and tries to stick in there with you, you treat them like nothing. Learn to be a good friend because one day you're gonna look up and say I lost a good friend. Learn how to be respectful to your friends, don't just start arguments with them and don't tell them the reason, always remember your friends will be there quicker than your family. Learn to remember you got great friends, don't forget that and they will always care for you no matter what. Always remember to smile and look up at what you got in life.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #42
    Sylvia Plath
    “There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

  • #43
    Alice Walker
    “No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
    Alice Walker

  • #44
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #45
    Diane Von Furstenberg
    “When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.”
    Diane Von Furstenberg

  • #46
    Sarah Dessen
    “Friends are honest with each other. Even if the truth hurts.
    -Maggie”
    Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride

  • #47
    Henry David Thoreau
    “Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.”
    Henry David Thoreau

  • #48
    Jim  Butcher
    “I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching--they are your family.”
    Jim Butcher, Proven Guilty

  • #49
    C.S. Lewis
    “I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #50
    Natsuki Takaya
    “Because even the smallest of words can be the ones to hurt you, or save you.”
    Natsuki Takaya

  • #51
    Becca Fitzpatrick
    “Any happiness, no matter how brief, seemed better than the long, simmering torture of waking up day after day, knowing I could never have him.”
    Becca Fitzpatrick, Crescendo

  • #52
    Erma Bombeck
    “There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.”
    Erma Bombeck

  • #53
    Jennifer Salaiz
    “Was I bitter? Absolutely. Hurt? You bet your sweet ass I was hurt. Who doesn't feel a part of their heart break at rejection. You ask yourself every question you can think of, what, why, how come, and then your sadness turns to anger. That's my favorite part. It drives me, feeds me, and makes one hell of a story.”
    Jennifer Salaiz

  • #54
    Jacqueline Carey
    “Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best?”
    Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen

  • #55
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “There are only so many times that you can utter ‘It does not hurt’ before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt. You become enlightened of the feeling of feeling hurt, which is worse, I am certain, than the existent hurt.”
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    tags: hurt

  • #56
    “But even when I stop crying, even when we fall asleep and I'm nestled in his arms, this will leave another scar. No one will see it. No one will know. But it will be there. And eventually all of the scars will have scars, and that's all I'll be--one big scar of a love gone wrong.”
    Amanda Grace, But I Love Him

  • #57
    Mario Puzo
    “Do you believe a man can truly love a woman and constantly betray her? Never mind physically but betray her in his mind, in the very "poetry of his soul". Well, it's not easy but men do it all the time.”
    Mario Puzo, Fools Die

  • #58
    Marian Keyes
    “why can't we love the right people? what is so wrong with us that we rush into situations to which we are manifestly unsuited, which will hurt us and others? why are we given emotions which we cannot control and which move in exact contradiction to what we really want? we are walking conflicts, internal battles on legs.”
    Marian Keyes, The Other Side of the Story

  • #59
    Isobelle Carmody
    “The deepest wounds aren't the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people.”
    Isobelle Carmody, Alyzon Whitestarr

  • #60
    Marcia Lynn McClure
    “It is a severe cruelty inflicted upon women...that we should be the ones who so desperately need love...affection...acceptance.And yet, we suffer...many of us, for lack of it throughout our entire lives."-Shackles of Honor”
    Marcia Lynn McClure



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