We played vintage board games, watched movies, and listened to music. We talked for hours. Long, rambling conversations about everything under the sun. Spending time with her was intoxicating. We seemed to have everything in common. We shared the same interests. We were driven by the same goal. She got all of my jokes. She made me laugh. She made me think. She changed the way I saw the world. I'd never had such a powerful, immediate connection with another human being before.

We talked for hours. Long, rambling conversations about everything under the sun. Spending time with her was intoxicating. We seemed to have everything in common. We shared the same interests. We were driven by the same goal. She got all of my jokes. She made me laugh. She made me think. She changed the way I saw the world. I'd never had such a powerful, immediate connection with another human being before.

Ray seemed to subsist primarily on a diet of high-fructose junk food and old videogames. It was hard not to love the guy. Back

Han will have that shield down,' Ãƒ¢Ã¢'¬Ã‚ Aech quoted. " Ãƒ¢Ã¢'¬Ã‹œWe've got to give him more time!' 

The more isolated and disconnected we are, the more shattered and distorted our self-identity. We are not healthy when we are alone. We find ourselves when we connect to others. Without community we don't know who we are... When we live outside of healthy community, we not only lose others. We lose ourselves...Who we understand ourselves to be is dramatically affected for better or worse by those we hold closest to us.

Like the sacramental use of water and bread and wine, friendship takes what's common in human experience and turns it into something holy.

It is a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be loved by many friends.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

It is a good thing to be rich, and it is a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be loved of many friends.

It is a good thing to be rich and strong, but it is a better thing to be loved.

I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief

'Friends' will always remain friends.