If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment, but it is transient. It is a little parenthesis in eternity. If we share with caring, lightheartedness and love, we will create abundance and joy for each other. And then this moment will have been worthwhile.

He'd fight all her dragons, every last one of them, and she didn't even have to ask.

Healthy couples can weather brutal storms and come out stronger on the other side. This is how relationships grow and deepen. 

His locked on hers, steady and intense. 'That was your last first kiss, Josephine Duprey,' he said softly.

The lesson I was learning involved the idea that I could feel compassion for people without acting on it.

The thing I know for sure is that at the end of my life, what I'm going to remember is the love I felt for my family and my friends, and whatever good I did for other people.

Our friends should be companions who inspire us, who help us rise to our best.

The people closest to you have the most to lose by losing you so they are the most resistant to you changing.

I want to see friends more and travel more.

Your friend mourns your losses with you, because they experience them too. The truth is, no matter how lonely you might feel, you're never going through anything alone.

It formed a sweet picture.  The long light hair curled slightly on the temples; the eyes were large and serious; the figure almost too graceful.  I did not marvel how Catherine Earnshaw could forget her first friend for such an individual.