If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody come sit next to me.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
"Think about how much better this world would be if people would just smile at each other more often...You don't have to talk; you don't have to agree on anything; all you have to do is smile! Smiling breaks barriers; it eases tension, and it's the first step to making a new friend."
Tom Giaquinto
"Infatuation burns itself out,' she says. 'Friendship mixed with old chemistry--that can last a lifetime."
Tess Callahan
Inspiration
[On one of his comrades depicted in the book:]'Sasha was my friend … Like me, he was 19. But he didn't come home. He was killed 12 hours after this photo was taken.
Vladislav Tamarov
Inspiration
The person you have known a long tme is embedded in you like a jewel. The person you have just met casts out a few glistening beams & you are fascinated to see more of them. How many more are there? With someone you've barely met the curiosity is intoxicating.
Naomi Shihab Nye
Inspiration
Whereas fanatic is usually a pejorative word, a Fan is someone who has roots somewhere.
Simon Kuper
"I was drawn to his aloofness, the way cats gravitate toward people who’d rather avoid them."
Rachel Hartman
Inspiration
Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington
Inspiration
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship.
Author
"I have to believe it’s right to be a warm voice, a companion if I can be, as soon as ever I find a friend."
Betsy Cornwell
"Choose well the people around you, friends and everyone else around you. They can teach you lesson, some people give it like this other give it by the hard way."
Anonymous
"Somehow, we were passing the boundaries of language and finding clarity in shared thought, even if we were just talking about beer!"
Gerry Abbey
"I asked if you was pleased.’‘Course I’m pleased! You think I’d be mad if I wasn’t pleased?’‘You don’t make a lick of sense,’ he says, but he is smiling now and he takes a step closer to me."
Erin Lindsay McCabe
"People don't always want to be with people. It gets tiring."
Emma Donoghue
Inspiration
I play- it's kind of like a slice-of-life, LA women in their forties, playing forty kind of what's their friendship like, and what's their life like and so I just play one of the four friends.
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