15 Best Quotes That Perfectly Explain Best Friends
Our best friends mean the world to us. They are there for us during the happy times as well as the darkest of times. They’re ready to laugh at our hilarious inside jokes or listen if we need a good cry. Quite simply, they’ve seen it all. But sometimes it’s hard to find the words to express just how much we appreciate our besties. Luckily, there’s a lot of novels out there that have done the job for us. Writers have been trying to describe the essence of true friendship since the beginning of time, and, TBH, a lot of them have done a perfect job. Here are 15 quotes from literature about friendship that hit the nail on the head.
1/16On the benefit of having a friend during dark times:
“Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.” – Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You
2/16On growing apart:
“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
3/16On snowball fights (hey, we’ve all been there):
“A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.” – Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
4/16On friends as soul mates:
“She had worried, sought to protect me from danger, guided me toward the best. She had looked out for my future, assessed the worthiness of everyone to be in my life. And in that way, she had taken me as her purpose in life, the one who gave her meaning. I had a constant love all along. ” – Amy Tan, The Valley of Amazement
5/16On trusting your friends:
“Friendship – my definition – is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don't have trust, the friendship will crumble.” – Stieg Larsson, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
6/16On needing one another:
“I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
7/16On loving your friends:
“It's bullsh*t to think of friendship and romance as being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variations of the same desire to be close.” – Rachel Cohn, Naomi and Ely’s No Kiss List
8/16On finding that special friend who changes your life forever:
“I was happy before I met him. But I’m alive now, and those are not the same thing.” – Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything
9/16On being linked forever:
“Luna had decorated her bedroom ceiling with five beautifully painted faces: Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, and Neville. They were not moving as the portraits at Hogwarts moved, but there was a certain magic about them all the same. Harry thought they breathed. What appeared to be fine golden chains wove around the pictures, linking them together, but after examining them for a minute or so, Harry realized that the chains were actually one word, repeated a thousand times in golden ink: friends . . . friends . . . friends . . .” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
10/16On journeys:
“Maybe what matters is not so much the path as who walks beside you.” – Stacey Lee, Under a Painted Sky
11/16On making a new friend:
“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
12/16On understanding one another:
“Sam and Patrick looked at me. And I looked at them. And I think they knew. Not anything specific really. They just knew. And I think that's all you can ever ask from a friend.” – Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
13/16On accepting one another’s flaws:
“True friends are those who came into your life, saw the most negative part of you, but are not ready to leave you, no matter how contagious you are to them.” – Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign
14/16On having friends all around us and not even knowing it:
“Some people need a red carpet rolled out in front of them in order to walk forward into friendship. They can't see the tiny outstretched hands all around them, everywhere, like leaves on trees.” – Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You
15/16On the tough times that you survive, together:
“Remember that you and I made this journey together to a place where there was nowhere left to go.” – Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake
