No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship. – Francis Marion Crawford

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. – Aristotle

Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places. – Charles de Lint