Friends are like walls. Sometimes you lean on them, and sometimes it’s good just knowing they are there. – Author Unknown

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

What do we ask of friendship except to be taken for what we pretend to be — and without having to pretend. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com