It’s important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to the friendship that we are not. – Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

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

Rock n roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family, friendship and community. – Steven Van Zandt

The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them. – Hector Hugh Munro