Be Friends Quotes

Now I wonder all the time how you go back after something like that. Whether we can ever be friends again, or if what we had is broken into pieces. Not because of her, but because of me.
- Cassandra Clare

You know," Gabriel said, "there was once a time I thought we could be friends, Will."
"There was a time I thought I was a ferret," Will said, "but that turned out to be the opium haze.
- Cassandra Clare

To be friends is a beautiful thing, Tessa, and I do not scorn it, but I have hoped for a long time now that we might be more than friends.
- Cassandra Clare

You know," Gabriel said, "there was a time I thought we could be friends, Will."
"There was a time I thought I was a ferret," Will said, "but that turned out to be the opium haze. Did you know it had that effect? Because I didn't.
- Cassandra Clare

She never thought she was good at making friends. But maybe she was just trying to be friends with the wrong people.
- Sarah Addison Allen

We swore sacred oaths to be strong and to save the planet and to be friends forever.
- Laurie Halse Anderson

Elvis and I continued to be friends, and I saw him once or twice a year. But he was a troubled person.
- Ursula Andress

You can't be friends with someone who's in love with you if you don't love that person back the same way...
- Meg Cabot

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle

And this is why you don't want me to be friends with Dee, because you were afraid that I'd find out the truth?"
"That, and you're a human. Humans are weak. They bring us nothing but trouble."
My eyes narrowed. "We aren't weak. And you're on our planet. How about a little respect, buddy."
Amusement flickered in his emerald eyes. "Point taken.
- Jennifer L Armentrout

Okay. He had a point but it wasn't like I could tell him anything. I
could see me now: Guess what? You ever watch Clash of the Titans or
read any Greek fables? Well those gods are real and yeah, I'm sort of
a descendant of them. Kind of like the stepchild no one wants to claim.
Oh, and I hadn't even been around mortals until three years ago. Can
we still be friends?
- Jennifer L Armentrout

Perhaps,' she said, leaning forward a little, 'you will tell me your name. If we are to be friends' - she smiled her grave smile - 'as I hope we are, we had better begin at the beginning.
- Elizabeth Von Arnim

Politics is an ongoing civil war designed to pit one against the other that would normally be friends
- Johnny Flora

You and I will always be friends."
"Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that.
- Oscar Wilde

We can be friends. We can be anything we want to be.
- Muriel Barbery

Are you always this random? (Jericho)
Mostly. It really irritates Noir. Which is just an added bonus for me. At least so long as I can outrun him. (Asmodeus)
Add me to that list of people you annoy. (Jericho)
Oh. You're not going to singe my testicles over it, are you?! (Asmodeus)
No plans to. (Jericho)
Good. We can be friends, then. (Asmodeus)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

People wanted to be friends with me for not the right reasons. They'd introduce me to somebody else as the Olympian or the swimmer. I didn't want to stand out. I wanted to blend in.
- Amanda Beard

If you can sit in silence with a person for half an hour and yet be entirely comfortable, you and that person can be friends. If you cannot, friends you'll never be and you need not waste time in trying.
- L M Montgomery

Borunia: Why do you want to be my friend?
Samarga: I want to know if we can be friends.
- Toba Beta

Should we still be friends when it could be more profitable if otherwise?
- Toba Beta

I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.
- E M Forster

So, good night unto you all.
Give me your hands, if we be friends,
and Robin shall restore amends.
- William Shakespeare

Bruno: We're not supposed to be friends, you and me. We're meant to be enemies. Did you know that?
- John Boyne

I wish I could print up a sign and tape it on my forehead. I OFFICIALLY DO NOT WANT TO KISS ETHAN WATE. NOW PLEASE LET ME BE FRIENDS WITH HIM.
- Kami Garcia

I knew it. You're an alien," said her former best friend, the pale, bespectacled creature with the spectacular cleavage.
"Yes, I'm an alien and I still made cheerleader. And now I'm going to steal your boyfriend to prove girls can't really be friends."
"I sat back timidly when you torched my house, killed my parents, and ate my dog. But now you're stealing my boyfriend? That's a step too far!
- Libba Bray

People have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk about each other's work.
- Anatole Broyard

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
- Jean De La Bruyere

It was hard for a man and a woman to be fiends with no under thought or glimpsed prospect of sex. They wanted to be friends. It was almost a matter of principle. She was as intelligent as any Fellow of King's - though he thought she did not know it - he was in love with her mind as it followed clues through labyrinths. Love is, among many other things, a response to energy, and Griselda's mind was precise and energetic. He wanted to make love to her too. The Children's BOOK
- A S Byatt

Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.
- Lord Byron

Remembering from last year how Haymitch's gifts are often timed to send a message, I make a note to myself. Be friends with Finnick. You'll get food.
- Suzanne Collins

Love and passion are well and good while they last, but in the end what mattes is whether you like the person you are with. Friendship and companionship matter more. They are the things that last. And if in the end we learn to be friends, I will be content.
- Arlene J Chai

I've always resented Hermione, because I wanted to be her so badly and she never seemed to appreciate as much as I thought she should that she got to be her. She got to live at Hogwarts and be friends with Harry and kiss Ron, which was supposed to happen to me.
- David Levithan

A lot of people who were the best in their fields. I was fortunate enough to be friends with Sammy Davis, Jr. - I spent a lot of time with Sammy. I was over at his house almost every night. Those people were very special and very special for me.
- James Darren

I really hate it when people want to kill me. It makes me think they don't want to be friends. - Raven from Blood of Prey
- R J Dennis

What if I don't want to be friends with you?" he challenged, grinning again, staring directly into my eyes. Obviously taking me seriously was an impossibility for Evan.
Despite not being able to breathe, I connected with his taunting gaze and refused to look away. "Then we won't be friends," I said flatly.
"What if I want to be more than friends?
- Rebecca Donovan

Sometimes I'd hate to talk to anyone, and at other times I'd not only talk to people, but would even take it into my head to be friends with them.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Maybe Im getting to the age when Im starting to be senile or nostalgic or both, but people are so angry now. You used to be able to disagree with people and still be friends. Now you hear these talk shows, and everyone who believes differently from you is a moron and an idiot - both on the Right and the Left.
- Clint Eastwood

You're nice,' Cushie told him, squeezing his hand. 'And you're my oldest friend.' But they both must have known that you can know someone all your life and never quite be friends.
- John Irving

As Harry puts it, men and women can never be friends because 'the sex part always gets in the way.
- Nora Ephron

J'veut ton amour
et je veut ton revange
J'veut ton amour
I don't wanna be friends!
- Lady Gaga

We...we could be friends.'
We COULD be rare specimens of an exotic breed of dancing African elephants, but we're not. At least, I'M not.
- Neil Gaiman

Parents are trying to be friends with their kids rather than draw the line and tell them what proper public behavior would be.
- Gallagher

We can't be friends. That never works. I'd have to be all careful and brave and pathetic, you'd feel guilty all the time and you'd start being nice in weird fake ways to make up for it.' She was starting to cry, but she felt free, she felt relieved as you can only feel when you have wrecked yourself on the rocks and don't have to worry about navigating anymore.
- Susan Gilbert Collins

Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if there was no sex between you.
- William Glasser

A gay man can be friends with a straight man. That can happen.
- Steve Guttenberg

For Colin Firth:
You're a really great guy, but I'm married, so I think we should just be friends.
- Shannon Hale

Maybe I could be friends with a ghost. I wouldn't be able to kill him.
- Kim Harrison

Just because you are family doesn't guarantee you'll be friends.
- Cat Hellisen

They used to be buddies, I thought, they used to be friends, and now they hate each other because one has to work for a living and the other comes from the West Side. They shouldn't hate each other..
- S E Hinton

my friends don't seem to be friends at all but people whose phone numbers I haven't lost.
- Nick Hornby

We're meant to be friends but you never tell me anything.
- Anthony Horowitz

Shake hands, we shall never be friends; give over:
I only vex you the more I try.
All's wrong that ever I've done and said,
And nought to help it in this dull head:
Shake hands, goodnight, goodbye.
But if you come to a road where danger
Or guilt or anguish or shame's to share,
Be good to the lad that loves you true
And the soul that was born to die for you,
And whistle and I'll be there.
- A E Housman

I guess if you're really a friend, you overlook certain things. Its easy to be friends with someone who only says things you want to hear. I guess if you're really a friend, you have to cut a friend some slack.
- Catherine Ryan Hyde

What's so phony nowadays is all this familiarity. Pretending there isn't any difference between people well, like you were saying about minorities, this morning. If you and I are no different, what do we have to give each other? How can we ever be friends?
- Christopher Isherwood

I loved her more than she loved me, that was the problem. A basic imbalance. Relationships like that never last, however hard you try. And now she's pregnant and in love with a man who'll never love her the way she loves him. It's a series of vicious circles, and the only way to stop it is to find someone who loves you the same. No power struggle. No insecurities. Just friendship. Because you can never be friends with someone if you love them too much.
- Lisa Jewell

How far would I go to be friends with someone? Halfway.
- Jarod Kintz

If a handicapped woman says she wants to be friends with benefits, I always ask her if that includes parking.
- Jarod Kintz

When a girl says she wants to be friends with benefits, I always ask if that includes dental insurance.
- Jarod Kintz

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

I love Eminem, I love Moby. Why can't we just be friends?
- Chris Kirkpatrick

What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
- C S Lewis

And it wasn't that you couldn't be friends with a married woman, but you weren't friends in the same way, she didn't have the same freedom i her schedule, especially not after she had children, and even before that, she didn't need you; you needed friendship, and friendship to her was auxiliary, extra.
- Curtis Sittenfeld

It's not a good thing to be friends with people you're covering. There's just no point in doing it. It's tempting, but they're not going to consider you their friend anyway. They just know that you're somebody that can do something for them.
- Kurt Loder

Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who off you friendship
Let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest!
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I believe it, she's a very good person, kind. There's weariness there, but no bitterness or spite. When you're with a girl like that you feel like a different person. You try to be better, and that's a strain. Men prefer to be friends with her kind, flirt a bit, share confidences. They don't often fall in love with girls like that, but everybody loves them.
- Sergei Lukyanenko

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
- Shirley Maclaine

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
- Shirley Maclaine

Friends, I told myself. We could be friends. Friends held hands all the time, and I hadn't given up hope that maybe he could even be gay. Gay would be perfect.
- Shawn Kirsten Maravel

No, it's not okay. You said you wanna be friends, but we can't hang out?" I rolled my eyes, and Travis huffed. "Don't roll your eyes at me. Are you coming or not?
- Jamie Mcguire

I didn't say you were a bad person. I just don't like being a foregone conclusion for sole reason of having a vagina." I focused on the grains of salt on the table until I heard a choking noise from Travis's direction.
His eyes widened and he quivered with howling laughter. "Oh my God! You're killing me! That's it. We have to be friends. I won't take no for an answer.
- Jamie Mcguire

You should know by now that it takes patience and a forgiving attitude to be friends with Travis. He's his own universe."
I shook my head. "That's the Travis everyone else sees...not the Travis I know.
- Jamie Mcguire

I wasn't in school often enough to really belong to a 'clique,' but my friends all studied hard and got pretty good grades. They were good people with self-respect. I still like to be friends with people I admire something about; I really believe that we become like the people we're surrounded by, so I choose my friends carefully!
- Danica Mckellar

Some people you can't be friends with, not when you've been something more.
- Graham Mcnamee

Why are the only happy endings the ones where the couples get together?" I ask. "Can't they just be friends? Can't that be a happy ending too?
- Ted Michael

She wants to be friends. But what does that mean? Were we ever really friends? Friends don't stay up talking on the phone Every Single Night about Stupid Lit le Things and Most Important Things until it's light outside. Friends don't tell each other their most secret secrets. Friends don't hook up. Friends don't ache for each other. They just don't.
- Ted Michael

We'll be friends until forever, just you wait and see
- A A Milne

We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
Even longer,' Pooh answered.
- A A Milne

Let's be friends based on mutual hate.
- Bryan Lee O Malley

let us be friends then from this out
- Eugene O Neill

If it wasn't for music, I doubt whether we'd be friends.
- John Oates

I mostly want to be friends with my children.
- Vanessa Paradis

Can't we be friends?'
I hate your guts, Frankovitch'
Can't our guts be friends?
- Barbara Park

You can't be friends with a squirrel! A squirrel is just a rat with a cuter outfit.
- Sarah Jessica Parker

Gliding down the bike path on a Saturday morning, you whip by somebody peddling in the opposite direction and give each other a nod. For a moment it's like Hey, we're both doing the same thing. Let's be friends for a second.
- Neil Pasricha

Today, the people are governing the governments. And when they begin to talk to each other, they are surprised, they can be friends. Why should we hate each other?
- Shimon Peres

If your clothes are enough to drive would-be friends away, they're not the kind of friends you want.
Typical mother advice. Sweet, honest, and completely useless.
- Aprilynne Pike

One of the tragedies of the Bush administration is that we went back to business as usual, make a deal with the Democrats, let's all be friends in Washington philosophy.
- Pete Du Pont

And I still love you in my own fucked-up way. I miss you, I really do. Can we still be friends?
- Matthew Quick

I'm certain that it was an incredible gift for me to not only be friends with some of the greatest blues people who've ever lived, but to learn how they played, how they sang, how they lived their lives, ran their marriages, and talked to their kids.
- Bonnie Raitt

Whether you like another band's music or not you never know who is going to take you out on tour or who you are going to be friends with and that is just something that is important to us.
- Adam Rich

We need to in this country begin again to raise civil discourse to another level. I mean, we shout and scream and yell and get very little accomplished, but you can disagree very much with the next guy and still be friends and acquaintances.
- Leah Ward Sears

But in the end it's still a game of golf, and if at the end of the day you can't shake hands with your opponents and still be friends, then you've missed the point.
- Payne Stewart

I used to be friends with Miles Davis. He didn't like many folks. I lived across the street from him.
- Rip Torn

I would love to have seen a male-female relationship that had nothing to do with falling in love, I'd love to prove, even on TV - even if it's not true! - that men and women can be friends without any kind of involvement.
- Nana Visitor

You're not friends. You'll never be friends. You'll be in love till it kills you both. You'll fight, and you'll shag, and you'll hate each other till it makes you quiver, but you'll never be
friends. Love isn't brains, children, it's blood... blood screaming inside you to work its will. I may be love's bitch, but at least I'm man enough to admit it.
- Joss Whedon

Perhaps he does not want to be friends with you until he knows what you are like. With owls, it is never easy-come-easy-go.
- T H White