My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm. - Pamela Anderson No one in my family or my circle of friends had ever had to confront something like this. Jamie was seventeen, a child on the verge of womanhood, dying and still very much alive at the same time. I was afraid, more afraid than I'd ever been, not only for her, but for me as well. I lived in fear of doing something wrong, of doing something that would offend her. Was it okay to ever get angry in her presence? Was it okay to talk about the future anymore? - Nicholas Sparks One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends is that three out of four murders are committed by people who know the victim. - George Carlin Prison widens your circle of friends. In my stand-up, I can now talk about things that no one else has the right to touch. - Craig Charles Growing up it...

You may choose your friends, but not your unlikely saviors, Magnus said cheerfully. - Cassandra Clare Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly -- all these make for great stories. - Chuck Palahniuk Choose your friends with caution; plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith. - Thomas S Monson You can choose your friends but you sho' can't choose your family, an' they're still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge 'em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don't. - Harper Lee When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character. - W Somerset Maugham Choose your friends and mates, not by the money in their bank account, creed, ethnicity, or color; instead, choose character, actions, heart, and soul. When we bleed, we bleed the same color. - Ana Monnar

Change lives through art maybe. Write beautifully. Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved if at all possible. Eat sensibly. Stuff like that. - David Nicholls Simply try and be good and courageous and bold and to make a difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit around you. Go out there with your passion and your electric typewriter and work hard at...something. Change lives through art maybe. Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved, if you ever get the chance. - David Nicholls Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved if at all possible. (Love and be loved, if you ever get the chance.) - David Nicholls

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 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 Some people you can't be friends with, not when you've been something more. - Graham Mcnamee You can't be friends with a squirrel! A squirrel is just a rat with a cuter outfit. - Sarah Jessica Parker

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. ...

Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. - Ambrose Bierce The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. - Elizabeth Bowen How do we remember to remember? That's a question I've asked myself often since my time on Duma Key, often in the small hours of the morning, looking up into the absence of light, remembering absent friends. Sometimes in those little hours I think about the horizon. You have to establish the horizon. You have to mark the white. A simple enough act, you might say, but any act that re-makes the world is heroic. Or so I've come to believe. - Stephen King To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due. - Neil Gaiman

Maybe what I really wanted, I began to think, was a stronger sense of fellowship... I thought about my friends and about how I didn't have any.. - Daniel Clowes This was what I liked most about my friends: just sitting around & telling stories. - John Green

I have really good instincts about friends. - Nicole Richie Do you know what is nice about friendships as longstanding as ours?" Hyacinth interrupted. Felicity shook her head. "You won't take permanent offense when I turn my back and walk away." And then Hyacinth did just that. - Julia Quinn I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case. - Warren Christopher That was a funny thing about friends, Marylin thought. You could know a person practically your whole life and she could still surprise you. - Frances O Roark Dowell I like writing about friends. - Julie Garwood I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff. - J...

We have a group of friends of the museum who try to raise, if they can, periodically something to help us. Of course, the main thing about a building like this is its upkeep. It needs central heating and it needs central air conditioning. - Katherine Dunham I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through. - Randy Harrison Me and a group of friends meeting in private to bond and have fun may appear to outsiders as a shadowy secret society plotting to take over the world. But that's utter nonsense. That group meets on Sundays, and takes place in the sunshine, where nobody will suspect the sinister nature of our plans. - Jarod Kintz It was a time of great loneliness. He had a group of friends, and suddenly I had no one and did not understand why. I felt excluded. Some days, the majority was in high school and did not know who to ta...

A friendship between a man and a woman was what you called it when one had been pursuing the other for a long time and never gotten anywhere. - Joe Abercrombie But it may be the hard part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly. - J R R Tolkien Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune. - Aeschylus It takes two people to make a friendship work - Jodi Picoult Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary. - Amos Bronson Alcott "Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary. - Louisa May Alcott Jo's eyes sparkled, for it's always pleasant to be believed in; and a friend's praise is always sweeter than a dozen newspaper puffs. - Louisa May Alcott A friend told me about the casting notice for 'Queer Eye.' I was in Chicago and I had a contract with 'Esquire' magazine, so had been coming to New York City regularly and thought I'd catch a cheap flight, crash on a friend's sofa and do this hilarious audition that I ha...