Looking for the perfect words to describe what your bestie means to you? Well, I’ve got a list of 20 literary quotes about friendship that are just the ticket. They’re sweet, they’re touching, and perfectly capture what it’s like to have someone who just gets you. So, scroll down and let’s see which one feels like it was written just for you and your best friend! (P.S. I’m totally biased towards No. 1!)
1. “I don’t care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching―they are your family.”
― Jim Butcher, Proven Guilty
2. “I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that’s why.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
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3. “If you weren’t my friend, I wouldn’t know who I was.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You
4. “Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.”
― Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You
5. “We are in this together, remember? When you fall apart, I will pick you up, just as you have done for me a million times before.”
― Annabel den Dekker, Ailene
6. “That’s the problem with best friends. Sometimes they know you better than you know yourself.”
― Cecily von Ziegesar, Nobody Does It Better
7. “It is so good to have friends who understand how there is a time for crying and a time for laughing, and that sometimes the two are very close together.”
― Lois Lowry, A Summer to Die
8. “You only really fall apart in front of the people you know can piece you back together.”
― Sarah Dessen, Saint Anything
9. “You show up for your friends on their hardest days. And you hold their hand through the roughest parts. Life is about who is holding your hand and, I think, whose hand you commit to holding.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six
10. “The right to silence was always more important in our friendship than the right to questions.”
― Lana Bastašić, Catch the Rabbit
11. “Wasn’t friendship its own miracle, the finding of another person who made the entire lonely world seem somehow less lonely?”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
12. “I’m your friend. And friends don’t let friends live small lives.”
―Rainbow Rowell & Faith Erin Hicks, Pumpkinheads
And that wraps up our literary quotes on friendship! Which one resonates? Drop a comment, share with your besties, and don’t forget to explore our other collections:
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