forming friendships Quotes

But I discovered that people like me -- they do, you know, if you like them -- and then it was all right.

Those who pass their lives in foreign travel find they contract many ties of hospitality, but form no friendships.

It is hard to find a friend,' I said. 'It is the hardest thing in this world,' he agreed.

Kids are probably frustrated and egos are too much involved and kids don't know how to get together and be kids and start a group and it's kind of sad because I feel like if you come out with three or four people in the beginning, you can be protected and everybody can shield each other. Before you get out there by yourself and get all these people coming at you. I just think it's not really there.

We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected.

Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know. For me, the spark that turns an acquaintance into a friend has usually been kindled by some shared enthusiasm . . . At fifteen, I couldn't say two words about the weather or how I was doing, but I could come up with a paragraph or two about the album Charlie Parker with Strings. In high school, I made the first real friends I ever had because one of them came up to me at lunch and started talking about the Cure.

It requires a long time to know anyone.

My favorite thing about partying together is sharing the memories.

Some friendships are formed by a commonality of interests and ideas: you both love judo or camping or making your own sausage. Other friendships are forged in alliance against a common enemy.