It’s braver to stay. It takes courage to stay. I am sure I speak for all the single people here when I say that I don’t want to ever lack that courage. I don’t want to lose my best friend and my true love, just because I wanted to stay in control and not take a risk. Even if they walked away, even if they ran to the other side of the world, even if I thought that I didn't have a chance in hell, I still want to know that I did everything I could to make it happen.

— Gemma Burgess

It tugs at me, filling me with the kind of seasick nostalgia that can hit you in the gut when you find an old concert ticket in your purse or an old coin machine ring you got down at the boardwalk on a day when you went searching for mermaids in the surf with your best friend. That punch of nostalgia hits me now, and I start to sink down on the sky-colored quilt, feeling the nubby fabric under my fingers, familiar as the topography of my hand.

— Brenna Ehrlich

I wanted him to meet Ainsley. She was super important to me. I made my decision. “I... I would like that.” Rider’s reaction was immediate. He smiled and the dimple appeared. My breath caught. I’d actually invited Rider along to meet Ainsley. I wanted that. Really wanted that, but I had no idea what to do with that. Regardless, excitement hummed through me. Hanging out with Rider and Ainsley was normal. Something a million people probably did every day, because they were actually living life, but it was a first for me—a huge first. It was my best friend, and it was the guy...the guy who’d been my best friend and who now, despite everything, felt like something deeper, richer and more intricate, hanging out together. It felt important.

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

I want to talk to her. I want to have lunch with her. Furthermore, I want her to give me a book she just read and loved. She is my phantom limb, and I just can’t believe I’m here without her.”- on losing her best friend

— Nora Ephron

I was crying because I had broken my best friend's heart.

— Sherman Alexie

Kindness is a girl's best friend.

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Learn to be your own best friend first then you will find true happiness, because happiness is from within.

— Gift Gugu Mona

More times than I’m willing to admit I am my own worst enemy, which suggests that more times than I’m willing to admit I should allow God to be my own best friend.

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

One of my pa...friends... isn't doing very well.""... Is your friend dying?""... Yes honey, he is."" That's sad.

— Justin Madson

Popular culture has made it okay to yell "I want a man!" from the rooftops, so why are we still embarrassed to say, "I want a best friend"?

— Rachel Bertsche