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"Lena realized that a fundamental layer of their happiness depended on the four of them being close to one another. Their lives were independent and full. Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives, but it seemed to give meaning to all the others."
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"A friend is someone who will always be there for you, in good and hard times."

"Don't appreciate me, I'm not up to it. Don't criticize me, I don't deserve it. Just be my friend and forgive me, because I am craving for it."

"Friendship is a gift forever;Cherish everyday, forget it never"

"Friendships - and indeed most relationships - are measured in the closeness of hearts, minds and soul ties... not in the distance of physical miles or even the passing of time."

"Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend."

"A good friend loves you when the condition is better, a best friend holds your hand when you're in gutter."

"What lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy."

"A good friend is someone who can love you like a dog and talk to you like a human."

"The depth of friendship depends on the depth of our love."

"Anyone can have a friend, but the one that would walk in a storm to find you is all you will ever need."
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"Someday when you're twenty, maybe, I'll see you again. You'll be this hot soccer star at some great school, with a million guys more interesting than I am chasing you down. And you know what? I'll see you and I'll pray you want me still."

"It was hard to feel the right emotions at the right times. They didn't come at all when you set a place for them, and they sacked when you weren't ready, when you were just innocently flossing your teeth, for example, or eating a bowl of cereal."

"Desire was just the dumbest thing. You wanted what you wanted until it was yours. Then you didn't want it anymore. You took what you had for granted until it was no longer yours. This, it seemed to her, was one of the crueller paradoxes of human nature."

"Lena studied the faces of the girls on the sidelines. She could tell that Kostos owned the lust of what few local teenage girls there were in Oia, but instead he chose to dance with all the grandmothers, all the women who had raised him, who had poured into him the love they couldn't spend on their own absent children and grandchildren."

"Tibby, who was not fond of change, had once told Bridget that the present, no matter what it brought, couldn't change the past. The past was set and sealed."

"Honesty was a tough customer... Once you started allowing yourself some honesty, it couldn't easily be contained or limited to one part of your life. It was like poison ivy or a bossy houseguest. Once it was there, you couldn't tell it what to do. You had to really fight to keep it from taking over."

"How terrible would it be to just wait there pathetically alone for him never to show up?'Eudoxia's expression grew more serious. 'That's what you're doing anyway, my dear."

"But I know this. We're ready to move forward again in our way. Together or apart, no matter how far apart, we live in one another. We go on together."
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