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Friendship, companionship: it so often defied logic, so often eluded the deserving, so often settled itself on the odd, the bad, the peculiar, the damaged.

— Hanya Yanagihara

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More quotes by Hanya Yanagihara

Wasn’t friendship its own miracle, the finding of another person who made the entire lonely world seem somehow less lonely?

Life was elsewhere, and it was frightening and vast and mountainous and uncomfortable.

The People in the Trees (2013)

What he knew, he knew from books, and books lied, they made things prettier.

Sometimes I would have to take my glasses off simply so the world would smudge and recede for a moment and cease to seem so relentlessly present tense.

The People in the Trees (2013)

Often, we’re drawn most powerfully to people who we know have the capacity to harm us.

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Health is the greatest gift, contentment is the greatest wealth, a trusted friend is the best relative, Nibbana is the greatest bliss.

Gautama Buddha

Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

Sanu Sharma

Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like;
Friendship is a sheltering tree;
Oh the joys that came down shower-like,
Of friendship, love, and liberty,
Ere I was old!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Anaïs Nin Diary entries (1914)

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