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"Besides the obvious difference, there was not much distinction between losing a best friend and losing a lover: it was all about intimacy. One moment, you had someone to share your biggest triumphs and fatal flaws with; the next minute, you had to keep them bottled inside. One moment, you’d start to call her to tell her a snippet of news or to vent about your awful day before realizing you did not have that right anymore; the next, you could not remember the digits of her phone number."

—Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care

"I don’t trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It’s a sure sign that they don’t really know anyone."

—Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel’s Game

"I need a new friend. I need a friend, period. Not a true friend, nothing close or share clothes or sleepover giggle giggle yak yak. Just a pseudo-friend, disposable friend. Friend as accessory. Just so I don’t feel or look so stupid."

—Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

"I have no friends. I have nothing. I say nothing. I am nothing."

—Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

"Maybe this was our last summer as best friends. I feel like something’s going to change now and I’m not going to be able to change it back."

—Jacqueline Woodson, Last Summer with Maizon

"Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you’re really strangers."

—Mary Tyler Moore

"You ever have that feeling? Like you’ve known someone your whole life but you don’t know them at all."

—Ann Aguirre, Blue Diablo

"That’s what happens to friends, eventually. They leave you. It’s practically what they’re for."

—Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making