best-friends

On and off the field, you're my hardest fall, Zoe. No one ever compared. No one ever will.

But you__e right about one thing: he__ my best friend. I know him very well, and no matter what he said or did tonight, I__e never seen him act this way with another girl. No one,_ he repeated, __xcept you.

She'd known me my whole life. It's hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing a part of yourself.

When a person thinks you are too good for them, they create a wall without even taking a chance. The best life that God has in store for a person is often thrown away because of what he or she thinks they deserve. True love is not the life you had, but the life you never realized you could have.

I have a transgressive spirit, and Pop is transgression's best friend.

I have learned to be kinder to myself, to imagine that I am my own best friend, whispering comforting words in my ear and drowning out the voices of Self-Doubt and Self-Criticism. I have learned to acknowledge and appreciate the 98% that I have achieved instead of the 2% that I didn__.

A best friend is the one person that doesn't leave you worse off by their actions or yours.

Like my girlfriend Denisha is always saying (she__ an Episcopalian), some of Jesus_ best friends were sex workers.

We pick up our shots and for the first time there's a total absence of sound in the room. From the ceiling, shy silver things blink and wait. Dennis doesn't sit, but hovers at the edge of the table, leaning in with a darkroom perfected slump. His hair hangs like its edges were dipped in lead. Thin spears pointing to the table. I'm looking at his face; we're both serious in a self-aware way, pretending not to notice."It doesn't even feel like I left. God, you look fucking terrible. But it's a terrible face that drinks tequila well. Down. And cheers."We force a dull clash of cups and pour everything down at once. The hard tequila shudders that never happen in the movies. First your head feels light, then it starts receiving the distress signals from throat, lungs, belly. Your shoulders jerk to shake off the snake that wrapped around you and squeezed. It burns. The good burn.

Best (male-female) friends hardly differ from lovers, but not too many lovers are best friends.It's just ironical that you are in love and want to spend the rest of your life with someone who is not good enough to be your best friend.

I know he__ a realist, he__ okay with being alone, and he helps people when he thinks no one is watching.

I suppose that means you don__ want any band-aids, either,_ I said, a touch more bitterly than I__ meant to.

If he can__ handle it, then you aren__ very good friends, are you?

As much as I cared about him, I wasn__ a slave to fate. I could choose to ignore my feelings, strong as they were. It would be painful, but no more so than letting myself pine for my friend.

You__ be hard-pressed to find an old person who would trade in a true friend for any amount of popularity or fame. You'd also be hard-pressed to find a young person who wouldn't.

I may not be happy with you right now, but I still love you.

Being in love with your best friend is problematic.

And then there's that person that no matter what, they'll answer your call at 4 am. Your 4am-er. They'll say exactly what you need to hear to bring you back to earth. Your comfort, your voice of reason, your hit upside the head. And he'll always be my 4 am-er.