Nothing of real worth can ever be bought. Love friendship honour valour respect. All these things have to be earned.

There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person however dear and beloved but an expansion an interpretation of ones self the very meaning of ones soul.

Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recognition.

Those who cannot conceive Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend. The rest of us know that though we can have erotic love and friendship for the same person yet in some ways nothing is less like a Friendship than a love-affair. Lovers are always talking to one another about their love Friends hardly ever about their Friendship. Lovers are normally face to face absorbed in each other Friends side by side absorbed in some common interest. Above all Eros while it lasts is necessarily between two only. But two far from being the necessary number for Friendship is not even the best. And the reason for this is important.... In each of my friends there is something that only some other friend can fully bring out. By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity I want other lights than my own to show all his facets... Hence true Friendship is the least jealous of loves. Two friends delight to be joined by a third and three by a fourth if only the newcomer is qualified to become a real friend. They can then say as the blessed souls say in Dante Here comes one who will augment our loves. For in this love to divide is not to take away.

...Despite the mayhem that followed Bruno found that he was still holding Shmuels hand in his own and nothing in the world would have persuaded him to let go.

Thats what I love about Aibileen she can take the most complicated things in life and wrap them up so small and simple theyll fit right in your pocket.

the world is not a pleasant place to be without someone to hold and be held by.

You know what the secret is Its so simple. We love one another. Were nice to one another. Do you know how rare that is - Carmen

You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger a stranger whos a friend.

Everything about her has to do with me.