Markus Zusak Quotes

I want someone who is my partner in life. Who supports me, and I support her. I can share all my experiences in life with her, and she can share hers back with me. Not only do we love each other, but we accept, embrace, nurture, and care for each other.

You're my friend, Danny. You understand? There's no debt between friends." Maybe it's just that the debt gets so high you stop counting it.

I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know that you're not lying to them or misleading them.

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

I think all women have a friend who at some point dumped them or betrayed them or deeply disappointed them. And at the same time all women have a friend who they dumped or betrayed or hurt in some way. That's universal in women's friendships.

Honesty does not always bring a response of love, but it is absolutely essential to it.

I guess I have friends around me but when you're paying them can they ever really be true friends?

Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That's a nice person. There's friendship when you do for each other. It's like marriage - it's two-sided.

Be there for people, and they'll be there for you.

Women care about their friends.

Voters are okay with you believing something they don't believe, as long as they think you genuinely believe it, and you believe it because you care about them.

I take pride in creating genuine relationships with people that genuinely care about you.

The real friend is another self.

The ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the other nor of the self: the ultimate touchstone is witness, the privilege of having been seen by someone and the equal privilege of being granted the sight of the essence of another, to have walked with them and to have believed in them, and sometimes just to have accompanied them for however brief a span, on a journey impossible to accomplish alone.

I wish that friendship should have feet, as well as eyes and eloquence. It must plant itself on the ground, before it vaults overthe moon. I wish it to be a little of a citizen, before it is quite a cherub.

Thou learnest no secret until thou knowest friendship, since to the unsound no heavenly knowledge enters.

The allure of love is to have someone who knows you so well that you don't have to explain yourself. It is the promise of someone who cares enough about you to protect you against the world of strangers who do not wish you well.

Two people who are true friends are like two bodies with one soul

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

The boy and his heart had become friends, and neither was capable now of betraying the other.

Friendship admits of difference of character, as love does that of sex.

Sooner or later you've heard all your best friends have to say. Then comes the tolerance of real love.

...a really good friend, the kind of friend who - when they were together both of them were more able to be who they really were.

If you are going to be with someone all the time, they need to be your best friend.

What is a friend? I will tell you . . . . it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.