Margaret Lee Runbeck Quotes

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

Oh, I don't talk about Jack and me. Some things are too good to share.

When I was a kid - 10, 11, 12, 13 - the thing I wanted most in the world was a best friend. I wanted to be important to people; to have people that understood me. I wanted to just be close to somebody.

A small silence came between us, as precise as a picture hanging on the wall.

I can't really explain what it's like to be in love, but I feel like it's being comfortable. It's almost like having a best friend. It's a beautiful thing.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Everybody needs one essential friend.

I think the things that are most intimate are nameless and shapeless.

Now, I realise that love is peace. Love is when you are with somebody, and it's okay, and you don't have to talk. Their presence is important.

'Secret' is about intimacy between two people and the connection you have with someone that goes beyond words.

How wonderful it is, to be silent with someone.

There's something nice about the silence of a car ride in the dark, going home. When you were tired of the radio and conversation, and it was okay to just be alone with your thoughts and the road ahead. If you're that comfortable with someone, you don't have to talk.

Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.

Laughing together is as close as you can get to a hug without touching.

Your friend is your needs answered.

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

You can relate to somebody's pain and you have compassion, which can lead to intimacy.

There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do.

A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

That's the sign of a good relationship, when you can pick up a phone and it doesn't matter when the last time you spoke was.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.

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

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.