Ann Patchett Quotes

Life is nothing without friendship.

It was quite nice meeting up because we went through a lot together and we haven't really seen each much other to communicate one to one for quite a long time.

Every time we had a raid, I'd get a boyfriend out of it.

For me, I'm lucky to have a lot of close friends - through football or through my family.

We need to have intimate, enduring bonds; we need to be able to confide; we need to feel that we belong; we need to be able to get support, and just as important for happiness, to give support. We need many kinds of relationships; for one thing, we need friends.

People come into your lives who you have a good time with, and time goes by and you still have a good time with them and you do stupid stuff with them. To me, that's life.

Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold.

I think the most important thing in life is relationships. I think that feeds us almost like food.

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.

The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.

Happiness, for me, is a function of the number of people I love, and I think joy and happiness is directly related to how many people are in our lives and how deeply we are bonded with those people.

Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.

Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.

All I have are the people.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

Our friendships are really the epicenter of our social world and emotional lives.

It's who you get to share life with, not the actual experiences, that makes living so worthwhile.

Relationships are so important to all of us.

I do have many close girlfriends; these relationships are paramount in my life.

The Boss doesn't need friends, but the ones I do have, I keep very close.

The Making of Friends Life is sweet because of the friends we have made And the things which in common we share; We want to live on, not because of ourselves, But because of the ones who would care. It's living and doing for somebody else On that all of life's splendor depends, And the joy of it all, when we count it all up, Is found in the making of friends.

True friends share everything, except the past before they met.

It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist.

Friendship's the wine of life.