Adriana Trigiani Quotes

A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.

The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when.

Friends accept you the way you are.

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

I think a good friend, to me, is all about trust and loyalty. You don't ever want to second-guess whether you can tell your friend something.

If you can find a group of women, any age, who are supportive and kind and love you, that's the best. I have a group of girlfriends that I would lay in front of a bus for. They've picked me up through really, really bad times and I can definitely say I've done the same for them.

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Oh my God, my girlfriends are everything to me. They celebrate with you, they cry with you, they hold you when you need to be held. They laugh with you. They're mean with you! They're always there, and it's just a priceless thing to have.

I say find one true friend to help you get through the tough times.

A sister is the one person you can call in the middle of the night when you can't sleep or the one who doesn't want to hear about your problems unless you're ready to do something about them. She's the one who is there when you need her or the one whose absence when you need her hurts the most.

I always say that when you have friends that are girls, you tell each other everything.

It is absolutely okay with me if you need to keep some secrets. I've been thinking about this and I decided that a best friend is someone who, when they don't understand, they still understand.

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

Your friend is your needs answered.

She's always there for me when I need her; She's my best friend; she's just my everything.

My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you're most ashamed of.

The only people you can really share certain things with in secret are your girlfriends.

You forge different bonds with friends than with family, tell different secrets.

My sister has been there for me through everything.

Value your friendship. Value your relationships.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

He that is thy friend indeed, he will help thee in thy need: if thou sorrow, he will weep; if you wake, he cannot sleep; thus of every grief in heart he with thee doth bear a part.

It's a big deal to reveal your friend's deepest truth, your friend's deepest secret. And for all of us, when we do these big things, there's a complexity of motivation that comes behind that decision.