Adulthood Friendship Quotes

#1. All close friendships are marked with competition. Our earliest tests are against our siblings and playmates, and some of that rivalry endures amongst friends into adulthood. Like dogs play fighting, you learn not to bite hard.

Christopher Bollen

#2. In a basic sense, 'A Little Life' is a homage to how my friends and I live our lives. I wanted to push past the definitions of how we typically define friendship. It's a different version of adulthood, but it's no less important and no less legitimate than anyone else's.

Hanya Yanagihara

#3. I just don't think that I trust men. That's the problem. I can appreciate a beautiful-looking man, but he's not my type.

Cara Delevingne

#4. Sometimes I just cringe. I can feel the emotion, that whole anxiety of being in this new world that I sort of evolved into. I would just do it, put it out there, and go for it.

Kalup Linzy

#5. Does he have ugly hands? Sometimes beautiful people have ugly hands.

Anonymous

#6. They sealed this promise by hooking pinkies, the way they used to, long ago, when promises didn't hurt as much.

Alice Hoffman

#7. There is not a string attuned to mirth but has its chord of melancholy.

Thomas Hood

#8. ... when your palm laced like water
on a cheek of mine, a finger raiding
each contour by oath, we both knew
that in growing up, some signs had to be
sought behind closed doors, and upon discovery,
remain beyond the doors we wrought as ransom.

Jerrold Yam

#9. Worry denies the power of God and produces no good results. Worry adds no value to your life. Eliminate it with God's help.

Elizabeth George

#10. [T]he three greatest works are those of Homer, Dante and Shakespeare.
These are closely followed by the works of Virgil and Milton.

Joseph Devlin