He's a better person when she's around, and isn't that what friends are for, to raise you up and keep you at your best?

She used to pride herself on her refusal to see two sides of an argument, but increasingly she accepts that issues are more ambiguous and complicated than she once thought.

If you're my friend I should be able to talk to you but I can't, and if I can't talk to you, well, what is the point of you? Of us?

As a matter of fact, I think there are more things important in life than "relationships.

Just kidding' was exactly what people wrote when they meant every word.

but they had also settled into the maddening familiarity of friendship; maddening for her at least.

The attraction of a life devoted to sensation, pleasure and self would probably wear thin one day, but there was still plenty of time for that yet.