There is a difference between giving into something and accepting it.

That was the very heart of friendship...your willingness to help each other in a jam, to take a friend's problems as your very own.

The most important things in a friendship didn't have to be said out loud.

But really, there are no coincidences. Coincidences are just other people's choices, plans you don't know about.

A person's birthday should be a special day, a wonderful day, a day of pure celebration for the luck of being born!

There is a difference between giving into something and accepting it.

A great friendship was like a great work of art, he thought. It took time and attention, and a spark of something that was impossible to describe. It was a happy, lucky accident, finding some kindred part of yourself in a total stranger." pg. 287