If you've only one breath left, use it to say thank you.
A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers.
Love is to understand, at last, the suffering of another.
Bears being sent through the mail should never be squashed up to make them fit. It gives them indigestion.
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
Sisters annoy, interfere, criticize. Indulge in monumental sulks, in huffs, in snide remarks. Borrow. Break. Monopolize the bathroom. Are always underfoot. But if catastrophe should strike, sisters are there. Defending you against all comers.