Friendship Complexity Variations

Table of Contents

• Platonic and Deep Friendships
• Friendship and Trust
• Friendship and Betrayal/Disappointment
• Friendship and Change
• Unexpected Friendships
• Friendship and Sacrifice/Support
• Friendship and Romance
• Friendship and Loneliness
• Friendship Dynamics in Groups
• Other

Platonic and Deep Friendships

Harry and Hermione are very platonic friends. But I won't answer for anyone else, nudge-nudge wink-wink!

How they became friends was no great mystery, but now they remained so, braided together beyond their shared college quarters, this transcended the usual alchemy of optimism and obligation that kept friendships intact, kept people from fading into other categories: old friend, college friend, just someone I once knew. None of the four would ever be just anything to the others...

Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.

They had battled and bloodied one another, they had kept secrets, broken hearts, lied, betrayed, exiled, they had walked away, said goodbye and sworn it was forever, and somehow, every time, they had mended, they had forgiven, they had survived. Some mistakes could never be fixed - some, but not all. Some people can't be driven away, no matter how hard you try. Some friendships won't break.

When they finished laughing they were on their way to being not just friends, but the dearest of friends, the sort of friends whose lives are shaped by the friendship.

She recognized that that is how friendships begin: one person reveals a moment of strangeness, and the other person decides just to listen and not exploit it.

There was no satisfying explanation for why Andrew [Haswell Green] and Samuel [Tilden] found themselves falling into a friendship. It was simply a matter of attraction, and instinct, and need, as it always is. Those factors and a hundred tiny, meaningless conversations that gradually accumulated into layers of familiarity.

They were the best sort of friends. The sort everyone hopes for but no one deserves, least of all me.

But Jean-Marc was telling the truth: he did not remember. Besides, he was not even trying to search his memory. He was thinking about something else: this is the real and the only reason for friendship: to provide a mirror so the other person can contemplate his image from the past, which, without the eternal blah-blah of memories between pals, would long ago have disappeared.

[Lewis had a] determined impersonality towards all except his very closest friends.

Fine, blood was thicker than water. But friendship, it struck Tibby, was thicker than both.

Horace and Morris and Dolores were friends – the greatest of friends, the truest of friends, the now-and-forever-I’m-yours sort of friends.

The only best friends she has ever really had, has ever wanted, could ever truly count on, is Elliott.

Friendship and Trust

That was the problem with all these butterfly-life-spanned girlfriends the scenarist brought with him. Driven by an impulse to become friends with everyone in the group, they asked too many personal questions and made too many personal comments, miserably failing to acknowledge that it was precisely the opposite, the lack of any serious and sincere interest in each other's privacy, which drew the group members to one another.

That kind of friendship doesn't just materialize at the end of the rainbow one morning in a soft-focus Hollywood haze. For it to last this long, and at such close quarters, some serious work had gone into it. Ask any ice-skater or ballet dancer or show jumper, anyone who lives by beautiful moving things: nothing takes as much work as effortlessness.

They were your friends?""Yes, they were my friends.""And they will leave you to suffer alone?""Now I see it.""And until this, were they friends you could trust?""I could trust them.""I see what you mean. You mean they were the kind of friends that a good man could choose, upright, hard-working, obeying the law?Tell me, were they such friends?And now they leave you alone?Did you not see it before?""I saw it.

Daniel kept being cruel to Roger, trying to make him go away, but Roger took it as honesty, implying profound friendship.

But friends didn't wipe other friends' memories.

They did not need to be close friends to work together. But they need to trust each other

Aden had only ever had one true friend, someone he knew would fight for him and with him regardless of whether he held any power or not. The others in the squad he trusted, but Vasic occupied an entirely different place in his life, until it was as if their blood was the same.

Those who decided to stick with her would be her true friends. The others would just be scenery.

(They) were thrown together in a friendship in spite of themselves.

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

All good friendships changed the people within them to a better version of themselves.

Their longstanding friendship turned into a deeper complicity in which there was no room for secrets, suspicion, or offense; they started from the principle that they would never hurt each other and that if this happened, it would be unintentional. They protected each other, which made their present hardships and the ghosts of the past bearable.

Friendships were so damn complicated, so bound with sharp edges that could jab a hole through you at any given point.

Friendship and Betrayal/Disappointment

Leeda knew friends never turned out to be what you expected. They came and went in waves, pulling away and coming back, leaving you feeling safe one minute and lost the next.

People change, they end up having nothing to say to each other, even if they were were best friends a year earlier.Amy in Tape.

In what twisted universe would a girl who's just been dumped still want to be friends with the boy who dumped her?

When friends stopped coming by, the days were upset by it, the redundancy of routine, once altered, needed to find new distractions, like puzzle pieces that need connection in order to form a whole.

Bob wasn't precisely a friend to me but... I was used to him. In a way he was family, the mouthy, annoying, irritable cousin who was always insulting you but who was definitely at Thanksgiving dinner. I had never considered the possibility that one day he might be something else.

The death of a friendship was usually slow and insidious, like the wearing away of a hillside after years of too much rain. A handful of misunderstandings, a season of miscommunication, the passing of time, and where once stood two women with a dozen years of memories and tears and conversation and laughter—where once stood two women closer than sisters—now stood two strangers.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

It was not perhaps the warmest friendship in the world, they would not send each other Christmas gift greetings, but they would not murder each other.

no longer the best of friends, if they ever were.

The Senate and the House are at loggerheads, and it would be virtually impossible for the leaders of those two houses to be close friends under those circumstances. It would lead to suspicions from their respective caucuses.

The friendly relations Belle enjoyed with her neighbors when she first came to La Porte were not fated to last. “No one was a friend of hers,” Louisa Diessl.

He didn’t come to make friends. He’s got fire in his eyes and a sword in his mouth and he came to cut the world in half.

Friendships were so damn complicated, so bound with sharp edges that could jab a hole through you at any given point.

Friendship and Change

Leeda knew friends never turned out to be what you expected. They came and went in waves, pulling away and coming back, leaving you feeling safe one minute and lost the next.

There were different categories of friends in Vince's opinion. Golf friends, work friends, old school friends, shipboard friends...but friend friends were harder to come by.

See, I was never a guy who had a whole heap of friends to belong to. Besides Greg Fienni, I never really had friends. I kind of stayed on my own. I hated it, but I was proud of it too. Cameron Wolfe needed no one. He didn't need to be amongst a pack. Not all of us roam like that. No, all he needed was his instincts. All he needed was himself.

People change, they end up having nothing to say to each other, even if they were were best friends a year earlier.Amy in Tape.

Still not sure about how easily he could be integrated into their posse, Trevor smiled in delighted relief at how tolerantly two of his close friends had received his new identity.

Cath wasn't trying to make new friends here. In some cases, she was actively trying not to make friends, though she usually stopped short of being rude.

I often think," she said, "that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems to forlorn without them.

The death of a friendship was usually slow and insidious, like the wearing away of a hillside after years of too much rain. A handful of misunderstandings, a season of miscommunication, the passing of time, and where once stood two women with a dozen years of memories and tears and conversation and laughter—where once stood two women closer than sisters—now stood two strangers.

Apart from them, Kitty had never been able to keep friends, not because she was disloyal in any way, she just felt that she hadn’t connected with anyone deeply since her school friends and so it was easy to drift away as life moved on, as college finished and as she found new jobs and created new friendships that lasted as long as the jobs had.

For sure they didn’t share sips from the same cup, give each other cheer-up hugs, or swear to keep real important things secret, which are all things that are done by a real 100 percent for real friend.

The friendly relations Belle enjoyed with her neighbors when she first came to La Porte were not fated to last. “No one was a friend of hers,” Louisa Diessl.

Getting staked had been a hard lesson in choosing one’s friends wisely.

Friendships were so damn complicated, so bound with sharp edges that could jab a hole through you at any given point.

Unexpected Friendships

They didn't get the friendships that formed, the community of people who shared in your same joy.

Caleb made for the stairs and did not slow down as the boy called out to him. There was an undeniable rush to the way he climbed to the second floor. He had no idea what he might find there, but knew that August, if he still had any care for him at all, would welcome the imposition. How else might he respond to someone so willing to fight for a friendship, someone who might put all social boundaries aside to risk the chance to say hello?

I bundled in my own blanket and reflected on the strange and somewhat unexpected friendship that was slowly developing between Davin and myself. It was clear to me that he needed a friend, but for reasons unknown to me, thought that it was better for him to be alone.

Cassidy and I wouldn’t be friends if we met today. She’s blunt, even when she shouldn’t be. She’s cynical to the point of perpetual gloom. Her interest in culture begins and ends with fashion magazines—hence the gloom. She’s still the best friend I’ve ever had. We’re there for each other in a way no one else is. That’s what counts, not the music she listens to or the books she doesn’t read.

Ganix didn't need to make friends. Everyone was a friend!

She thought there was a lot of truth in the closest friendships being unconsummated romances.

But from that moment on, Hermione Granger became their friend. Because there are somethings you can't go through in life and become friends, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.

When I was writing the Raven Boys, I had a sticky on my computer that told me to remember that the worst thing that could happen was that they could stop being friends.

Peter never wore underwear, Connie had complained, and the fact grew in my mind, making me nauseous in a not unpleasant way. The sleepy crease of his eyes from his permanent high. Connie paled in comparison: I didn't really believe that friendship could be an end in itself, not just the background fuzz to the dramatics of boys loving you or not loving you.

Even without much experience in friendships, the lonely girl and the castaway boy filled the time as two friends should.

She never thought she was good at making friends. But maybe she was just trying to be friends with the wrong people.

But Luchino wanted to make the point, immediately, that he was the master on the set. And after became very, very close friends.

It was an odd friendship, but the oddnesses of friendships are a frequent guarantee of their lasting texture.

Friendship and Sacrifice/Support

...that's what friends did. Let each other off the hook when they didn't want to talk.

She didn't need friends; she needed to be a bigger bitch.Chubby Chaser, 11/21/14. Available for preorder on Amazon.

Bert knows it would take more than a little row to get between us. Because friends like us, like Bert and me, we'll always be together.

But memory and time aren’t friends. They reject each other, they hurry in opposite directions, pulling the binding taut between them, threatening to snap.

Only a true friend would try to get someone she cared about to become princess over herself.

- My friend is dying. Can you cure him or not?Her voice caught on the word friend. Percy was a lot more than that. Even boyfriend really didn't cover it. They'd been through so much together, at this point Percy was part of her - sometimes a annoying part, sure, but definitely a part she could not live without.

I'll never understand the friendships Charlie has. Friendships where it doesn't take cash or hookups, or saying the right things to stay in the circle. No, Charlie's friendships are different. She tries to protect her people, and they in turn protect her. They accept each other's imperfections and support one another. My friends weren't like her friends, which makes me wonder if I ever had any at all.

Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.

He had lots of friends. The problem was he had the wrong friends.

It is amazing to me, now, how such wild imaginings and philosophies - inspired by a night charged with frights and calamities - made such perfectly good sense to Owen Meany and me, but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.

A good friendship – like this one with Hallie – endured. It sustained you during times of crisis. It was there for you during the good times and the bad.

All good friendships changed the people within them to a better version of themselves.

Their longstanding friendship turned into a deeper complicity in which there was no room for secrets, suspicion, or offense; they started from the principle that they would never hurt each other and that if this happened, it would be unintentional. They protected each other, which made their present hardships and the ghosts of the past bearable.

Friendship and Romance

From the moment they’d met, their friendship had been leading to more…

She thought there was a lot of truth in the closest friendships being unconsummated romances.

- My friend is dying. Can you cure him or not?Her voice caught on the word friend. Percy was a lot more than that. Even boyfriend really didn't cover it. They'd been through so much together, at this point Percy was part of her - sometimes a annoying part, sure, but definitely a part she could not live without.

Kyle is my best friend. Why would I risk screwing that up?""Mackenzie Catherine Dobson, have you learned nothing from romantic comedies? Do I need to make a trip to the video store?" Tess set her fork down and sighed. "'We're just friends' is the oldest plot device in the book. All it really means is that you're just friends until one of you get the balls to do something about all the unresolved tension.

You take this cold, remarkable, difficult, dangerous, borderline psychopath man, and you wonder what might have happened to him had he not met his best friend, a friend that no one would have put him with – this solid, dependable, brave, big-hearted war hero. I think people fall in love, not with Sherlock Holmes or with Dr. Watson, but with their friendship. I think it is the most famous friendship in fiction, without a doubt.

Jessica said they're still very good friends. And she said that she still talks to him every other day.

It wasn't just friendship. It was detailing feelings toward each other. There was some sexual involved in the letters.

Peter never wore underwear, Connie had complained, and the fact grew in my mind, making me nauseous in a not unpleasant way. The sleepy crease of his eyes from his permanent high. Connie paled in comparison: I didn’t really believe that friendship could be an end in itself, not just the background fuzz to the dramatics of boys loving you or not loving you.

All good friendships changed the people within them to a better version of themselves.

Friendships were so damn complicated, so bound with sharp edges that could jab a hole through you at any given point.

Horace and Morris and Dolores were friends – the greatest of friends, the truest of friends, the now-and-forever-I’m-yours sort of friends.

Friendship and Loneliness

But they were not friends. They were here to keep each other from spinning off alone into the dark matter of the universe.

See, I was never a guy who had a whole heap of friends to belong to. Besides Greg Fienni, I never really had friends. I kind of stayed on my own. I hated it, but I was proud of it too. Cameron Wolfe needed no one. He didn't need to be amongst a pack. Not all of us roam like that. No, all he needed was his instincts. All he needed was himself.

When friends stopped coming by, the days were upset by it, the redundancy of routine, once altered, needed to find new distractions, like puzzle pieces that need connection in order to form a whole.

Cath wasn't trying to make new friends here. In some cases, she was actively trying not to make friends, though she usually stopped short of being rude.

I often think," she said, "that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems to forlorn without them.

She never thought she was good at making friends. But maybe she was just trying to be friends with the wrong people.

Those who decided to stick with her would be her true friends. The others would just be scenery.

Apart from them, Kitty had never been able to keep friends, not because she was disloyal in any way, she just felt that she hadn’t connected with anyone deeply since her school friends and so it was easy to drift away as life moved on, as college finished and as she found new jobs and created new friendships that lasted as long as the jobs had.

For sure they didn’t share sips from the same cup, give each other cheer-up hugs, or swear to keep real important things secret, which are all things that are done by a real 100 percent for real friend.

Inside me there was a lot of best friendship that no one but Ginger was using.

You know I’m sitting right here,” I say. “She must really like you,” Maura says. Why do people have friends, whose idea were friends.

He didn’t come to make friends. He’s got fire in his eyes and a sword in his mouth and he came to cut the world in half.

The only best friends she has ever really had, has ever wanted, could ever truly count on, is Elliott.

Friendship Dynamics in Groups

That was the problem with all these butterfly-life-spanned girlfriends the scenarist brought with him. Driven by an impulse to become friends with everyone in the group, they asked too many personal questions and made too many personal comments, miserably failing to acknowledge that it was precisely the opposite, the lack of any serious and sincere interest in each other's privacy, which drew the group members to one another.

The bonds of friendship dwindle with age, Oliver. But a little blackmail lasts forever.

There were different categories of friends in Vince's opinion. Golf friends, work friends, old school friends, shipboard friends...but friend friends were harder to come by.

Jace sighed. "Shall we join our annoying, voyeuristic friends?""Unfortunately, that's the only kind of friends we have.

Reunion reveals friendship potential that haven't yet been emerged in the past.

The worst, the very worst requirement of friendship, in Eve Dallas's opinion, was sitting through an entire evening of childbirth classes.What went on there--the sights, the sounds, the assault on all the senses--turned the blood cold.

it was a point of good manners not to sit with a clique of the same friends all the time, and it meant that conversation at dinner had to be open and general rather than close and gossipy

Grace began to understand. "I have friends," she protested. "I have Zaddie.""Zaddie is just a little colored girl," Mary-Love pointed out. "It's all right to play with Zaddie, but she's not your real friend. John Robert can be your real little friend.

Lindsay has invited quite a few of her friends to the house to meet Pang.

The Eagles and the critics were not the best of friends.

Rose only hangs out with guys and psychopaths," said Mia. "Well," he said cheerfully, "since I'm both a psychopath and a guy, that would explain why we're such good friends.

I regret that this was necessary. This was not what I wanted - they are good friends and colleagues. But their roles are no longer needed.

I guess I thought that friendship was something you’d always need in one specific way, but it basically goes without saying that my friendship with Jax is nothing like mine with Maliah, and somehow not in a way that makes it worse... or even better. It’s just its own thing.

Other

What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.

Sometimes, Nathaniel, friends can be like nice boots on a drowning man.

Insane or not, Rudy was always destined to be Liesel's best friend. A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.

This was what friendship was: hugs, shopping, and some major lies.

Their friendship had made them so thankful for all they still had that they couldn't be sad for what they had lost.

Anyway, Reynie thought, if nothing else comes of this, at least you're making friends. That's more than you had yesterday.

Getting staked had been a hard lesson in choosing one's friends wisely.

"(Chloe) "She considers me a friend.” (Derek) “Does she? Huh. Never thought friendship started with one girl locking the other— bound and gagged— in a crawl space.”"

He was fully aware that it was already too late for simple friendship between them.

Paul and I don't see that much of each other these days, but I certainly still regard him as a friend.

No one goes through life thinking that they're the best friend of the lead character.

The two friends stood for a few moments on the windy street corner, not speaking a word, as two travelers, who have lost their way, sometimes stand and admit their perplexity in silence. (O Pioneers!)

Clearly they are enjoying a nice friendship together. But Nicole's personal life is her personal life and I have no further knowledge of their friendship.

Why can't we be friends now?" said the other, holding him affectionately. "It's what I want. It's what you want." But the horses didn't want it — they swerved apart: the earth didn't want it, sending up rocks through which riders must pass single file; the temple, the tank, the jail, the palace, the birds, the carrion, the Guest House, that came into view as they emerged from the gap and saw Mau beneath: they didn't want it, they said in their hundred voices "No, not yet," and the sky said "No, not there.

Some had rather lose their friend then their Jest.

They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.

Once they got the news that it was a close friend, somebody they had played on a team with, I think there's going to be a need for them to come together, for them to talk about it, for them to express what it is that they're feeling.

It's almost like closure. Tom (Moody Sr.) is a friend of mine, and I did it out of respect for him.

While 'Friends' was about a 20-something population and what they were going through, they were also dealing with issues with their family.

'Friends' started because Rachel left her husband at the altar. This likability factor is just so stupid to me. It's the same thing as 'wish-fulfillment,' which is a big word you hear in a lot of Hollywood rooms. It basically means that people want to see other people living a life they can't lead, and I don't buy that. I think that's not true.

'Friends' was a magical thing, and no one's going to ever have anything like that again.

How many films are there about friendships between teenagers? And how many projects are there dealing with friendships among adults? True friendships - really dealing with the intimacy behind what happened then, and how long you've known each other, and the wounds that haven't healed. That's what [About Alex] film is about.

Anacharsis coming to Athens, knocked at Solon's door, and told him that he, being a stranger, was come to be his guest, and contract a friendship with him; and Solon replying, "It is better to make friends at home," Anacharsis replied, "Then you that are at home make friendship with me.

The worst, the very worst requirement of friendship, in Eve Dallas's opinion, was sitting through an entire evening of childbirth classes. What went on there--the sights, the sounds, the assault on all the senses--turned the blood cold.

Montalbano felt moved. This was real friendship, Sicilian friendship, the kind based on intuition, on what was left unsaid. With a true friend, one never needs to ask, because the other understands on his own accordingly.

So friends care about each other and their problems. That was something I’d have to remember to fake.

They didn’t get the friendships that formed, the community of people who shared in your same joy.

I met Auden late in his life and mine – at an age when the easy knowledgeable intimacy of friendships concluded in one’s youth can no longer be attained, because not enough life is left, or expected to be left, to share with one another. Thus, we were very good friends but not intimate friends.

Harry and Hermione are very platonic friends. But I won’t answer for anyone else, nudge-nudge wink-wink!

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