A good friend is my nearest relation.

At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.

My friend through many dangers. My lover who had healed my broken and weary soul. My mate who had waited for me against all hope, despite all odds.

She was a friend to me when I needed one.
Wasn't for her I don't know what I'd done.
She gave me back something that was missing in me.
She could of turned out to be almost anyone,
Almost anyone--
With the possible exception
Of who I wanted her to be.

In a word, in adversity she was the best of comforters, in good fortune the most troublesome of friends...

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.

Then there were Cassidy and Allison, her best friends. She knew she could count on them to support her, at least in their own ways. But either of them, when faced with something that might be bearing down on her like a freight train—how rational and lucid would they be?

At some point in the past, this person was (arguably) your best friend.

A real friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out

Because you were my first friend here. You listened to me.

My own soul is my most faithful friend. My own heart, my truest confidant.

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who have helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

When the worst thing that can happen to you does, I try to be a friend.

And she was good to me: strong, fun, and fiercely loyal. And if I didn't have many other friends because of her-most girls were intimidated by her looks, or thought she was too pushy, or just flat-out feared for their boyfriends-it never bothered me. I never missed having a wide, thick circle of girlfriends: Rina was more than enough. We were comfortable with each other's flaws and weaknesses, so we stuck together and kept to ourselves.