My Commonplace Book

“We are friends with the people we do things with, as much as we are with people we resemble.” – Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point

“I was raised among books making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.” – Carlos Ruis Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind.

“I learned as I grew up, you’ll find that being a friend is to like a person for who they are, even the parts you don’t understand. The reasons you like them makes the things you don’t understand unimportant. You don’t have to understand, or do the same, or live their lives for them. If you truly care for them, then you want them to be who you are; that was why you liked them in the first place.” – Terry Goodkind, Blood of the Fold