“Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.”

“One friend is always sacrificed to the other in friendship.”

“Clare wasn't worried anymore about their being mean to each other. She imagined that someday she'd be part of a friendship in which she and the friend thought so highly of each other and were so sure of this that they could say anything.”

“Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love, and to be loved, is the greatest happiness of existence. ”

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

“He was unique to her among men because he’s impressed her as being not her admirer her superior. In some mysterious way he was becoming a part of her conscience as one woman who’s nature is an object of reverential belief may become a new conscience to a man.”