“[Gonturan] is a true friend, but a friend with thoughts of her own, and the thoughts of others are dangerous.”

“But as you age, you lose other, even more important things, like friends-hopefully only bad friends, who maybe weren't as good for you as you once thought. With luck, you'll be able to hang on to your true friends, the ones who were always there for you....even when you thought they weren't.Because friends like that are more precious then all the tiaras in the world”

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

“Of the last two friends of yours who had the modern mind; one thought it wrong to eat fishes and the other thought it right to eat men...”

“Thought we were supposed to be friends? Best friends?”“We are, Sev.”

“So she was on her own, Kate thought, and instilled all the friendly helpfulness she could into her next question. “Excuse me, but are you the bad company young Mr. Scott has got into?”