“Nobody can avoid falling in love. They might want to deny it, but friendship is probably the most common form of love.”

“I'm unhappy. I don't want to fall in love with you. It'll hurt far too much when it's over”

“I don't think I'm the type who falls in love. She was a friend. And we had good sex.”

“Friendship- my definition- is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don't have trust, the friendship will crumble.”

“Her absence had felt like torture--almost a form of personal punishment. He had nobody to discuss his feelings with, and for the first time he realised with appalling clarity what a destructive hold she had over him.”

“their relationship was built on friendship, and in matters of friendship he was boundlessly loyal. It was a relationship that would survive the harshest test.”

“Cortez looked like someone newly in love, the way only twenty-four-year-olds can look.”