“Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.”
“It's true: lives do drift apart for no obvious reason. We're all busy people,we can't spend our time simply trying to stay in touch. The test of a friendship is if it can weather these inevitable gaps.”
“Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies … and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia.”
“Even the best of friends need time apart.”
“They got married and, as humans do, began to drift apart.”
“Friendships sail like any other ship... left unattended, it will drift away”