By Ada Kohli
Published Aug 04, 2023

Hindustan Times
Lifestyle

8 friendship quotes from famous books

International Friendships Day is celebrated on the first Sunday of August every year

Here are a few quotes from famous books that you can share with your friends to express your love and gratitude for them this Friendships Day

"We didn’t talk about anything heavy or light. We were just there together. And that was enough"

- Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen”

- A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“Wasn’t friendship its own miracle, the finding of another person who made the entire lonely world seem somehow less lonely?” 

- Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

 “Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don’t have to say anything”

- Khaled Hosseini, Kite Runner

“A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship”

- Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends”

- Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike”

- Maya Angelou, I Shall Not Be Moved

"Friendship... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”

- C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves