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the relationships that make these up, are implicit social contracts.
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
friends, view their friends as having more similar attitudes to them, but consider family (but not distant kin) as being more representative of their ‘real community’ than their friends are.
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
That is the quality of drunkards, they have a lot of friends. Because what men find most endearing in other men are their tragic flaws. That is why alcoholics never run out of friends.
Manu Joseph • The Illicit Happiness Of Other People
Perhaps we ought not to have shared so much, but it was very comforting. “I wish I had a sister,” she said to me one day. “And if I did, that person would be you.”
Margaret Atwood • The Testaments: The Sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale
If you want to make someone your real friend, ask them for a favor.
Amanda Palmer • The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help
we tend to view our in-laws as though they were one step less closely related to us than the equivalent member of our biological family
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
Jean • My best friend and my witness
Marian offered her volunteer services as a surrogate grandma.
Kat Vellos • We Should Get Together: The Secret to Cultivating Better Friendships
these relationships are all about a sense of obligation and the exchange of favours