"All friends were new at some point. What a no-new-friends policy truly points to is a rising risk aversion as we age that can, in the end, be socially crippling."
"I’ve come to better appreciate that there are stages and levels of friendships, that they exist as a dynamic constellation... all holding their own value in your life and you in theirs."
"We must continuously allow people into our lives, with caution and care, of course, but in nonetheless. We must also learn to let them out."
"Their minor disagreements and petty animosities have melted away. They are the survivors, those whom life has chosen and wisdom rewarded."
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