Why We Broke Up Friendship Quotes

"Watching you go, Al watching you go, watching Al watching you go, and realizing I had to say you were a jerk to do that and not being able to make those words work." (11.68)

We'd agreed, with more debate and diplomacy than that Nigel Krath's seven-hour miniseries on Cardinal Richelieu, that we'd have an early dinner or a post-coffee, post-practice snack or whatever you call it when it's sunset and you're really supposed to be home but instead you're having waffle-iron grilled cheeses and scalding watery tomato soup at a place of neutral territory. (12.2)

Or was I ashamed of my friends? Was that it, Min? I said you had practice and they said that was no excuse and I said of course it was and Lauren said maybe if we didn't invite you, like with Al's party, maybe then you'd show up. (12.2)

"I'm free," Al admitted. "I have nothing, I'm the usual loser."

"You just wanted to make me suffer."

"What's the use of friendship?" he said, our version of What are friends for? (22.25 – 22.27)

I had a sudden question in my head there wasn't room for, a question about you, Ed. Al had just said it, You can tell me anything, and was waiting for me to say something…. But I couldn't ask it. […] My question didn't belong in Al's loyal kitchen with my friend wiping his hand on the towel tucked into his belt like always. (22.50)

This is how we were, Ed, me and Al. You never got it and I never really told you how it was, old married couple, Al's mom called it once and just laughed when Al said, "Well, Mamma, you should know." (22.65)

Ed, I'll tell you what's the use of friendship, because we never were friends. The use is racing off into the night, is what the use is. Rolling down the windows, the rained-out air in our faces all the way to the shop. The use is the good talking, and the not talking as we got there. (22.162)

I stood alone with it in my hands in Green Mountain Hardware, quiet and lonely and trying to conjure Al beside me so I could ask him things only he could know. (27.1)

"And that's not even counting the Al drama. Min, I really wish you guys would, you know, kiss and make up."

"He knows where to find me," I said.

"Yeah," she said sharply. "Basketball practice."

"He's my boyfriend," I said. "That's what he does."

"That and take money from my purse." (31.8-31.12)

"I do, Min, but Annette, you know, she lives right nearby. And you know we've stayed friends. I mean, you have guy friends, you know how it is, and I've never given you a hard time about it" (40.65)