And so with trust and hope, and yet full of fear, we go eastward to meet our friends—and him—whom Madam Mina tell me that she know are coming to meet us. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

And when I go to work the next day, my single-browed friend trailing faithfully behind me, I discover that I am being deported. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I miss my friends from my old school, the ones who promised to keep in touch after I moved. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Accustomed to their mother’s long workdays and their father’s extended absences, they missed Dorothy, but her departure didn’t interrupt their high-spirited lives replete with family, friends, and school. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Howard was helping Miss Rhonda take the Bible storybooks back inside the church, and Audrey was busy being friends with everybody but me. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

He belonged somewhere else, with his other friends. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have any friends in Eden Park. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

As we got closer, we saw about forty of Vanessa’s friends sitting in next to a bulldozer. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The chubby one raised his hands as if to say, You’re on your own, my friend. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“My friend said I could use his car. One of the doors doesn’t open, but at least I got wheels.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

But on this night, surrounded by friends and empowered by the confessional tone of the speech, he can’t help himself. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“But my dear Elizabeth,” she added, “what sort of girl is Miss King? I should be sorry to think our friend mercenary.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

And she would put her arm around Cathy’s waist, and Cathy would put her arm around Alice’s waist, and they would walk away—best friends—and tiny as the head of a pin. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

When we got home, few of our friends would be left to greet us. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew of the many stories of friends and relatives who, in the harsh glare of life abroad, became unreliable, even hostile, versions of their former selves. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I want you to be a good friend to Peach today,” Mama said. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted them to make friends, real friends—to find kids who liked them for reasons other than that they were Barack Obama’s daughters. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Her friends didn’t gather as early as mine. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

After the news of Josie’s friend, I had left the apartment in Queens because it didn’t feel right for me to stay there. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

He drew little pictures, and once he made a sketch of his friend to amuse him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“But someone’s kid is missing, a friend of the family.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Then, one evening after work, our friend from the airport, the black Mr. Burns, came by. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

So what does the world do with a twelve-year-old girl without family and a network of close friends? Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I was also worried, like his friends in Los Angeles, that he was being impulsive and burning bridges without good reason. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

They were comparing, writing, and visiting museums with friends. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Frustrated and suffocated by the confines of the domestic sphere, Stanton joyfully accepted an invitation to tea with friends in a nearby town. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Having similar aspirations and interests, you might assume that my great-great-great-grandfather and Poe would be fast friends. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

But I'm sure it wasn't, just because Jazz never went a night without gossiping and giggling with one of her friends. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Like most events in his life, it is another excuse for his parents to throw a party for their Bengali friends. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Rocky wasn’t even there, because he ate most of his evening meals at Paguate with his girl friend’s family. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Right, right. Getting ahead of myself. Well, go ahead, Tristan, get your little friend’s stories and let’s shut this raiding party down. You and I got some planning to do.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“My friends...I don’t want to leave them.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

On June 2, 2006, the church was filled with our new American friends and with Lost Boys and Girls from all over North America. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, yes, my young friend. I can make you live on forever.” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Foster families and welfare men, and so-called friends and schoolmates. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hey, I think it’s fine, and when I was in high school I didn’t even have two friends as close and loyal as Dill and Travis. I can see it on those guys’ faces. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Soon Bull began to work the bones of the boy’s right hand against each other, applying more and more pressure, until the boy began to scream for his friends to pull Bull off. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, as I didn't say anything, she added, "She says she's an old friend of yours. She lives next door. Why don't you pay her a visit?" The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The same table I sat at every day with my two friends Dre Anderson and Red Griffin. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“Haven’t you any men friends who could help you?” asked Sissy. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now it’s going to take all he’s got to keep Peeta alive in an arena full of his old friends, and he’ll probably fail. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I do not deal in common currency. For this I shall require one secret withheld from a friend.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The trees and hills have become our friends, helping us stay hidden from the millions of city eyes. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Being the handy friend she is, she twists herself to smack me with her laptop bag. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“He doesn’t want me to be friends with you,” I said. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“She sent her daughter a friend request,” Molly tells Jack. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Ruby,” Clancy said quietly, with all of the familiarity of the kid I had thought was my friend. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to take the patron with me, friends,” he said slowly during a pause in the singing. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, stop it! It’s not like you’re not hanging out with a new friend these days.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“For heaven’s sake, madam, speak lower. What advantage can it be for you to offend Mr. Darcy? You will never recommend yourself to his friend by so doing!” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

All of his efforts and money were used to keep his friend out of jail because of such charges as theft, committing public indecencies, and assault and battery. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

And now the thoughts rush in: adjusting the blue prints, prepping the trailer bed, lounging on the finished deck with my friends while sipping lemonade from fancy glasses. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

But as I watch her with Tressa, I accept that a friend who changes as much as the weather is no friend at all. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Some friends and allies, including Howard Hiatt, felt Farmer should be spending more of his time on worldwide health campaigns, much less in clinical practice. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I’m going to see a movie with my friends this afternoon, but I have the morning to walk. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

When I got bored, I called up old friends. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They live close to old friends from Cuba, and don’t speak English and don’t speak Yiddish like Baba and Zeide. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

They joined their own neighborhood pool and tennis clubs and were making drinking friends with Americans. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Percy,” Chiron said, “we didn’t want to tell you until you returned to camp. You needed a break with your . . . mortal friends.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

And as long as I still had Sahil and my new friends, what did I care what Maddie or the others thought? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

You could limit access to your channel so that only your friends could watch, or you could charge viewers by the hour to access your POV. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I let him in, his friend following, and we stand awkwardly in the empty hall. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I swam toward them, knowing that I might not have the strength to pull my friends out. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Anthony described Stanton’s physical decline in a letter to a friend, writing that it was a pity “that such mental powers must be hampered with such a clumsy body.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Joe couldn’t do what he most wanted to do, to take Joyce out to the swank places downtown that many of her friends frequented. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

For these last thirty-five days we could be friends, and that would have to be enough. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

All of the house occupants seemed to scream at once, and their bodies swarmed in, pressing against Mark and his friends. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

We might go on and on playing draughts and things, he might change, we might be friends. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Wes and Woody were soon joined by their friend White Boy. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“Your gentleman friend paid for this round and the next,” she said. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

So angry, she wouldn’t be my friend anymore. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

He gets to laugh with his friends on the phone. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth and her friend are a total mismatch. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I envisioned all my relatives and friends being there for me whenever I returned. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

They had beat every odd, they had stuck by one another, and most important of all, they had become friends. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Fuchsia might have been the only girl willing to be friends with me when I moved back to town in fifth grade, but she doesn’t always make it easy. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

He was someone I could easily be friends with. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Then the pain in his legs and in his chest would stop, and he wouldn’t have to ever worry about himself or his mother or his friends anymore. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I wanted to qualify for the National Collegiate Fencing Championships or the NCAAs and I wanted to spend time with my friends. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Brian and I had gone swimming once, but Ernie Goad and his friends were there, and they started telling everybody that we Wallses lived in garbage and would stink up the pool water something awful. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I felt cool telling my friends that I was taking oral contraceptives. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Ashton, you’re, like, one of my best friends, you know that, right? Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Hello, Ida?” the old lady speaks loudly into her phone, and her friend is just as loud. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

They were married in an aspen grove on a clear July day, and afterward they and all their friends and relatives had a wedding supper on the banks of the river. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Tally opened her eyes and saw that her friend was smiling. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I walked over to my friend Josh’s house, but he wasn’t home. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

“I have eaten too much, as ever, and all White Harbor knows my bowels are bad. My friends of Frey will not question a lengthy visit to the privy, we hope.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I must have seen a great number of old friends there, though I cannot recall precisely who. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He ate his double chocolate delight and tried to imagine that he and his friends were just chilling on a vacation. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He saw himself walking the streets of Harlem, discussing the merits of Mark Twain with his American friends, gazing at Mount Rushmore. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I spoke French and English with my parents, but was still fluent in the language of my childhood friends. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

In 1901, the company had sent Miss Love and her best friend out to a big store in Texas. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He may choose at length to tell it to his brother, or his wife, or his friend, yet even those few will never use it where any third person may hear it. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“One of my friends, her son goes to a school on the mainland and do you know, they have only five computers in the whole school. Only five!” the other woman said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

My friends and I were in high spirits because exams were finally over and our class was about to go on our first field trip in years. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“You laying there in that bed without a dime or a friend to your name having done all the dirt you did in this town and you still expect folks to love you?” Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Sisters clung to sisters, friends to friends, as we awaited our fate. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“From now on,” Nately told his friends, “I think you fellows ought to stop running around with her friends and settle down.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

No Do you have any friends or members of your family that can get you an attorney? The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

April 27—I’ve made friends with some of the boys at the Campus Bowl. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Trujillo was his friend and so he knew all about this secret. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As time went on, and the months and years came and went, he was never without friends. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

If they couldn’t be friends, she thought, her heart might break. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“That shawl must not come off,” Mami keeps reminding Lucinda, who is disgusted enough to roll her eyes at me in the absence of a friend her own age. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

There are no Hallmark cards for breaking up with friends. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I hope you’ve learned your lesson,” he said brightly and then, in Greek, added: “Important news, my friend.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Henry sides with my friends who oppose me in all that is dearest in my heart,” she wrote. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Can we be friends? I don’t want to fight anymore.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The friend charged him, his hands up before his face. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had male friends of both races, but I felt more like an accessory to enhance their coolness factor than a pretty girl they could ask out on a date. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I nod, grateful to have made a few new friends. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

While the Yoshotos were still in the kitchen, I slipped downstairs and telephoned the Windsor Hotel—which Bobby’s friend, Mrs. X, had recommended to me before I’d left New York. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Every day, our friends Rudy and Pilar sent over a hot meal, and after they ate, the men were allowed to walk around in the prison yard for a half hour. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her weekends home were always divided between visits with her high school friends and our cousins and other relatives. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“The problem with you, my friend, is you love too easily and too much. Anybody could see the girl was a fake, looking for the next bigger thing,” Obinze told him. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“No one has called me friend in a long time,” the assassin said. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Your friend was correct in thinking that the map and the chart listed all of our safe houses,” she says. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“If you’re interested in wild foods, speak with my friend Sam here. He’s an expert.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe that was the thing I needed most, for my friends to understand. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure she was trying to make herself feel better. What can I say, Jupes? Despite your preferences, these girls can’t seem to handle the fact that I have a gorgeous female best friend.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

There was, after all, a trail of prostrating visitors to Chief’s house, relatives and friends bringing other relatives and friends, their pockets full of requests and appeals. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I put my chin on top of Pi’s head so I don’t have to look at my friends. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, spurred by her irrepressible enthusiasm, she invited friends and colleagues to view her precious Surinam sketches and specimens, which she had “dried and well displayed in boxes where they can be seen by all.” The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Bayonet, friend. The men of the Ninety-second used bayonets. Belleau Wood glittered with them. Fairly glittered.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I had more friends than I do fingers. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I said goodbye to my new friend and wished him the best. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Doha was sitting on the wooden porch of his house with his sister, eating corn, when his friend Gunwoo ran into their courtyard in tears. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

They went to her tent, and the boy gave his friend enough gold to buy a sheep. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

To see them all the way out here soothes him, as though he has turned and found an old friend floating beside him in the middle of the sea. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Ever since the sun began to sink the mist before his eyes had darkened, and he felt that a shadow was coming between him and the faces of his friends. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Cora declined to join her friend in her derision. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“You used to be a friend, but now you stink as a friend! I came here to give you a second chance and you make me smell the crotch of an old book.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Thank you, Constance, my good and faithful friend,” the Abbot murmured. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He became handsome in your eyes, and you thought him your best friend. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“How can it hurt to have a friend?” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

He had not put on weight like most of his other friends now living abroad, didn’t look different from the last time Obinze had seen him in Nsukka. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

You will be betrayed by one who calls you a friend. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s showtime, old friend. If that sphere doesn’t come down like you promised, this is going to be pretty embarrassing.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

His friends and family weren’t so sure about the whole thing. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

One had been stricken by polio, keeping up with his friends by agilely dragging forward with his hands while his ruined legs trailed behind. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I have always thought you would have made a first-rate Lord Chancellor,” he told his friend, and “I now appeal to you as Lord Chancellor!’ Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those terrible Germans have oppressed and threatened us for so long that the thought of friends and salvation means everything to us! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He was tired of being shot at and having to attend the funerals of his friends. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

In middle school she hardly let me spend the night at any friends’ houses, even if she’d met their parents. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Pop Pop and his new friend are cutting up in the back of the church, having a good ole time. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Stragglers took off their shoes and said their Salaams to friends and hurried inside. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

“A friend of ours brought us some provisions,” Olanna said, holding out the bag of salt. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

From that day to this, Halina Wind’s son has been one of my best friends. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later, I talked about a sick grandmother, and her sick, wealthy friends who were willing to pay extra money for extra meat. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“In fact, they were fast friends—which was part of the problem. However, this story is less about them, and more about their great Nemesi.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Now, I’m her virgin friend who doesn’t get it. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She tried to smile, but it felt more like she was baring her teeth at her friend, a warning signal to stay away. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t care and I’m put into that class with Malachy and I know all his friends are there sneering at me because I was put back. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Not alone, no. Athena watched over me, guided me toward help. I made a couple of unexpected friends who took care of me, for a short time, anyway.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Piper was happy to see Annabeth with a sparkle in her eyes, because Piper had never had a better friend. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I lifted my face to meet my good friend’s. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Silly creatures, to put such thoughts into my head. I won’t care for it, or let it change me a bit,” thought Meg, and rustled across the room to shake hands with her friend. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our friend Brenda stands listening, books clutched against her broad, broad chest, hair shining pink and red. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

If the girls and I are lunch friends now, we’re probably on track for tasteful matching BFF tattoos by next week. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

‘No other right choice, maybe, but... a friend of mine, Luke. His mom . . . similar problem. He didn’t handle it as well.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. He was still alive when Crazy Horse found him. He held his friend in his arms until he died. Everyone who saw that said Crazy Horse cried like a baby.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

“I live in a movie theater, with all my friends.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You just stay away from the river, my friend,” he said. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Once I realized that the women on my own team were not going to be my friends, I sought companionship elsewhere when I was on the road. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Wynn, my dad, and my mom were all friends in high school, and he’d been her manager since they were both teenagers. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“My friend Willie-Jay used to talk about it. He used to say that all crimes were only ‘varieties of theft.’ In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl who had been talking to me raised her hand without turning away from her friend. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

They scrambled clumsily back down through the weeds and ferns, with Nailer’s dad’s friends all making comments. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe even find their friend if he’s still alive. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

No one will need a friend except me. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I weaned him off me by spending half an hour at a time out of his presence, then an afternoon, and finally days away once he was comfortable with his new friends. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

You don't turn and wave to any of your friends. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seven was a bit surprised that Valley hadn’t been sorted into Moth House, but it was probably the dependable friend part. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I told him if he didn’t want to be just friends, fine with me, I wasn’t scared of him. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Gore sisters were my best friends and also a little bit my idols. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And because that unlikely monarch had himself followed his heart when he chose his queen, he allowed his sons to have their way, making bitter enemies where he might have had fast friends. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“We want to ask you for a favor, Tris Prior. We’re going to have a meeting tomorrow night, at midnight. We want you to bring your Dauntless friends.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what she’s talking about, only that after being friends with him my whole life, I am supposed to leave Mr. Sheep Sheep to die. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Harry leaned up against one of the golden pillars and watched Ginny, who was now dancing with Fred and George’s friend Lee Jordan, trying not to feel resentful about the promise he had given Ron. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Oh, Jesus, you be my friend Right, oh yeah, right up till the end. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It pained my insides to see, once again, the twisted, scowling white faces with open mouths jeering, clustered about my friend’s head like bouquets of grotesque flowers. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was the friend to whom he told all that was in his heart. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She kicked and screamed, desperate to save her blind friend. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

What do you call a place with friends and teachers and libraries and book club and math club and debate club and any other kind of club and after-school activities and endless possibilities? Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

No kids ran along the streets playing with their friends. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I cranked up a grin while I rammed my elbow back into my best friend’s chest. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Even if Anise doesn’t like Kalinda or any other Rastafarian, it’s clear that everyone in this school will soon want to be Kalinda’s friend, and so Anise must get to her first. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Shhhh. It’s all right. I’m your friend. And see over there? His name is Thomas. He’s your friend too.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father had helped him once when he was in trouble and he’d been our friend ever since. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rapped on the metal frame of my best friend’s front screen door. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Fred and Leon and Father’s other friends had been out at the demonstration. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

My long-time friend and associate, Elizabeth Otis, has been going to Deer Isle every year. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Booth saw no one, neither friends nor pursuers, behind him. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

On this point, Stanton thought Anthony was being unreasonable, and the two friends quarreled. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“No it’s not. If you are just watching a movie, there’s no reason why the kids can’t tag along. I’m sure your friends will understand. End of story.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The next day Raj drove the friend to JFK. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

When the notice arrived that my work had been accepted, I foolishly phoned my friends with the news. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

It amazes me how easy it is to tune out everything else—thoughts of war on Abnegation, Tobias, Caleb, my parents, my friends, my new faction fade away. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“I had an English friend at college who really went for colored girls.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the end, in New York, Bobby Joe’s friend simply up and split with the smack, leaving Bobby Joe high, dry, and very strung out. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he patted me on the shoulder, like he was dusting me off, and took off after his friends. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps he does not want to be friends with yon until he knows what you are like. With owls, it is never easy-come and easy-go.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, sometimes, I smoked opium with some white friends, actors who lived downtown. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mama! He just wants to be my friend.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

No matter what, we would always be friends. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

As Gilgamesh and Enkidu then become friends, and embark on a journey, my mind is transported out of the ship’s pod to the forests, oceans, and great deserts they travel to. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She was desperately wishing she could go out to the marketplace and look for her friends when there was a knocking on her front gate. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The story did spill out when he talked to Eugene Williams’s mother as they grieved together at the funeral of his drowned friend. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I wanted to tell Kiowa that he'd been a great friend, the very best, but all I could do was slap hands with the water. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I left home with Junior, my older brother, and our friend Talloi, both a year older than I, to go to the town of Mattru Jong, to participate in our friends’ talent show. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Oppenheimer, who was Jewish, still had family in Germany, as well as Jewish friends from his student days. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes reminded me of that seven-year-old girl’s in the alley—angry, scared, desperate for a friend. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Like we was old knockabout friends of the streets. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

I said to him, ‘Come on, doggie— let’s be friends. Let’s not be enemies any more. I’m not mad.’ Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now Fornatee, his other close friend on the team, hadn’t shown up for the new round of tryouts. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

He was still trying to convince my mom that the move away from the country of our birth, away from all our friends and family, would be worth it in the end. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

As the year passed his friend seemed to grow larger in his mind, and his face looked out in a very grave and subtle way from the darkness at night. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

And so, like a woman, Fortune is always the friend of young men, for they are less cautious, more ferocious, and command her with more audacity. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I have done myself the honour of counting you one trusting friend, and such endorsement is dear to me.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

It is for this reason that I was imagining Russell Quitman and his friend Neil as zombies, wreaking havoc on Lily and killing men, women, and children. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

When I was about ten years old, I was outside of our church with my friends, one of whom had brought a visiting relative to the service. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Beneath it all, he was worried that perhaps the elfin knights had come to collect his friend—and that Spurge hadn’t even bothered to say good-bye. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

She did not trust monks and she did not trust giants, and the last time she’d seen a giant monk, her friend Theresa had been taken away to be burned at the stake. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

In the final days of the war, he was sent on patrol duties and gave the vase to a friend for safekeeping. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She warned me not to come home expecting to have the things my friends possessed. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And on a cold Sunday afternoon, he was joined in his home by a small group of friends and family for a “living funeral.” Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She touched on silver lunch trucks and designer labels and enchanted places, and when she said her best friend gave her pet rat a ride on his shoulder, tears came to my eyes. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

He and his friends had to hide in the back of a jeep and cover themselves with blankets during the ride home. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

It did not occur to me that the music was not for me but to impress the Mehtas’ friends. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

‘No longer, hapless one, may I behold yon day-star’s sacred eye; but for my fate no tear is shed, no . . . no . . .’ ” “ ‘No friend makes moan.’ Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

"It shall be tried," said the King: and then to one of the attendants, "Send for the prisoner, friend." The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

There was no way to describe to his friends what he had experienced there in the Annex room. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“This is my time. You can stay or you can go, and if you have an issue with that, feel free to take it up with Mom. She and her friends just came in.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t as if we were in Brooklyn, where the candy store, the record shop, and my best friend were around the corner. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

He rubbed his friend’s back, trying to comfort him. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

At the crossroads over the bridge he met two friends and the three of them walked to school together, making ridiculous strides and being rather silly. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her friend the able seaman was nearby, and he paused as he adjusted the canvas cover of the forward hatch to look out at the little girl’s daemon skimming and leaping with the dolphins. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Turning to him for comfort? So it’s someone who was friends with Lucy?” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

No woman, no friend, nobody to help steady his moods. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

If your friends were on a dangerous path, adults told you to cast them aside. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Oh, she and I were still friends, too, of course, but it wasn’t the same. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Blaine’s friends said it was and for them, ‘conservative’ is the worst insult you can get.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

But I was not a recluse; my ten days there were divided among ANC business, seeing old friends, and occasional jaunts as a conventional tourist. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He doesn’t belong here. And he is not my friend,” I said in a quiet voice cold with fear. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Cora was acquainted with this squeamish quality of Lovey’s, but she did not recognize the other side of her friend, whatever had overtaken the girl and made her run. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Gimli was lifted up behind his friend, and he clung to him, not much more at ease than Sam Gamgee in a boat. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

And then one day I heard my mother and her friend Lindo Jong both talking in a loud bragging tone of voice so others could hear. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

My wife and I give consent that our daughter Jenny Elizabeth Creighton, age 16, may marry Shadrach Yale, Union soldier, under the witness of a trusted friend, Editor Ross Milton. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moss asked once his friends gave him some breathing room. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Many ghosts in my family already haunt us, friend, so it helps me to know that you’re here. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Then he would call out our names, one by one, and introduce us to his many friends. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Many of the students were also getting taller, and I had a friend who was my exact height. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

His only other friend, Festus the dragon, had been reduced to a figurehead when his control disk had gotten destroyed on their last adventure. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The rest usually went out in “loans” to needy friends. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were talking about hanging one of my friends, or maybe even me. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were guests for meals almost as often as not, particularly business friends of Dad’s, since his office was in the house. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Your friend, Hazel Grace Lancaster She responded late that afternoon. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Babou said you went and played soccer. He said you made a friend.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Five years later, there are lots of things about me that I don’t think my friend understands. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“I am told that it was very sudden, Tree-ear. Your friend did not suffer.” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Even now, I had not connected the Sixteenth Street Church bombing and my friends’ deaths with my depression. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was the man Jonathan had tried to talk to, his father’s friend. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe you should work together. Science is always more fun with a friend.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

We disagree sometimes, but that is the way of all friends, no matter their species. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

And as soon as it started to move, the three friends all found that they still had millions of things to say. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My friend,” said Somkit, slapping Pong on the shoulder, “welcome to the Mud House, the finest burned-out tenement building in the whole city.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

"He claims he knew Lord Arryn well. Fast friends, they were." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Pranks we played; the ways friends could be cruel. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I did meet one of his friends once, though. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

A girl who worries if her best friend is mad at her. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

My friend Alex was standing nearby, and I stole a glance in her direction, looking for some guidance on what to expect, but she just shrugged. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The son of Nestor nodded, thinking swiftly how best he could oblige his friend. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

My friends know it; my principal knows it. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

She must have imagined her friends and family being shoved into one just like it. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t official, but Evelyn’s brothers let Michael walk to school with them, and they weren’t friends with him. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

He holds it up to show the girl and her friends. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

She had watched in helpless anguish while the flaming plane slowly glided to earth, knowing that her friend Zhenya was burning to death in the air. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

A student leaned to his friends and said, “I’ll convert. You think I can pass for Jewish?” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Does the other person need to call you a friend, too? The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Normally Fang would come over and my dad would throw on some mood music and my mom would whip up the eggnog and, while she was at it, a couple presents for my friend. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“I used to think my old friend here was immune to the charms of the fair sex,” said Hallgrimsson. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

When Fflewddur, endeavoring to make friends, put his finger into the cage, the gwythaint roused and slashed at him with its beak. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

I never brought up Evan on my own, because I worried it would be obvious that I liked him as more than a friend. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I recognized those tracks from the many winters in Piatra Neamț where I had stumbled out onto the frozen pond with a neighbor friend, dull blades tied to the bottoms of our shoes. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

When he was little, having his friends tell him their parents called him Half-Breed. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Then six weeks passed—the six weeks between Columbus Day and that 911 call—and I still had not caught the moodiness that was deepening in my friend. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

So later in the spring, when all the birds except the crows left the island and flew off to the north, I had these two for friends. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arthur Norris and I became close friends and during my last year he organized an exhibition of my photographs. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas finally snapped out of his daze and took off after his new— and only—friend. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“If we don’t catch this bird, you’re a dead man, and I’m just prayin’ that when you go to heaven you don’t bump into your long-lost feathered friend, Michael Jackson, up there. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

My friend Omar pedaled past us in his blue and khaki school uniform. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Mei-li and the cave and getting chased by the cops and Mong saying I was his best friend and then going swimming and me staring through the Mexican border at the kid selling clay suns. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

‘See how they run! There is Hasufel, and there is my friend Arod beside him! But there is another that strides ahead: a very great horse. I have not seen his like before.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

It occurred to her that Caroline ought to know that you didn’t pick your friends just because they were handy—or even lonely. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everybody said that they would be friends for ever, and .that they had only to send each other word if there was anything that anybody could do for anybody in return. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone would notice the salt, surely, and it’d be yet another reason why Caroline Murphy should not be allowed to have any friends. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Last week alone, she appeared in human form in a dozen different places, scaring the horns off some of my friends. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It seems that his only close friends were women who lived in towns around the mountain, yet even they could not recall much about him for the doctors who investigated his death. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were, according to the book, disowned by their families, snubbed by their friends and ostracized from every society. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

A reporter friend called my cell phone and told me the news, saying, “Don’t go to D.C., it’s not safe.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“You know, the best friend of the main character.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

All of this is for my own good, because they are my best friends and they want to help me improve. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

My friends stand behind me as I pull open the door and walk into a world where I immediately regret not having spent every minute possible. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I don’t wanna think about any of that, I just wanna get to Aimee and say goodbye to the Plutos as the friend they know I am, not the monster I was tonight. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Jamie is kind of sweet. But he needs to find some new friends.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Ah, it would seem the LEP have capitulated. Butler, supervise the delivery. But stay alert. Our fairy friends are not above trickery.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“This Russ—he’s special. His doing well here at Bellmont means a lot to me. His father was a close friend.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could be angrier with him if he were not so sweet-natured and content and surrounded by successful friends. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Better to hide in attics than to confront what lurked behind the faces of neighbors, friends, and family. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She often told him that her friends envied her, and said he behaved like a foreign husband, the way he made her breakfast on weekends and stayed home every night. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I have a friend that might be hurt.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

An shared an excited look with her two friends. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I thought he might already have heard—I’d started telling officer friends—and I expected stony silence. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is a small restaurant in my neighborhood that I love and that I’ve been telling my friends about for six months. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe during those three years you make friends you’ll love and respect forever, people who seem genuinely called to the bloodless intricacies of the law, but you yourself are not called. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Besides, I didn’t know of anyplace to stop; Father had friends along the way but they were strangers to me. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

My roommate has new zombie friends, and they all think I’m a freak. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

It was my first time out with Hannah and her friends. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I would walk with friends down to U Street and hang out at the local clubs. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He stands awkwardly at her side as she pauses to say hello to friends. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

In Bengali the word for pet name is daknam, meaning, literally, the name by which one is called, by friends, family, and other intimates, at home and in other private, unguarded moments. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had become friends with her, though she was quite a bit older than him. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

He looked to me and added, “Your highly skeptical friend may not believe me at all. That notwithstanding, it is true.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Her friend, a Popular Girl named Raven, saw me before she did. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

And she especially wanted to hear about friend stuff. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The old peasant, friend of Prince Hrothulf, whispers crossly: “In the old days they used to kill virgins. Religion is sick.” Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Caputo had seen friends shot and blown apart by land mines. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

For as long as I could remember, Roy Lee and I had been friends. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Jasmine and all his mother’s friends would be gone. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

A friend who knows being Black means all sorts of things. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

“You’re no better than Lázaro. You...just left me out in the world with no idea about all...all this. All my life...I have to get back. I have to help my friends.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

She didn’t want to die; she had so many dreams, so much she wanted to say to her friends, to her family. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The mud seemed to flow back faster than they could dig, but Kiowa was their friend and they kept at it anyway. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a long and hard struggle, as Gunwoo raged in a terrible anger, lashing out violently against Doha until he fell against his friend, exhausted. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Duck, be a fine fowl and boil some broth for our little friend here. He must be famished.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Grandpop got on the extension, and the two of them asked me about myself—about my school, about my friends. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She’s my friend Ron’s mother, she was meeting him off the Hog — off the school train at the end of last term.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I want to know your friends' names and what you do after school and all the things you haven't been telling me. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“A friend,” my mother said, and continued to stare at Lily. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The one next to me, with the iron glasses, said she taught English and her friend taught history and American government. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Before he could say anything else to reassure his friend, he noticed Sunjin shrinking, his unhappiness palpable. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Farmer had made friends with many of them during his tours of the prisons, and everyone knew the TB project couldn’t succeed without their support. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“You know,” she confided to Adams, “my friendship for that gentleman has lived through his faults and errors—to which I have not been blind. I believe he remains our friend.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

In a maze of colour and guy-ropes, of tent-pegs and tall spears, of chessplayers and sutlers, of tapestried interiors and of gold plate, Arthur of England had sat down to starve his friend. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Antony is first appealing to his crowd on a human level, as friends: establishing a bond of common feeling which he hopes to extend to Caesar. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Do you mean to say your best friend is not a Jew?” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In March, Rocco drove me to Houghton College so I could visit my friends. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

We each had our moment where we put another friend first, and at times it’s still a stain that’s hard to get rid of. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“This has been a tough summer for him with Quincy gone. Quincy is his best friend. He’s in Seattle with his grandparents.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Bobby’s aide or so-called second at the tournament was his close friend and fellow Jack Collins student William Lombardy, a portly twenty-year-old seminarian who was studying to become a Roman Catholic priest. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I look at the message again and wonder how many moms text their daughters’ best friends behind their backs like this. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“And this is a friend of the family.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I could have been friends with them all the time. I thought they didn’t want to be friends. It must have been me that was wrong.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My friends called. They were kind of...making fun of my whole situation.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Doha saw his friend Minki sitting in the waiting room with his older brother. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The word friend is turquoise with a glow of glossy red, but the word amigo is yellow with spots of brown, like an old banana. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

‘Cletus had been Quentyn’s dearest friend for half his life, a brother in all but blood. “Give your bride a kiss for me,” Cletus had whispered to him, just before he died. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, Tai and I have been friends since college. Tai was the one that suggested I come here to McClenton.” The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

But I had to admit Omi was right: I needed my friends. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

My friends heard me and roared with laughter. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She put up a hell of a fight, your friend,” Engel said. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Perhaps Vaughan, blind to his friend’s machinations, had mentioned the investigation that he had been pursuing and confided the location of the hideout containing his money and evidence. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“An anthropologist friend of mine tells me that they’ve got several others in the collection, as well as the ones on display. Some of them are very old indeed. Neanderthal, you know.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Dell Duke wasn't friend material because he was the wrong age and, female lemurs notwithstanding, we appeared to have absolutely nothing in common. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I thought about how I was going to try to deal with Lettie and her friends from now on. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I don’t need friends. And neither does Diana. We have each other.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Tats puffs, right in front of his friends. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“But a very exciting moment for my ignorant friend,” said Werfel. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

The aging children of distant cousins greeted me like long-lost friends. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Hanging out with my friends all the time, getting depressed, not doing homework...” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Anthony was a rail-thin six-footer with a goatee; his friend Ben Baily was a somewhat rounder and softer man with an easy laugh. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t going to let down her friends. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“To reduce disease, they tell us. Only in the most advanced cities. We live in a new Rome, my friend. An enlightened age!” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Andie, the main character, had two boys who liked her: her best friend, Duckie, who was kind of weird but funny, and this rich guy Blane, who hung out in a snobby clique. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

They explained that many of their friends would stay away because they feared segregationists who warned them against any show of kindness toward us. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“At least I have friends,” Beth says indignantly. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“My friends are waiting for me. They’re probably drunk as we speak.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

We’ve always been friendly, but I’m starting to feel like maybe he could be a real friend to both Boy21 and me—someone we hang out with regularly. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could have friends over and not feel embarrassed about the roaches or the creepy neighbors. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

There was a stripped-down quality to her life, a kindling starkness, without parents and friends and home, the familiar landmarks that made her who she was. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Two new friends whom I had invited to my home over the Thanksgiving break both canceled at the last minute. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I know she wants to be my friend, but her family doesn’t want that to happen. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

They had already killed one of our friends, and they had jumped me a couple of weeks before. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Mark and Trina were halfway through their pancakes and deer sausage when they heard the familiar sound of the other three friends they’d picked up in the tunnels of New York. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Not because I wanted to try anything with Rose—she was just a friend—but I knew that if my mother saw that I brought a girl home, her and Yvonne would act all crazy. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I could feel my friends’ eyes on my back, watching me as I scanned the crowd. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

More than brothers, Vincent writes, more than friends—they are “companions in fate.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I flew to the competition with fencing friends from other local high schools and the foundation. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

She just stood in the driveway, between the creature and her family, her best friend absent in her hand. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“So will it be you two, or your friends in the elevator?” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Is that stuff from the stadium, man?” one of my friends asked the looters. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Smells like something ripe,” said his friend with the shotgun. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. Mom has some Bahá’í friends back home. How long are you fasting?” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I try to stop thinking about it, which is easier on weekdays when I’m distracted by school stuff like Zeno of Elea, lit mag, and the dirty looks I still get from Tim Huber’s friends. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Frank didn’t know how his friends could stand to be around him. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She’d never understood why her friends were so willing to let a god take away their responsibility for choosing. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

My friends around me began speaking rapid Arabic, gesturing and pointing, trying to intercede for me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d found friends, happiness, and something she could never have with the revolution . . . freedom. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

She didn’t want to look desperate, but she’d never felt like she needed her best friend so badly in her entire life. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

It seemed as if he could never have enough friends; new ones were added, to the old until it felt like this special family would never stop growing, wouldn’t be allowed to. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

And he’d bring a different friend each time so they could hook up with her friends. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I was just excited to see an old friend, or something. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I blow out my deer-fat candle and run outside to meet this old friend who is trudging up the trail. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I left him alive— partly because his lunch box was cool, partly so he could raise the alarm and hopefully get his friends to follow me rather than head toward the engine room. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I floated free, and slept at the homes of my mom’s friends as much as in my own bed. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

His friend’s wife would be very glad not to be alone with a bunch of men. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Should I mention that the farm was owned by Father’s friends, the Kleists? Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Solange promised to talk to a few friends she had who worked at various embassies. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“They killed our friend for one hundred and twenty-three dollars.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

If I stayed in one place for a whole school year, without Chiron or my friends around to help me, would my mother and I even survive until the next summer? The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“My friends are visiting later,” I say, shrugging sadly. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“What if you could smash them all together?” his friend said as they walked away. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Next he saw sitting some way off, apart, Mentor, with Antiphos and Halitherses, friends of his father’s house in years gone by. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Telling him the truth will be a test that'll show me if he can be as nice a friend as Rani. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

So he asked a friend if he could have a paper clip. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Winky, my one-eyed teddy bear, my oldest friend in the world. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Wherever you go,” the king said, “you and your friends must go immediately. It is not safe here, MengHai.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

But he’s always been a good friend to you. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Mohamed, my best friend, couldn’t come because he and his father were renovating their thatched- roof kitchen that day. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Even though she was friends with Amber, she still worried about me all the time. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I think he sensed my frustration at living in mutually exclusive worlds and thought a game of baseball would bring together my neighborhood friends and my wealthier Riverdale classmates and broaden the horizons of both. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Now we were stuck on the ferry dock with not much money, no friends, and no luck. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Your friends do you much honor, but in the end, it is your choice alone.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Dear David, I thought you were more my friend than my supervisor, but I guess I was wrong. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Of course I consider you my friend. Actually...” he began, his voice low. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“First,” I said, holding up one finger, “my best friend, Thomas, moved a million and one miles away to DC.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Give my friend a little kiss,” he says, pushing me toward the other kid. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

He sensed, in her voice, the sadness of defeat, as though her friends who were leaving for teaching positions in Canada and America had confirmed to her a great personal failure. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I wasn’t kind; I was just returning the favor. She was my friend.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The walking started a day after the funeral when all Mom’s friends and colleagues still filled the house. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He hurried out of the church, hoping he remembered the way back to his friends. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“And this makes it okay to tell lies about your best friend how?” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“But a man like you—in public life—needs a wife who knows social business—who can entertain his influential business friends. I’m not that kind of a woman.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Francie hardly knew the girls, nevertheless she waved and called out to them as gaily as though they had been close friends for years. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

My friends, when I had them, pretty much just ragged on me and took my seat when I left the room anyway. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

His playful look and gangly manner reminded me of Miguelito, my friend in elementary school. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

As I look at a painting of a woman with a large butt, hanging in the dining room, I remember Olga’s friend Jazmyn, who also has a large butt. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“But I thought all your friends—” “Tally, will you make me a promise? A real promise.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

They take pictures of themselves and text them back home to their parents and friends. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

When I went out with my friends, I’d avoid telling her where we were playing because I didn’t want her coming to the park to fetch me. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I would feel guilty about stealing you away from your friends.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was an inspector of the Hungarian police, a friend of my father's. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Near 0 g the slightest motion sends our friends floating and tumbling up in the air. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mary’s is a clergyman, a college friend of her brother’s, and, from his attainments and principles, worthy of the connection. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“You've drawn your father and his friends mocking the leader of the Soviet Union! Are there others?” he asked. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Because I was fine before, Alaska. I was fine with just me and last words and school friends, and you can’t just make me different and then die.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“It’s all right. His friend brought an extra,” said Mr. Eberhardt. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I’m sorry, mam. . . . Maybe she stayed with some friends of hers?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

How many close friends of yours have got killed through the years? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her best friend exhaled, his eyes sliding between the cold rage and a younger hurt. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“Will we move close by? So Franz can keep all his doggie friends?” asked Hyacinth. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

My roommates are cordial, but they're best friends from the same school, so they make it obvious they plan to spend this week together. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Taking the delicious-smelling hotteoks, the group of friends dashed through the crowded road and sat on the curb of the sidewalk. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

By the time we got to Oklahoma, my sister had become hard and sharp, but in London she was still soft clay, and we were still friends. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Chaff, a man from 11 who I know to be one of Haymitch’s particular friends, is also in. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Most of my friends were in grad school or had found great jobs already, working at prestigious firms like Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Happy, because she got a Gaming Machine. She was telling her friends that they could come play with it.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“On the Commensality,” said my friend, with a trace of his otter’s smile. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually he smiled again and said: 'As I say, I'm not going to waste my time on our French friend over there. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t know me. I’m Adam Trask. Your father was a friend of mine. I thought I’d like to pay my respects to Mrs. Hamilton. She helped me with the twins.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“That is just it—it is impossible—quite impossible—that an honourable, slightly stupid, upright Englishman should stab an enemy twelve times with a knife! Do you not feel, my friends, how impossible it is?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No. I’m friends with him because I want to be friends with him,” I answered. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

But the place where he and his friends swam was farther down the river, a bend where the water, protected by encircling rocks, was calm, separated from the fast-moving water farther out. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

As he learned English, he made friends at school. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Tina and her friends—and the black girls, too, everybody wanted a piece of this—were standing at the end of Eleanor's row, waiting for her to walk to her locker. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

He had good friends and was close to his sisters and his brother. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Michael gives me a high five and he’s smiling so much that I feel like a good friend again. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

They can bully me but not have to war with any friends. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

That I might not be friends with him now? King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

From the corner of his eye he could see his friend Fiona help the old man from the tub and tenderly pat his thin, naked body dry with an absorbant cloth. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Unless you want to get skewered by your friends in cabin five. Here—Chiron thought these would fit. You’ll be on border patrol.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

My Mutter always lamented my lack of friends in Heidelberg, but here each day I am introduced to someone new. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“You two were friends before he started middle school. Audrey hated that.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

She remembered how when she was young like Akira, she didn’t care much if she had friends. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Once, at his club, he had perked up as a young man talked to some friends about his own parents’ divorce, how he had felt relieved by it, because their unhappiness had been heavy. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

If anyone asked about him, my mom or Ellie would say, “He’s a powerful man, with many friends. Lots of obligations.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

They were friends as well as brothers, Jon realized, and now they are sworn foes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I picture Kim and Willow becoming friends, even though there are twenty years between them. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Here’s your question: If you take one letter away from the word ‘friend’ and put the rest into a different order, what word would you create? The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Just before I turned twenty-one, I moved out of my foster parents’ house and in with two friends—one a Lost Girl and another an American. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he was relieved that his friend seemed to have turned a corner. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Gradually she assembled data from her friends at school, carefully spacing her questions weeks apart so as not to arouse suspicion. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

But I ain’t got the guts to say any of that, ’cause having one friend is better than having none. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Or even: Keep your hands off me, Tobias, and tell your stupid friends, too! Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

But then he’d catch me as I ran out, cause he was between me and the door, or the friend standing next to him would, and they would pound me and break my feet. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

So she went straight to her bosom friend, Pheoby Watson, and told her about it. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Everyone needed a friend, and he was glad Abby had found one. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“People leave all the time. All my friends are gone. Most of the sisters are gone. We’re the only ones stupid enough to still be here.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Amanda has been my best friend ever since the time I lied about Joon dying and she gave me a Lifesaver, but that does not mean I tell her everything. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

One of his strange extraterrestrial friends in the U.S. had sent it to him. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

In America it is fine to borrow money from friends. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

The Courters also planned a gathering in their home for friends and family over the weekend. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

It’s good seeing Kim be friends with Carlos, hearing Grandma murmur how she misses me, how she remembers how much I liked video games. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

He seems bored with his friends and with us, too. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But in the process, I’ve slowly been pushed away from my closest friend. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Jesse spends much of his time on Hotline, talking to friends all over the country and around the world about music, software, sometimes actual news. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The princess spun and walked to where the remaining archers held Anya and her friends. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Once when he had wanted to send his friend a jar of his favorite tupelo honey he had ordered it from Charles Parker by mail so as not to be obliged to meet him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Methuselah was in a ferment of eagerness as he led his young friend over to the gatehouse. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Before Ben can answer, his mom glides into the room, cooing, “Your friends are here. So glad your friends are here.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

This place was worth defending - for herself, for her friends, for all demigods. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

My old friend Hosteen Mitchell made all the arrangements and the ceremony was done for me. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it hurts me to know that it took the lives of two dear friends for me to turn my life around. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He had himself a couple of lifelong friends, and we never let him forget it. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The collective gasp Moss’s friends couldn’t smother betrayed their escape, and the cop turned to see them slipping away. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Your friend—could it be maybe he’s interested in a cut? Is that his reason?” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I can’t wait for you to meet all my new friends. And you can finally introduce me to Peris.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“I do not pretend to fix on times or places, but I must tell you that I have good reason to believe your little friend will soon hear of something to her advantage.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

I'm sort of relieved, because that means there are a dozen people I don’t have to pretend to make friends with. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I knew that she at least liked these boys as friends, because she had given them all nicknames. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Seven shook her head as she stared at the witch who was supposed to be her best friend, and white-hot rage filled her body. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

And after we got out, put all the tools away, my gramps’s friend came and gave us more money. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Here, in my new—and old—friend’s house I feel Papi and Abue holding my hand from afar, showing me the way. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

My lips mumble something about leaving, about a friend who needs me, about my parents worrying. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps “friend” was not exactly the right word. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

But I never really got the hang of it, and Mom’s friends kept correcting me, so after a while I kind of gave up. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

And maybe this kind of thinking could actually help her make friends, instead of lose them? Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

One of the girls had a panda lunch box, which at my old school would be lame, but she seemed like she had a lot of friends, so maybe here panda lunch boxes were okay. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time, I thought I might understand what it was like to have a real friend. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I care about this island far too much to put any more lives in danger. And so, my friends, I must leave.” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The boy and his heart had become friends, and neither was capable now of betraying the other. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled off the road while my two friends were yelling in the backseat, “I’m shot! I’m shot!” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Who is she, anyway, Brother Jack's wife, his girl friend? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I had just closed his friend’s eyes for him,” he says with more than a touch of anger. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The friends looked out at us with the tragic eyes and short upper lips of south-eastern Europe, and I was glad that the sight of Gatsby's splendid car was included in their somber holiday. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

They are exposed to the music of their parents and siblings, friends, and relatives, casting a wide net over multiple experiences and genres. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

If anything, I needed a book that came with a friend included, or at least a friend manual. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

One day I was visiting my friend Carla when I noticed that her house didn’t have any flies. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

His friends and neighbors could have come to pay their last respects and for nine nights in a row say the rosary for him. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Everyone around me was smiling, introducing themselves to friends of friends, talking about the big game last night, wearing their newly purchased red and white sweatshirts. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

As I sat in the waiting room, I overheard him telling another customer that something had happened to an elderly friend of his. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Dude,” our friend Frank said with great seriousness. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

"I helped Pate carve the stone for the pommel," the builder said, "and your friend Sam bought the garnets in Mole's Town." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He ran after his friends, his pink feather boa streaming behind him in the breeze. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

"Well, at least you have a friend," she said. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

I park next to my friend Aragon, of the Bronx, who always puts The Club on his steering wheel; I see it through his tinted glass. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s always nice to see two friends meet again. It’s like waking up with the sun shining.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

He asked the friend of his youth many questions and Siddhartha had a great deal to tell him about his life. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and Emma were friends; they had made that trip to Paris together, stopping in London on the way back. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides,she wasn’t sure whether she could dump her magazine friends like that. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

I also had friends from my new church, who helped us settle into our apartment and our new lives. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

All my friends loved coming to our home because she was so friendly. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not like she had ever made any attempts to be friends with Auggie! Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Too, the agent was an excellent bow hunter; and he sometimes went with an old college friend—the Milagro real estate agent Bud Gleason—varmint calling. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Your friend, I know, yet a fool nonethe-less . . . and doomed, unless you save him. Today was a near thing. They had hoped to kill him during the melee." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Her best friend and number one acolyte, Cynthia, asks her if someone died. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Shawn said he wanted out of his old life, and that the first step was to stay away from his friends. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I think she just doesn’t want me mixing with her friends.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I decide to take the first step toward becoming his friend. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

So when Wilsie left Guam he was not just leaving behind little Johnny, but also one of the best friends he’d ever had. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes darted sideways to where his new friends were watching us like we were on TV. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Are your friends working on their projects over the summer, too?” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Be as considerate and good to me as you were, and tell me we are friends.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

If the “slavery was so long ago” thing comes up, have your white friend say that lots of white folks are still inheriting money that their families made a hundred years ago. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Well, my friend, I’m not sure if I should tell you this, but Haley told me she didn’t think you were ‘handsome enough’ to appear in Mr. Lemoncello’s holiday commercials with us when we win.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

There’s a tight shot now of Mario Reed and his friends. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

They’ve been friends for a long time, by circumstance more than anything. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“No,” A-Gong said, “we want to remember our friends, not our enemies.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Luckily everyone seemed to have such a friend, and we were never short of material. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

As his friends split off to find their own, Moss pulled open his locker to drop off his bag before homeroom. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The rest of the month I spent my lunch hours working on English with Mr. Lema, my best friend at school. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

"No. Don't do that. The bulls are my best friends." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Can you say hi to our friends, Joey?” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Soon I’d have a new friend, a real friend, a girl to talk to and laugh with. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

‘All your long life we have been friends, and you owe me something. Come! Do as you promised: give it up!’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Caesar, do you think all our friends here can keep a secret?” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

And to himself he said, “O dearest of friends, for want of you I cannot eat, I cannot drink.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You, me, and my friend Jennifer are all in the same boat.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

One Sunday, he and his friend Jose put train riding to the test. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

As he started to march again, however, he realized his father’s friend hadn’t replied to his questions. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Just as my fortune seemed to be turning, I was forced to leave my only paying job because of well- intentioned meddling by my friends. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The two bad friends were now too ashamed to go before the chief to ask him to change their names. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Yet I’m the one in the front row on the friends’ side. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

And I think maybe part of what she is saying is that I really need to get some Black friends. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Poppy whispered back, “Who knows? Maybe they think he’s our next-door neighbor from St. Louis, since he’s only speaking English. I just said he was our friend.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

While my cousin and her friends shower in the open, I wait on a bench, pretending to study my class schedule. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

So, okay, those are all the obvious reasons why Penelope and I were friends. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Our time was short, however, and choices had to be made, and in the end I decided to take her to this piece of ground where my friend Kiowa had died. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anxious to see the familiar faces of our friends or some of our own people, we hurried up the block lined with wood-frame houses and screened-in porches. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Percy yelled, hoping his friends got the message. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“There’s an old friend of mine we need to talk to. He’s one of the people who’ll be coming to the get-together. Old man, now. He’s expecting us for dinner.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Then he told his friends: “Too late for messages. Look, here they come along the bay. Some god has brought them news, or else they saw the cutter pass—and could not overtake her.” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was so much more than a friend to me. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

At lunchtime in the cafeteria, a new minefield: rows and rows of tables and chairs, cliques of friends, trays of weird food. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The sun, the feasts, the friends ... and the sameness, the perfect identical days. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He had made friends with some and enemies of others, and had played or fought with all of them. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I already did. I talked with his mom about it this afternoon. I figured it would be good to have some friends there for moral support.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She had been at a party, and a friend had pointed out some of the more interesting guests. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I remembered his ratty clothing, his calling the bonobo a friend. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Turns out somebody did a study on children and their imaginary friends. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Then, he got a few of his friends together from the factory. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

They might even have become friends, but the Englishman closed off the conversation. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And your friend didn’t want the dragons to get attached to a human. Smart move. So where are the dragons now?” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

They did that often, slowly detaching themselves from their friends, to sit in a corner by the library or take a walk in the green behind the laboratories. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Grandfather and his Jewish friends had assumed that if the Nazis made any move against them, their non-Jewish neighbors would defend them. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

My mother arrived with Autumn, who was almost two, and a friend named Brenda. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“So do you...like want to be friends with her now?” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

So his mom drove him thirty miles to try out for another club, and now the most dangerous player on the rival soccer club also happens to be your best friend. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Plus, Jay doesn’t do the internet, unless it’s to watch YouTube or stalk friends and family on Facebook. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Yet he was among several friends and advisers cautioning me that perhaps I had written enough. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I began speaking Zulu, Sotho and Tsonga, the languages of my friends. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, when she’s done, her friends are giving her a standing ovation and so are all the other girls. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He’d never felt so low and dishonorable, so unworthy of having a friend. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“It’s hard. Going back is hard. Eleven months until I get to be here again. Until I get to have friends again.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The new settlers have attacked Indian villages and made enemies where we used to have friends. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

There was something weird about a grown man wanting to be friends with his own child. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

My girls’ clothes are secondhand, donated by a distant friend of my mother’s who has a larger daughter. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

During the first moon walk I was watching television at a friend's house in Florida when a car ran off the road and hit the side of the house. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

He’s just a friend, or as Mother puts it, a beau. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Many of those trees were my friends, creatures I had known from nut and acorn; many had voices of their own that are lost for ever now. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I’d accepted a long time ago that Thomas and I were no longer best friends. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

"For six days I’ve been suffering from the semi-annual poison ivy case—my sufferings are far from over," he tells his friend Bill Jacobs. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Eddie was my best friend, and I miss him, and walking around with this hurt...well, it hurts.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He was not going to argue with his new friend. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Father was pretty sure they would be comforted by the letters we had written during the last two months, for they were full of our successes among the demons, and especially about our new friends. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and her friends raised the money and bought a good Land Rover with a rebuilt engine in Atlanta. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only friends Oedipus had were his daughters. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I will have no fighting among my friends. I have lost enough without that.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I could not read, so I got some of my friends to help say the word out loud. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s so funny, because I didn’t even know you guys were friends. But now you are! But, like, I’m totally cool with it.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

I am a hopeful person—my friends may say too hopeful, maybe even a little crazy. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Through the air ducts, I heard her whispering to someone over a link: a friend from back home, maybe, or someone she’d met at school. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I was a ward of Eddard Stark, a friend and brother to his children. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It’s not like our other friends bust him for the way he is, but I can tell they’re not as understanding as I am. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thank you, Danielle. I thought you weren’t a true friend. Now I know you are.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Or, “Starr saw her best friend die, keep her in your prayers, but my baby made the honor roll again. #Blessed.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I’d seen places like this before on those rare occasions when Grandma and I passed through as we went to visit friends or our relatives in North Little Rock. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Judith and Mercy know. Hannah is a good friend of mine.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“Music is powerful, my young friends,” she said. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

‘But first, it would ease my heart, Gandalf, to hear what befell you in Moria. Will you not tell us? Can you not stay even to tell your friends how you were delivered?’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

If we had to go anywhere, he would be my first choice, because I was his shepherd, and he was my number one friend. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The pastor’s friend, who was informed of our situation, welcomed us with open arms. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I know you have a boy friend. My father made me go tonight, too. Do you have any particular place you want to go?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Good morning, my friend,” the stout man said. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Todd also went along with the keto configurations, saying that his organic-chemist friends had drawn enol groups for purely arbitrary reasons. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

He fears being attacked by bandits outside his circle of friends. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

After a while, he had more than fifty of these “aphorisms,” which he shared with his friends. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Too many of our friends lay wounded in the streets. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Their faces looked years younger as they remembered old friends and old tricks. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I think of my friends on their last night in Cabo, and for the first time since I got here I don’t wish I were there. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Some of my friends did not have that privilege, and had to go outside to use the bathroom, no matter what the weather was. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“We did ask some college friends of hers, but they didn’t want to interfere,” said Patti. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The same was true for many of my friends at Princeton, but I was also coming to understand that there were other versions of being black in America. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“You and your hedgehog friend. Since when have you known that the safe is behind the poster?” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Carving on his wooden leg, he showed his friends how he would cut her. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted the best of both worlds—the thrill and the drama of high school with all my friends and a top-tier gymnastics career. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I doubt he’s having a party without his friends. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

As I made my way through camp, I said hi to some of my friends. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

She was so busy talking to her friends that she didn’t notice that her wallet had dropped out of her tiny pink purse. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

We had changed and would continue to change, but Twig would always be my best friend. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They showed them off to their parents, their friends. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She had come because Mini was her friend. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He examines the faces of his friends, his family, of people he barely knows and people he can’t stand the sight of. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Breathe. You’ll do great. Remember: you have fans and you have friends. Nobody here can do anything to you or take anything from you.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

They immediately accepted him as one of their own, and for the first time in his life, James Halliday had a circle of friends. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

In social studies, while we were drawing latitude/longitude maps, I opened my notebook and stared at the photo inside—my friend Annabeth on vacation in Washington, D.C. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Serious goodies. This is my friend Alex. You be nice to him, Harvey. He may be coming in here on his own, and I don’t want to hear you’ve been cheating him.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

My parents’ names are Lindo and Tin Jong, and nobody, except a few older family friends, ever calls them by their first names. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m the maid, she ain’t gone win no friends talking to me. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She began to look for her through friends and by asking the various delivery men who came to the house and might have come across her, but no one had seen a trace of her. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the interview, a friend of my father’s asked him, “How old is Malala?” Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He says this like nothing ever happened and he and I are the best of friends. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

You were always such a great friend I’m sorry I didn’t see more of you after you left school, bro. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

What I really needed was to talk to my best friends. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Do you have friends of other races than your own?” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Hearing his words, his friend knew them to be true. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I promise,” said Lucy, “and thank you both a thousand times for all your kindness to me! Oh, what have I done to be blessed with such friends?” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

She tells friends that she’s going crazy, and laughs it off. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

After her son’s arrest, she could not bring herself to tell friends and relatives and kept the family’s suffering private. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Okay, let’s say he’s not a friend, then,” Grace said. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

There is an old Italian proverb that goes something like “To find a friend is to find a treasure,” and I think that’s true. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

During the winter the friends sheltered in a dugout on the edge of the village. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t bear the thought of my two best friends knowing how desperate my situation was. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“So do horses,” said one of his friends. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“I knew you two were friends. Just happy he had someone to talk to, I guess. Seemed like he was mostly alone. I was worried about him.” King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

He invited me to his home, introduced me to his Jewish wife, his young son, his friends. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

And, having assured himself that his friend would be safe in the empty inn, Tommy walked back through the village to the gap in the wall. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t forget that your grandpa and I were good friends back in the day.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I happen to notice one day what a friend has posted on his Facebook wall: “If I could die and come back to life,” it says, “I would come back as Zach Philippi.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

In the afternoon, I went down to the pegasus stables to visit my friend Blackjack. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the stairs, the rat Botticelli sat waiting, and when Despereaux stepped from the last stair onto the dungeon floor, Botticelli called out to him as if he were a long-lost friend. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

One had so many friends in a war. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Okay, I just want to say first that Hudson and I are really, really over. We’re not even friends anymore. You know that, right?” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I really wanted out of Little Rock, but Mother said we were there among family and friends, with jobs, and it would be too difficult to move us as a family. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They were friends and fellow Marines and I wished they could have enjoyed some of the beauty and peace that was around me at Pearl. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

When his mother first told him about the “problems,” all Genie could think about was what his friend Marshé Brown told him when her parents got divorced, and how she never saw her father again. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The twin, Burnham knew, was at that moment carrying one of his closest friends, the painter Francis Millet, over the same ocean but in the opposite direction. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

A few weeks ago, Hazel wouldn’t have believed that anyone could sleep through a numina attack, but now she imagined her friends were still snoring away belowdecks. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Insert a candle and it gives light only to the holder! Best friend of thieves and plunderers! Your son has fine taste, sir.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

"Begging your pardon, my young friend," he said and moved off through the crowd. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

She wore lipstick, the same color pink me and my friends wore. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

With everlasting gratitude, your friend, Ezekial Freeman She could not believe it. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps our friends were right to get out earlier.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“It only makes sense,” Reynie quickly explained, when he saw his friends’ horrified expressions. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Gold, filthy gold! We cannot live without it, yet I confess I deplore the necessity of consorting with our long-fingered friends.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

And when we found out that we both collected coins, we became the best of friends. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The word came from John Slater, MIT’s physics chairman, who was passing on thirdhand information from a National Research Fellow in his laboratory, who heard it from a friend at Harvard working at Raytheon part-time. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He announced that he was about to be married and he called his friends together for a celebration, including Perseus in the invitation. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t know who anyone was, or who was friends with who, or who was mad at who. Savanna was the first person who was nice to me, that’s all.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The book was about three best friends who’d do anything for each other. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

Piper recognized that brooding expression on her friend’s face. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“You are not friends. And I think it would be best if you addressed all your communications to me, Princess. I am the one in charge here. Look at me. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Oh, it’s just like my friend said it was,” Ruth said. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh yeah. Our moms are good friends, so we hang out sometimes.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

That and our shared experience of having parents who don't let us invite friends over. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

But he was my best friend and I wanted him to know the truth. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

The letter said that they were two feet high, and green, and shaped like plumber’s friends. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You, too, speak the truth, my friend,” he said with great gloom. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Still, he felt guilty body shopping with his friend that morning. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“But your friend, are you sure he wants to be rescued?” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“No, I love you. Not like a sister loves a brother or like a friend loves a friend. I love you like a really drunk guy loves the best girl ever.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Khalid heard me say that, and he heard Sandy, too. So that night, he told me I shouldn’t be friends with Sandy anymore.” King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

"A dog,” said Dan, "would be a friend. He could eat scraps of food. He would save us waste and would save motions for the garbage man.” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was just one very small improvement — after swearing that he wouldn’t use her to send letters to any of his friends, Harry had been allowed to let his owl, Hedwig, out at night. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

It’s been true for a while, really, but it was easy for me to stay on here with Anatole’s friends in Bulungu, and hard for us to speak of what comes next. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was living in Hyde Park, subletting an apartment from a friend. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how to talk about that with my best friend. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I rose to get my hat; I wanted to visit some friends and tell them what I felt, to talk. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, you’ll see, my friend,” she said lightly, even though her heart was hammering in her chest. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I paused, and then added, “I mean, twelve seems old enough to watch a movie with only my friends.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

As he left the village, he heard people crying, and he knew that these were his friends who thought that he would never return. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Explaining why her best friend was freaking out at empty air seemed like a conversation Jam didn’t want to have with her neighbors. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

She described how she stormed into Nazi headquarters and tried to bribe Gestapo agents to let her friends go after they were captured. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She said that he’d gone to private schools his entire life—schools filled with Dreamers—but he made friends wherever he went, in Louisiana and later in Texas. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I had spent thousands of miles worried that I’d be betrayed by a friend, but these friends would never do that. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Would Uncle Clark let me make friends with other boys? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The eyes of his friend were moist and dark, and in them he saw the little rectangled pictures of himself that he had watched a thousand times. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

How far I’ve come from being that invisible girl with zero friends. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

None of our friends knew what it was like to be raised by Iranian immigrants. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Some of his friends had been with the army at that time. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Yet this is the way I felt about the animals who had become my friends and those who were not, but in time could be. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The expression is Franny’s ‘young man,’” he said, “not her ‘boy friend.’ Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

I was running behind my big slow friend Marvin and couldn’t make it to the fence on the other side of the junkyard where everyone else escaped. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

But soccer couldn’t distract Luma from homesickness for her friends and family. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

"I'm his friend," I said, and the one making notes looked up. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I decided to go to the theater with my friends.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“I need to talk with my boss,” I say, realizing it’s too late to change my mind now, wondering how I’ll manage school and work and friends and these rehearsals. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Often, I went to the movies either with my father or with some of my school friends. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Sandy is disappointed in her, he thinks she hurt her own sister, he doesn't want to be friends anymore. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know why her boyfriend thought Calista would want to be friends with an empty tin can, but anyway, he was probably right. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Despite that worry, we nine enjoyed one another as friends, once outside the pressure we shared at Central High. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Want me to help translate for your friend?” he asks. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I’m used to it, my brother and his friends say it all the time, when there are no adults listening. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

With best friends, you always know what they are up to, but until break today, Isabella didn’t breathe one word about leaving early. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Even though everyone appears to be with friends, it seems like at the same time everyone’s putting on airs. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d had to transfer to a new school, and he hadn’t made many friends. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turn the comer, and there he is, Antonio, standing by the avocado trees with his friends. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew I still wanted to be her friend. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I know guys who are grossed-out by the idea of dating a friend’s ex. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Capricorn's man wants to kill it because he enjoys killing small animals, so Dustfinger tries to save his furry friend and dies in the attempt.'' Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

There are a few other quotes, including one from Tara Epstein, the friend with whom Megan was supposed to stay on the night she disappeared. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If your friend here took something, it would help a lot if we knew what it was.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“They say they have no jobs, but they mean they have no jobs for a boy like me. Everyone there is someone’s cousin or brother or best friend’s son.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Instead, he’d take away Sunday afternoon movie privileges or not let me talk on the phone or tell me I couldn’t go to club meetings with my friends. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The plan to help her make friends was already starting to work. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

From that day, Sissy became the adored and trusted friend of the family. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What you mean ‘cared about him as more than a friend’?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The friends pressed onwards until the passage broadened out into a small chamber with two more tunnels leading from it. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Slowly he started to let his idea out to other trusted friends. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her oldest friend ran over to her, and it seemed everyone’s eyes followed her. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

They consulted Jack Neylan, who phoned his close friend Lewis Strauss to take the temperature of the capital. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“I mean, like, not everyone was good at it, but the people who were friends with trans people were.” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She sings in a salsa duo with her sister, Thaimi, who is fourteen years older, and spends a great deal of time with family and friends across the Delaware River in New Jersey. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“You’ll have to fight your way through, find our friends—assuming they’re okay—find this map, and get everybody back alive. All on your own?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Because of Tad’s friends and all the people like them. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

His friend ran to a window and saw a building heave upward and crumble down. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

A fiddler played the latest melodies by the fountain as the children and their friends diverted themselves with hide-and-seek and hunt the ring. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Hon, when someone’s a true friend, there’s no need to miss ’em.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

He wore a three-piece suit with a carnation on his lapel, and looked around at the company confidently, as if at friends. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We had twelve students in my class, and everybody was friends. Everybody!” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

She told everybody that Sula had pushed him, and talked so strongly about it she was forced to abide by the advice of her friends and take him to the county hospital. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I was looking for you, friend. The ever-scowling First Craftsman bids me ask if you will be making charcoal today.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“The party was supposed to start, but I told them it couldn’t begin until you were here. Two of my friends already left.” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

She’s made easy friends with her coworkers, since competence translates directly to popularity in the campaign social culture, and nobody’s better at numbers than her. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I quickly made friends with the other fencers, and when we weren’t fencing against each other, we would be laughing, enjoying one another’s company, and making fun of each other in jest. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

They understood that I had to be away from the places that held the memories of my friend. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ll have a few of your school friends and family here, and then we’ll invite all of your Children’s Home friends to a restaurant in Tampa. Is that okay with you?” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

It takes a while for me to make friends—Samantha and Elsa and I were in class three together and we didn't become close until class seven. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When people point at me or whisper as I walk past, I wave to imaginary friends down the hall and hurry to meet them. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

So she kept Menda close by her, and when her friends and neighbors came to visit, she sent them away. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There was no harm in envying even your best friend a little. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

In less than a month she’d come to feel like they were best friends. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The house was “a jewel,” a friend recalled, “but made so by her.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

This time I kept my eyes open, and I whispered to myself, “Once I had a brother and friend...” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Lawrence had asked his childhood friend to double-check the Rad Lab’s results using the Carnegie’s accelerator, the only machine in the world that could approach the cyclotron’s energies. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Your friend called us first thing this morning,” explained the deputy assistant director, Mr. Struchen. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

“A bunch of your friends are watching Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” he tells me. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Was he planning revenge, or was he just feeling hurt because Percy had lied about being his friend? The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“So, as long as I’m being . . . not smart, we’ll try to be friends?” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

For her whole life, Nicole had been playing a part in a story shaped by everyone from her mother to her friends, even to her beloved auntie. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Besides baking, I like riding my bike, reading, and hanging out with my friends. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“I think so. Right now, he’s pretty much the only friend I have.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

For all the frenzied preparations that went into the wedding night—most of it, blessedly, by Khanum Taheri and her friends— I remember only a handful of moments from it. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Instead Naheed sat at her table with her best friends, the three girls she had known since kindergarten. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

They ditched her and became my friends instead. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

I have learned to read people—friend or enemy—by their eyes. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, he was excessively trusting of some of his speculator friends; and he only fired his assistant in the Treasury Department, William Duer, after Duer’s mixing of personal and public funds reached criminal proportions. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

To the dismay of reformers, Prohibition was turning out to be crime’s best friend. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I live in the here and now, with friends who say I’m no fun anymore. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I hate that my friends have discussed this, my one night’s fate, behind my back. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The rest of the meal was quiet, me pondering why anyone, even him, wouldn’t want friends, and him glaring, the lights of the highway reflecting in his glasses. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want you talking about what happened with your friends,” she warns. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

He and a friend would be backpacking for a year or more—Europe first, then Asia, ending up in the Philippines. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It makes me sick thinking about Miss Celia running up to those girls like they’re best friends, the look on her made-up face when she hears about me. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It’s also not known for sure why Hans and his friends chose the name “White Rose.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I do a wiggle-wave with my fingers, realizing two of his friends, the girls, are looking at me. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

What will Jasmine think if I tell her I can’t be Sandy’s friend anymore because he’s gay? King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

It had always been that way; apart from a few friends in the comic book fan community, he’d never really been able to relate. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

A girl whose parents didn’t allow her to have friends—how peculiar, how bizarre, how weird. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

One day she came home in tears, and when I asked her why she was crying, she said she’d gotten into a fight with Suzie Q., one of the imaginary friends. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I know you and your little friends just want more time to get into stuff you shouldn’t be getting into.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“It’s me, Sam. I’m home. I have a friend with me.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Somewhere off in the desert behind Lita’s house, a coyote howls, calling for its friends.As if on cue, the chickens cluck, and one of her fainting goats bleats. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Then you should wait until the hordes of people run to wherever your friends are, and then sneak up on them from behind.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The boy’s friends come over to lead him away, and at that moment, improbably, Locke’s gaze lifts. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I think how nice it is to have a friend here. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I suppose that had happened; even with his friends. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

In the morning, she came to the house where her friend had said she was to stop. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All guards are to report to the boathouse. Even you. Or are you too busy making friends?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It never crossed his mind that his friend may have lied to him about their destination. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

No one else in the cell knew what to make of us, the ruthless colored gangster and his menacing, Hulk-like friend. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

As if he were lying to his friend. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

She didn’t want any more pain or suffering for herself and her friends. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

So it was not just coral trinkets and flower bulbs that this seafaring friend of Hannah’s brought from afar! The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not usually an eavesdropper, but I dare you to try not listening if you hear your best friend talking about you to an adult. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

With scarcely room to breathe, my friends and I tried to stay motionless and silent as we waited. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Rocky had his own way, with his after-school sports and his girl friends. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

But I was at a party with my friends, so it really didn’t matter that much. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Roan seemed to have been unaware of these machinations; he trusted that Hale, his supposedly closest friend, was helping him. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I wished for my mothers friends, but skilled as they were, even they didn't surf at dusk. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The priest is a friend ofMoushumi’s parents, an anesthesiologist who happens to be a Brahmin. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Candice just hoped Milo and his friends wouldn’t be there to ruin it. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Matthew left his friends and caught up to them, panting. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

And all the while, I was praying that old pervert didn’t call on his favorite caveman to out poor Nick Adams and his friend. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

But his friends at camp warn him against it. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

A want to find a monster, to think something bad could be happening to your friend? Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The looks on my friends’ and family’s faces—it hurt me to see them that way. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“But I still need you, Mom. I need a parent who knows when I’m upset, or happy, or having problems with friends. Dad’s away all the time, so that person is you.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Monet and his friend spent the whole of New Year’s Day there. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm quite sure that if you had had such a horrid accident, and were in hospital all by yourself, you would like a present from your best friend.’ I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

His friend had to stop to catch his breath. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

He considered Jack Collins’s sister Ethel a friend as well, and he could be even more affectionate toward her at times. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Jemmy wondered what had possessed him to refer to Prince Brat as his friend. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

Jus has been listening to his music a lot since he woke up without a best friend. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

When she arrived at the auditorium with a friend, black educator Mary McLeod Bethune, she was told that blacks and whites were not allowed to sit together at public gatherings in Birmingham. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

That weekend we moved to Five Points, and I never saw my friend again. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He spent mornings in class and afternoons training with his best friend, Payton Jordan. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

There’s a lot of talk from his friends. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

They kept some for themselves and slipped the rest to starving friends. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

She had been with Blaine for more than a year, but she did not quite belong with his friends. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

And she told me my friends were still saving a seat for me in class. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He quickly rushed through his morning routine and joined his friend. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“You have shelter. You have food. You have family and friends. I’m supposed to feel pity for you because of a cut cheek?” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I walked around the Box, forcing myself to move slowly despite every urge to rush, to hurry and save my friends. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Ophie pulled away from her mother and went to her friend’s side. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Not until Grandma says, “No. I won’t take a penny. He’s a friend. He’s always welcome here.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Not my parents, not my teachers, not my pastor, not my Sunday school teachers, not my church members, not my friends. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Burly leather jacket guy slapped his friend on the back. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have a white rose to tend...in July or January...I give it to my true friend,” I tell Joy. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

If you liked walking, you were my friend. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“I don’t understand why you’re trying so hard to be my friend. I don’t understand why you keep showing up in my life. Do you, like, feel sorry for me or something?” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

As a teenager she’d had plenty of friends, some of them boys—but none as close as the friendship between her daughter and Moody seemed to be. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They seldom stayed long enough to make friends anywhere, and in the few cases where they had, they’d moved on with no forwarding address and lost contact. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Yes, it is difficult. Hard, perhaps. Very much. But you must not take it badly to yourself, my young friend.” The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

“And the boy whose girl got sore at him over the fish? And his friend?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I just smile and let my eyes dance and say, “If you like my sandwiches so much, why don’t you buy some more for your family and friends?” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

No surprise that none of my friends were waiting over by the pebbles. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Which was worse: a friend with brain damage, or one who despised you? Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Maybe not. But ever since that day, I feel stupid. Helpless. Angry. These were my friends and I couldn’t save them.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

But they rose again, bringing friends this time. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Poe was the first friend I made when I came to the hospital. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“Bah,” the pirate prince replied, “he will kill you with these honors, old friend. He will kill you.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Jackie’s friend Casey told me if you count to thirteen when you see a truck full of hay, you can make a wish. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Imogen told her she should stay overnight in one of the guest rooms, just as the other friends were piling into their car. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She always said that he had been her best friend before me. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The enemy of my enemy is my friend, he thought. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

But maybe she’s not as ready to make a new friend as I was. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I’m writing as one of your oldest friends to tell you that you’ve really been acting different lately, and I hope you snap out of it. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“I would love that, my friend,” Pond said. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

My friend Shannon, who was now my roommate, heard me. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Can your best friend be more important than your family? The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

When I told my cousin that I had decided to report him she confided that a younger friend of ours had also been molested. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

But a few maverick friends and I deliberately strayed from the herd. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The idea of not having her as a friend anymore does me in. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

We stayed good friends, but it was sad, especially for Grub. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the quiet house, he jumped up and down on Uncle and Auntie’s best feather sofas when they were away visiting village friends. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. I came back up here to call you, while I wait for the server to reset at midnight. The tomb is empty right now, because your friend, Art3mis, already blew through here earlier today.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

One of her best friends in Long Beach pays for a smuggler to bring her sister from El Salvador. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

My grandma ended up marrying my grandpa, and Grandma Nellie’s friend ended up marrying Grandpa Ron’s brother! Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Caitlin is my best friend and she has helped me socially and economically and also educationally. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

And with that, the three new friends went in search of Room 7-B. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was at the court of a friend, King Lycomedes, where a few years later Achilles was to hide disguised as a girl. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Billy had not only read dozens of books by Trout—he has also become Trout’s friend, to the extent that anyone can become a friend of Trout, who is a bitter man. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then her friend spoke in a quieter voice. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

It is truly baffling that we were ever friends. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

By then, he really was my true best friend. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I wonder if he’s the old friend who lives in Madagascar. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

But suddenly Abby’s talking like we’re the kind of friends who go to parties and take selfies and split French fries at midnight. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

And Souma the donkey became my best friend; we were inseparable. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

“His best friend came all the way from home.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

But at the same time he felt rather ashamed for his friend. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she was equally my friend and Barack’s, which in my experience is a rare thing inside a couple. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

In 2011, I started making a deliberate effort to invest and reinvest in my friendships, bringing together old friends and new. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Being an anthropologist was my second career choice after musician in a punk band, so I studied Selena and her friends as if they were a newly discovered culture. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

When we fled from Lithuania she rushed me to Insterburg and, through a friend, arranged for me to work in the hospital. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

And brothers and sisters don’t share rooms, so our friends might think we’re weird or poor, even though what are you supposed to do if your house is small? Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

People are staring, whispering to their friends, and some are even pointing. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Your friends? Your family? Aapa, this isn’t back home. And it’s not the same as it was twenty, thirty years ago, even in India.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Her one close friend, Heidi, moved to Memphis the year before. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

After a pleasant week at the New Jersey shore with Lucretia and his family and friends, James Garfield returned to Washington on Monday, June 27, leaving Lucretia and the children in Elberon. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

His bulky frame blocked the door while the rest of his friends trickled out of their seats and surrounded us. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

And then he put his arm across my shoulder and said, “But you know what? Laleh is not my best friend, Darioush. You are.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Malvonne, I’m just hoping for a lady friend. Somebody to talk to.” Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He slipped inside the tent, leaving Griff to contemplate the gilded skull of his old friend. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Brooding his friend asked, “Are there names in the dark realms?” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

But while making a list of friends to call, she realized she had forgotten to ask Raleigh where the courthouse was. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Florida had had an odd feeling when she met Tiller’s friend, as if she’d seen him somewhere before, but she couldn’t place where that might have been. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“We were on the same team. Foil. USA Fencing National Championships Team. I was the last to qualify. Beat out one of Michael’s friends. He never forgave me.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I decided I’d be best friends with Zaheera and stay friends with her long enough to ask her to the matric dance, what we call our senior prom. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

But I wonder if he’s annoyed by Crick too, and I think Epsilon-5 and I would have been better friends than I first thought. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Who’s this? You didn’t tell me you were bringing a friend.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“I wonder how Reb Saunders will feel when he finds out that Danny is the friend of the son of a Zionist,” I mused. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

She tried to pull her friend away and met with no success. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Instead, many onlookers will be friends or relatives of only one combatant and will side with that person, escalating the two-person fight into a general brawl. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if we’ll be friends again, not the way we were before, but I’m relieved that we’re speaking to each other. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“Speak, my friend. There is something here that puzzles you?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the moment that my friends entered the store, Ping Wah was reading a Chinese newspaper. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But what do I do when my two best friends have both done me dirty? A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

He continued as her accompanist during both her American and European tours, while Marian and Billy continued as friends. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

“It is just the soldiers testing their weapons,” one of our friends assured us. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She slung a stone hard, nodded in satisfaction at the resultant scream, and joined the two friends. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

My friends would tell me that they would meet a famous author one week and, the next, they would be read a really interesting book. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“It quickly became apparent to me,” he wrote, that. . . the prison warden, to be effective, would have to constitute himself not as an instrument of punishment but a firm, frank friend in need. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before long, Olaf’s friends were pounding on the table in strict rhythm again, and the orphans went out to the dining room to clear the table, and then again to serve the chocolate pudding. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Then she added: “Anyway, we hadn’t parted the best of friends, back at the Cottages. So maybe we weren’t so delighted to see one another.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She shouldn’t worry about his friends if he’s not. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

And I spot Mama in the corner reading the Quran quietly with Salma Auntie and their other friends. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

For a while you would have an ugly, unpopular kid for a friend. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know you were very close ... friends... the two of you. Always to- gether, since you were kids. It’s a terrible thing, what’s happened. Too many young Afghan men are dying this way.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Anise Fowler and her friends leave me alone. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He finally voiced this sentiment to his friend, a very old one-eared rat named Botticelli Remorso. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

But Roosevelt treated everyone equally, and that meant calling out people when they were wrong, even if they were his friends. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

“Your Grim Reaper friend, Mrs. Dubicki,” she revealed, still sounding all bubbly. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Throughout that summer and during the next few years, Bobby began making chess friends at the club. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Don’t get me wrong, I had friends, and I’d get loud and crazy with them sometimes. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“He’s Mapper. But ay, how we gonna bust up into that place, get past the guards, through that gigantic door, find our friends, and get ’em out?” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Good fight, little Nok!” said one of his friends from work. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“Were going to teach our friends back home how to play rung,” he volunteers. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

I had the quiet determination of my mother, he had the boisterous nature of Abu and his brothers, but we were best friends. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

In 1951, long before James Watson would become a household name around the world, the novelist Doris Lessing took a three-hour walk with the young Watson, whom she knew through a friend of a friend. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“From now on,” Nately declared sternly to his girl friend, “I forbid you to have anything to do with that wicked old man.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He is my brother’s friend really, but I know he has two cousins and that his T-shirts never stay tucked in his pants. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

I opened the door, to find my friend Janet, who said, "Well, it's about time." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Soon, Werfel was sure, they would be best friends. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

And reaching out his hand to his friend and companion as I now stretch out my hand to you, he said, 'Come closer. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to me and several of my friends, it was almost scary the way I could read people. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Those nights when I was invited to stay for dinner, I’d notice that my friend’s mother rang a small silver bell to tell the black woman when to bring in the food. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw a horrified look of grief wash over my friends’ faces. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Carol has another best friend, who is sometimes her best friend and sometimes not. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Relatives and friends began to search for a bridegroom. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Thousands of fans spent lazy summer evenings rooting for their family and friends on teams in an industrial baseball league that included the Swift Premiums. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, I miss my best friends, Jessie and Ethan. And my house. The guest room we have at home is bigger than my uncle Milton’s bedrooms.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

They did not notice Singer or Antonapoulos, and the two friends sat alone on the other side of the room. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Thomas shot his new friend a fake glare. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Parents of a friend in Farmer’s advanced elementary school class introduced P.J. to Tolkien’s trilogy, The Lord of the Rings. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

We used to be the best of friends, the three of us. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

As the wind, I visit my animal friends. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Erlan’s brothers and sisters all had friends over too, and there were a couple extra adults, so there wasn’t much room. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

“We are going to leave your friend here.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I felt intrusive, as reporters often do, and I began to think that a tape machine between two people who were supposedly friends was a foreign object, an artificial ear. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could tell Hazel was distressed by the idea of losing her new friend. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

"I didn't do anything. Viji Aunty's lawyer friend is the one who made this miracle happen." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Every time Shay screamed, Tally knew she was about to follow her friend through a wall of spray leaping up from the maelstrom. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

And he’d lost one of his close friends, a young scientist who had been near the mountain when it exploded. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

He was a friend of our instructors and through an interpreter he told us a little about his life in the jungle. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She remembered what the giantess Periboia had said in her dream: that the demigods would find friends in Athens as well as enemies. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

After the cabinet meeting ended, the president followed his usual routine: receiving visits from friends and job seekers, reading his mail, and catching up on paperwork. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another time, they went to a gay bar in Philadelphia with a friend who was gay. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He did them so often that his school friends nicknamed him Gas. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few of my former friends showed up at the performance, looking just as sweaty and desperate as I did. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

You suddenly notice that all of his friends are wild, bad kids, the kind that hold lighted firecrackers until the very last second, or torment the neighborhood animals. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I was going to follow him onto the court and shut down my best friend. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“His birth mother died. One of his second mothers died later, and he lost his best friend, and then his daughter. Like you said, lots of sad things.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

She must stay here in Wales for a while longer, where she knew people who could help and advise her, especially her husband’s great friend and partner, Mr Aadnesen. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I hope you and me stay friends this summer,” she says. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Together we explored the city and met other Bengalis, some of whom are still friends today. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

When Obsle and Yegey both left town, and Slose’s doorkeeper refused me entrance, I knew it was time to turn to my enemies, for there was no more good in my friends. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

His friends were hot allowed to see him, but the Old Bear did relent and permit him Ghost, so he was not utterly alone. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Ever since last summer when the god Pan had died, our friend Grover had been drifting farther and farther away. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Q. Darling. How long have we been dear friends?” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The girl raises her horn, and before she starts again, she says, “It’s great to practice with a friend.” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

A sign that she really did have a crush and that June wasn’t just some different kind of friend. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I also seem to recollect that the master taking Prep was our friend Captain Hardcastle, but I wouldn’t swear to it. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pick up my sketchbook and I draw a picture of my friends laughing together as they all huddle around their cell phones. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Teddy and I got along like a house on fire, one of those friends where you start hanging out and from that day forward you’re never apart. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Marie and many of their friends had begun to wonder at the completeness of his fixation. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I smiled, implying that my friends were being silly. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Lucy always said that the greatest friends have nothing and everything in common all at once. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“I’ll be back,” I say, getting up from my spot on the couch, which Scruggs, a friend who was relegated to the floor, immediately claims, slinking up in one fluid motion. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Ho there! Thought you and your friends would end up in the river by the way you were weaving when you left last night.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She did not go outside much, except to play basketball with me and my friends, and she seemed to have a book with her wherever she went. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“I don’t need anyone’s help. And I sure don’t need an imaginary friend. I’m not a little kid anymore.” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“So, do you think Conner likes me? I mean, are we going to the dance as friends or what?” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

A week later Mrs. Meier was sitting in her parlor talking to a friend. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know it then, but that face belonged to Phoebe Winterbottom, a girl who had a powerful imagination, who would become my friend, and who would have many peculiar things happen to her. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

But then I realized that she was being my friend. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I want to talk to you as a friend, and very confidentially,” Johnson began, “because I think we’re skirting on dangerous ground.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

So working hard at Osoaviakhim and Komsomol clubs wasn’t just something you did to be like all your friends, or even because you were patriotic. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I felt as if we were denying Saidu, our friend, our traveling companion. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Ranofer!” cried his friend, and the face split into a grin of delight. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

In late August, a teacher from the school and some friends went on a vacation trip to the northern part of Zaire. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their fire whirled around him, danced with him but never hurt him: Dustfinger the tamer of flames, the man who breathed sparks, the friend of fire. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“This is my friend Sam. She goes to my school.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“You make a zillion friends every time we move. It’s why you love moving so much.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“I’m here because a friend of mine heard of an Arab who . . .” But the caravan began to move, and it was impossible to hear what the Englishman was saying. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around 8:00 P.M., not long before the curtain rose at Ford’s, Stanton left his house to visit his friend William H. Seward at his sickbed. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matty was very fond of his friend but sometimes suspected that his true name might eventually turn out to be Boaster. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“I am immortal in my homeland, Frank Zhang! And thanks to your friend Hazel, my new homeland is Alaska. You cannot kill me here!” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Not quite a stranger, not quite a friend. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I hope our moms become friends,” I said. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

I understood her, trusted her, and loved her as a dear friend. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Funny—it seemed the most heroic thing in the world when he told me about his friend, dead amazing that anyone could be that brave and selfless. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“Besides, once you know more English, you’ll be able to make some friends.” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

There was so much money to be made that drug gangs rapidly expanded their ranks, sucking in some of our best friends, and turf wars became deadly, aided by the influx of sophisticated firearms. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Anya smiled, excited to come back and learn more about her new friend. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

So they came: friends, neighbours, bringing sugar cane and frosted sugar and sticks of striped candy for the new baby. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

How Minerva refused to stay over with friends until the next morning. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was David’s third summer at camp, so he had actual friends. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The two mutes had no other friends, and except when they worked they were alone together. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Gwydion had called out to him once—or so Taran believed—he could not recall his friend’s words, perhaps even that had been part of the nightmare. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Spassky wrote: “I have a brother’s feeling toward Bobby. He is a good friend.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Bit had turned around and was walking backward so he could look his friends in their faces. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

The articles troubled me, but I had friends to cheer me up, and that is something. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, I’m just with some friends,” I mumbled quickly, walking to yet another side of my room. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

I didn’t need to make friends with this silly rich girl. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Now was the time, they all knew, if there ever was to be a time, when he ought to have it out with his friend and king—yet Guenever was thwarting him. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tell you a wrong, you no like a mouse for more, not a friend a more.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a great friend of Arthur’s, and like him, had a particular interest in engines and electricity. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I stood talking to him, asking him about his work, about common friends. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sounds like she lost one of her best friends. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In his spare time, Houseman enjoyed going to the theatre and hanging out with friends who worked as actors, writers, and artists. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

And even if Shay still hated her, there was always Peris and all their old friends, waiting across the river for her with their big eyes and wonderful smiles. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

It could very well have been, however, that my aunt did not take subtle enjoyment of her friend, but, a wild woman, kept rollicking company. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know, this is so hard. It’s one of the really hard things about growing up. Sometimes your friends change.” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Looking at that yew tree every day, it felt like I had a friend out there who’d help me if things got to their worst.” A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

The dog jumps from corner to corner, like he’s playing tag with invisible friends. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The three of them had been friends since they were small. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

He was my teacher, mentor, and friend, and he was central to what I would become. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

When I turn around, he’s gone, and Olga’s friend Angie comes running in, looking like she was the one hit by a semi. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I told him I had a friend called Algernon once but he was a mouse and we use to run races together. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Me and my friend Lloyd Newman just did a description of our life for a week, and we want to give you kids in America a message: Don’t look at ghetto kids as different. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ellis’s teammate and running partner, and Dee’s old friend from hockey camp. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

It was a place where you had friends you could count on, like Marisol. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

If Alyssa and company had any sense, they would have run as soon as I took the spotlight off her, just as the blond kid’s “friends” had. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Ralph drove off in a wide circle and returned to his friends. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

At least this one afternoon I can be very sure of not meeting any seafaring friends there. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Because my brother didn’t have any friends except for Libby Truett, I decided to visit her one afternoon seven weeks after he’d been missing. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

And when it was my birthday she got me this necklace, I say and pull out from under my shirt collar my half of the friends forever heart necklace. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

At first his friend could not be interested in the reasons for moving the various pieces about on the board. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She walked over thinking the kid was finally going to be friends with her. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

As Kathy was driving to Houston, Yuko was making arrangements for the family to spend the night with a longtime friend of theirs she called Miss Mary. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

My friends call me Red, and you can, too. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He looked around at his friends, trying not to feel like this was the last time they’d ever be together. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Now your friend is here, I wish you would not lurk about the place, it is so very ill-mannered. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

So what if they can barely keep it together around regular friends, much less boyfriends. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

When she met Bobby, she took a maternal interest in him, and she became one of his few lifelong friends, ultimately playing an important part in his career. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I mean that your friend wants us to chase fairy tales!” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“To quote one of my absolute best friends in the world, ‘Rules were made to be broken.’” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I knew I was with friends and whatever I chose would lie okay. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, recently, without her even asking, Minerva had confided to Dedd that their old friend was alive and kicking. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seriously, even my friends are like that, and we’re supposed to be the nerds. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

He seems to have countless friends and resources in Bulungu, and I can stay here as long as I need to. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grew up hearing my father's friends talk about religious divisions in the town, but I thought there must be more that unifies us than divides us. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Bar. was a friend of his, and that it is the prince’s eyes that meet with his. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Your friend is very weak. She has suffered a great shock.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was flattering, but Shady was highly overestimating my circle of friends. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I watched him join his friends, watched them slapping each other on the back and laughing. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

But when I looked back, Cliff and his friends had their heads together, and past them, Celia glared daggers at me. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Toward the end of that year, the friends reunited at the American Physical Society meeting in New Orleans, where they basked in their rising eminence and remained, evidently, inseparable. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“At first I thought you were friends or something. Where did you pick her up, Mama Dedd?” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I came only to seek a flower for my—my friend. I must go now, Ancient. May your ka be joyful.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Neither one of us said much of anything as we walked home in trepidation, certain that Assef and his friends would ambush us every time we turned a corner. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

We hadn’t gone on a picnic since she’d first made friends with Amber. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Many times a day he went in and out the castle gate, and he had already made friends with Alan-at-Gate. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

He was supposed to meet Woody later—they were going to skip school with some friends, stay at Wes’s house, and have a cookout. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Anya shuddered at the thought of her friend’s blood in the stone bowl. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“Promise you’ll still be my friend after you hear what happened next.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

His friend came to a halt, and Mark passed him before he could stop too. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

One more thought slips in, unwanted, as I shut my eyes: My only friend not in a book is a fish. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

My teenage brother Caleb and his friends were having a tent sleepover party in our backyard and one of the boys brought a six-pack of Michelob. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

On that day, he’d gone with a friend’s family on a camping trip. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Liberians, for example, often moved to Iowa; Somalis to Minneapolis or Lewiston, Maine; and Sudanese to Omaha, Nebraska, to seek out the support of communities of family, friends, and countrymen. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

My lab partner is kinda nice, but like a friend- friend, not a boyfriend or anything. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I called to four of my friends who were primping in front of the restroom’s large lounge mirror. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And still Moss sat, unmoving, but with his friend’s body next to him, warm and comforting. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Grandma’s friends had thrown her a shower at work, because they knew that with four young kids moving in, she might need some help getting up to speed. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Afterwards she searched out a friend for tea while I walked back across the Seine to our hotel near the Palais du Luxembourg. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Axel turns just in time to see his best friend lift his leg on the indoor tree. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

As Hale relaxed with his newfound friends, he was arrested. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heard my friends leave, and the big glass doors shut, and then I turned the knob to Mom’s office all the way before stepping inside. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Through his moans, he tells his friend to get up and fight—to get Albert for him. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

They invited various relatives and friends, who took the train out from the city, and all the landed gentry from the neighborhood, without overlooking the town notables. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But maybe I want to be friends with a boy without everyone assuming he’s my boyfriend. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

We’re not best friends or anything, but we don’t feel like enemies, either. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Genie’s aim had gotten awesome, and he was thinking he could really impress his friends with it when he got back to Brooklyn. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps he’s a friend of the parents. Not everything’s connected to Oakley Street, you know.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Tolerably well,” said Bod, which was what Mr. Owens always said to his friends when they asked him the same question. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

A girl with long curly hair shouts “Hey! ” next to my ear, waving at a distant friend. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He wouldn’t want his gentle friend to suffer the way he had, taking on the memories. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Ellsberg called a friend at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was offered a position, at half his current salary, at MIT’s Center for International Studies. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Besides, she was right about my friend Tyson. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Josquin was asked to compose something in this friend’s memory, to be performed by the Ferrara Chapel Choir and quite possibly the duke himself in the role of tenor. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The kid who might once have cruised through town showing off his new Mustang is more apt to invite friends over to see his turbocharged new hard drive. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He smiled, “I must make on Miss Barkley the impression of a man of sufficient wealth. You are my great and good friend and financial protector.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Those things happen. I was talking to a friend.” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I did, and she tried to kill me. She killed my friends. My family. Don’t even go near her! She’s a mutt!” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“It is your friend, though!” the boy had muttered before running off. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Hale had always insisted that Roan, one of his closest friends, had made him the beneficiary because he had lent Roan a lot of money over the years. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Nope. Tell me everything about your new best friend, who is a royal. That is so bougie of you. Who would have guessed it?” she says, peering over the edge of the bed at him. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“By altering what he sees—making him confuse enemy with friend.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“It’s pretty serious, though. My guess is that your friends will be charged with manslaughter—maybe even second-degree murder.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry I threw a pencil box at Tyler. It put you in a bad position. I should have thought about you. I was a bad friend and I’m sorry.” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“We stole with you. And we didn’t tell on you or anything. ’Cause that’s what friends do.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

That’s why my father spent so many years in prison—he refused to turn in his friend—and I so many years without a father. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I was just talking to a friend. No big deal.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Then come and watch. I want my friends to see what I got for my birthday. Besides, I have missed your company,” Clay said boldly. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I assumed my friends also came with a tribe of outspoken aunts, uncles, and cousins they saw on a regular basis. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Take me to your friend quickly. It is lucky I brought the medicine bag with me. Da-Fu, get your blanket and give it to this girl. She is cold.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Gary was in the popular group but kind of shy and Zaheera was in the popular group but kind of shy, so his friends and her friends set them up together, like an arranged marriage. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Tats just told him I was best friends with you, and that you were Farooq’s cousin.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

For she had decided simply to ignore it, this silly, persistent talk about their not being friends. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I tried to justify it to myself by saying that it was only because my friends were pledging, and I didn’t really care that much about the stupid club. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He sat on his bed and began to stare repeatedly at their new friend with expressions of offense and great disgust. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

My neighbor Mrs. B raved about living next door to an online celebrity and said she’d talked me up at her Mommy and Me class and forwarded my flyer to her friends at NASA. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

It sounded like Ishtar needed a friend just as much as her daughter did. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Excuse me, but I didn’t catch your names. Are you friends of Beatriz?” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“I understand. I would expect nothing less, my earnest and good young friend.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“El,” she continues, using my nickname for my best friend, “you’ve got to come back and try this stuff on.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I’m relieved it wasn’t from Kimberly or Molly or Sara trying to move in on my best friend while we were in a fight. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

No wonder she had picked me as a friend. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was quiet for a minute or so, and then he said, “I think Lyra’s braver than me. I think she’s the best friend I ever had.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Have you ever thought about the future?” he asked me, “and what this sort of thing will lead to? Supposing Mrs. Van Hopper gets tired of her ‘friend of the bosom,’ what then?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I had friends and a best friend to sit with at lunch. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

And to want your friends to back off from the boy you’re crushing on? A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

You might even say, “We don’t owe anyone our sadness, but the sharing of it is what friends do. It makes the sadness less. Friends don’t care if you like the same football squad.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

And then to the patrol leader, Karl adds, "We were just having a little fun. We'll be careful and make sure our friend gets home." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Clay called out to his friends as he got close, “Hullo! Feeling like a little gator stew tonight?” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, that was assuming he and his friends could get away. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

And 1 was holding someone who was destined to be my best friend, or possibly my worst enemy. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Aunt Loma said if her fee-ance and her best friend were that kind of trash, “it don’t speak so well for Love Simpson.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

By then, most of my friends and relatives had either been killed or had escaped the country to Pakistan or Iran. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

That his intentions were honorable and that he himself was certainly worthy of the doctor’s consideration as a gentleman friend for Miss Foster since, at twenty-five, he was already a colored man of property. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he says the word friend a cry comes out of him. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

A fancy one, like she used to make when she and Dad had dinner parties for their friends. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Anatole could be my father’s friend, if only he had a better grasp of the Scripture. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She smiled warmly at the housekeeper, whom she now considered a friend. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

My friends and I played cards and explored the maze of alleyways in the area. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

When he began to calm down I gave him directions to the house of my friend and attorney Dullah Omar, who lived in the Indian area of the city. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I'm worried that I won't make any new friends,” she said. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Family and friends had notified the Coast Guard, and boats and planes were searching as best they could. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Remember? We buy butter from friend who have farm. But sugar I have no memory of. I may have tasted sugar, but I have no memory of.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I toss my head back to call to a friend, and I notice something for the first time. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“Very old friend here—know everything about crickets.” The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of my friends had passports where the child died. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

But then again, lately, a lot of my friends were now more interested in boys and being popular than anything else. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

No matter how much trouble Lissa caused, I wanted to please her, to keep her as a friend. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Let’s not buy trouble. One day at a time, my friends. Who knows what tomorrow may bring?” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

After this semester, it wasn’t like she had any friends. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“Benji, if you keep buying people food and offering trips to Disney, they’ll want to hang out with you. But then how will you know who your real friends are?” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a miracle that she still has friends. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

She says, “This is you. Loyal. You are a loyal friend.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

If the Abbot or Cornflower or any of his friends knew of his scheme he would have no chance at all. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He recognized her even less when she threw her arm around him like an old friend. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

We ran into a boy named Ben, who happened to be one of Evan's best friends. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Nobody’s ever asked me to a party before, as a friend! Is that why you dyed your eyebrow, for the party? Should I do mine too?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Frank’s friends were all looking at him with concern. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Good, good. Thank you for your commiserations, my friend, and now you’d best be off, back to your confounded computer. I’m sorry to work you so.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

After our friend from New York hired a secretary and had his cards printed, Black approached the mark with a proposition. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think I should buy you a spot of supper. I’m afraid my friend here has some work that needs doing.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Regarding this self-description, Bobby explained to a friend that he had never been defeated. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Cowardice” brought to mind images of me fleeing a Mexican phone number and a trembling pink sweatshirt, me bailing on my gay friend Fang. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The five friends exchanged hugs, tears, stories, gasps, and laughter, and then walked together to the ground floor. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Gregg and Amber both used to call all the time, so when she got better and made more friends, she would need a phone. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Odysseus, the great tactician, answered: “My hand, friend; may the gods award you fortune. I hope no pressing need comes on you ever for this fine blade you give me in amends.” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he turns around and yells, “Elena! Your friend is here!” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

He must have had friends whose names were chiseled into the granite. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Even his closest friend, Okwudiba, often told him how humble he was, and it irked him slightly, because he wished Okwudiba would see that to call him humble was to make rudeness normal. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Part of me knows that I should’ve been encouraging my friend to use his talents all along and that I’ve been selfish. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Among his family’s friends, however, encouragement was easier to come by than cash. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

OK, so she was furious and even threatened to call the Las Vegas police and report my friend’s license plate number. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

A song about partying with friends by Toby Keith came on the radio, and there couldn’t have been a song that mismatched the mood more. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“But don’t you sit with her in class? I thought you were friends.” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Sometimes we talked and were good friends but to-night it was difficult. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He told me about his bowling team and some of his friends, and I began to feel I knew a lot of people in the town below the mountain. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m Tel’s friend,” he said, naming the girl who sold the tickets at the movie. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What’s this about, Dill? Why have you chosen this exact moment to bring this up? After years of being friends.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

He and his friend scurried away as Joaquin seemed to slump, all his bravado slinking away and leaving him like a shell. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I didn’t say anything else, so Cara finally said, “OK, then. It’s just that she’s a friend of mine, and she asked me to say hi, so I wanted to make sure I did.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He slapped a man across the face for weeping at the sight of his friend thrashing against the stocks. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

On the invitation of a friend, he went to stay at a cabin on the Cahuilla Indian Reservation, in southern California’s high desert. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

But if the secret Mexico trip was the defining test of my loyalty, I really earned my stripes when my sister and her best friend turned me into a legitimate stalker. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Yes, Lord, so very good. We have this wonderful food to eat and wonderful friends to enjoy it with. Now, bless us, Lord, and make us truly, truly grateful. Ah-men.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

He would not go about cap in hand to collect apologies from the friends who had shunned him. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“It’s okay for the two of you to be friends, as long as you’re always open and honest with us about everything. Is that fair?” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

An idea popped into my head of something I could share with my friend. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

And they did: “My friends inform me that Mr. A. speaks of me with great friendship,” Jefferson observed, “and with satisfaction in the prospect of administering the government in concurrence with me.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I bet I could make him eat. Otherwise you will lose your friend.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

He saw his friends’ faces more clearly again, and a measure of new hope and strength returned. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“You’re lucky to have a friend like Erin,” Coach says as we get into his truck and buckle up. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Who knows, my friend? Maybe the sword does possess some magic. Personally, I think it’s the warrior who wields it.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I want him to ask his friend AJ how his Monday was. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

It was six months after my best friend, Bluford Jackson, got firecrackers for Christmas and burned his hand on one and died of lockjaw ten days later. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

We hit it off very quickly, and he was clearly glad to have a friend in his new and, for him, very strange city. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Remove a chimpanzee from its mother, and it will still play with its friends and chow down on whatever you put in front of it. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Even after all this time, it can still be hard being friends with Auggie. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Taken by Armstrong’s argument, Bobby sent away for copies of the sermon and distributed it to his friends. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I heard Bull chuckling as he followed his wounded friend back to the road. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

So today, after I practice piano, I decide I’m going to try to make friends with the dog. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

I hold these things up as talismans to protect me; all my awards are thin paper shields to keep me safe from the hatred that surrounds me and my friends. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Plus, she was spending more time at her dad's apartment, which was close to her old friends. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The older he got, the longer he survived as a half-blood, the more his friends looked up to him. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

You’re a good friend, he tells Uncle Pa. He cries again till Uncle Pa pats him on the back. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Tuve upbraided Lawrence with all the authority of his six weeks’ advantage in age and with all the frank liberty afforded to one childhood friend speaking to another. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

As we reached Bonetti Ranch and turned the corner, we ran into Carlos and his two friends. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Many people came to the morgue to search for missing relatives and friends. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered I had promised to take Bill's friend Edna to see the bulls go through the street and into the ring. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

He'd been playing pickup basketball at the Y; after two hours he went off for a drink of water; he used a jump rope; his friends found him hanging from a water pipe. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was what made traveling appeal to him—he always made new friends, and he didn’t need to spend all of his time with them. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Who cared about the friend when I might have to work R-and-W tomorrow? Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

During holidays, he brought me cassettes and taught my friends and me how to dance to what we came to know as hip-hop. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Me and Smitty had been friends forever, been in the same class since third grade. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

I was a sophomore at Galileo High in San Francisco, and all my Caucasian friends agreed: I was about as Chinese as they were. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, no reason. We used to be friends, that’s all. I thought she might be interested in our lives.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Why would Mom go out with her friend instead of coming home? We’ve hardly seen her!” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Pain had never been a friend to me before, but now it kept me still. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He had a few friends at the beginning of his engineering career, but the more successful he became, the more fearful he grew of someone discovering his true identity and exposing him. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

We looked in the thick forest for Junior and our friends, but they weren’t anywhere to be found. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Every time my friends came home from a field trip, I felt so left out. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Tab, Patrick is my actual friend now. Remember?” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“My best friend’s father has Alzheimer’s. It’s such a dreadful disease, and it causes him to act so strangely.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

We spent the night, and the next day I called a friend, who said he could borrow the money from his dad to get us out. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

On the way out of town we ran into one of his friends, an older boy wearing a blinding yellow tracksuit and fake gold chains. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

That had always been part of the fun of being his friend. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“I wasn’t apologizing. But it’s hard not to have my claws out all the time. I don’t have friends like you do. There’s no one there to walk down the hallway with me.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“But you have so many friends,” I said. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Emma said, actually throwing her arms around the older girl’s waist as though she were a friend, not a total stranger. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

A friend of mine belonged, that blond girl who had commented on my reading. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And your mother had an imaginary friend. You ever had one?” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our mom and dad were pretty strict compared to our friends’ parents. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

But then, as my friend told me, the why of your absence doesn’t really matter. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

At a mass meeting, King announced that, until the Supreme Court’s order arrived, “we will continue to walk and share rides with friends.” Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Suddenly my friends are on the screen, waving, angling for face time, hamming it up. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

He and his friends had named it the Pirate Tree because in the fall, bright yellow leaves made it look covered in gold coins. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He had at first been excited by Facebook, ghosts of old friends suddenly morphing to life with wives and husbands and children, and photos trailed by comments. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Did you ever find yourself, without admitting it, tangled up with your best friend? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

No one would have mistaken the two for friends. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Someone said to a friend, “You sure was a long time delivering that baby. How long was you in labor?” Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Bonding over shared interests in sports and music, the two became good friends. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

“The count was done by a blind man with your fat friend by his elbow. And Slynt names you a tum- cloak.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It had been a long time since Emily had been in a friend’s house. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“What if it was? What if Jules snuck in here, maybe with one of her friends? Maybe the Viking had a hand in all this? Your locker went untouched.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I got to know his teammates and their friends. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He’s talking to me as though we’re friends instead of enemies. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

"Jimmy always liked it better down East. He rose up to his position in the East. Were you a friend of my boy's, Mr.--?" The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“There isn’t anything you’ve kept from your friend here? Certainly she couldn’t hold it against you if revealing it is for her own benefit?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“You know, I hated moving to that house. I hated the kids at Queen Mary’s, and those boring things like skipping. I didn’t really have any good friends there, except for you.” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Ah, Harry, how often this happens, even between the best of friends! Each of us believes that what he has to say is much more important than anything the other might have to contribute!” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Yes, they’re online friends. I know them from the math forums and the tutoring websites.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Now my best friend and I are the oldest cholos in the barrio. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He liked other people too much for that, and friends could help push away the loneliness. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Not entirely, my friend. Their efforts were halfhearted, I say, but this, more than anything, was because they were afraid of you.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered Gramps’s most terrifying Betsy story, about one of his friends who’d been bitten by a water moccasin while making his way through the flooded streets. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

They had become almost like friends, or like enemies that respected each other. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tell me,” she said, intimate, a friend to a friend, “have you been doing anything you shouldn’t?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, Madam Mina, I knew that the friend of that poor lily girl must be good, but I had yet to learn——” He finished his speech with a courtly bow. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

But her African friends all had jobs, and college students got jobs all the time with no experience. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Danger, a quest, three figures. They are close to you, but they are not your friends.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I saw you on the television. I’m awfully sorry about your friend. I wouldn’t be here if I wasn’t, if I didn’t think you could help.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

His mind resisted the hidden messages...but maybe not as much as his friends’ did. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

We don’t seek out friends, in other words. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we first got together, I thought it might be weird to date a friend, someone who’d known me so long. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Nobody wants to be friends with the fat kid. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

And I know for a fact that five minutes after I had left Charley he had found new friends and had made his arrangements for his comfort. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What? Afraid you might lose and ruin all of your friends’ dreams of a college education at the same time?” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

And so am I. So it’s not odd for us to be friends. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It must be hard for the teachers, looking, to figure out why we are friends, what we’re doing together. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

One friend used to like to annoy me by saying, “Taliban is good, army not good.” Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The son raised his ax and rushed at the murderer but was wrestled to the ground by friends; then the murderer came at the prostrate son with an ax and was also wrestled down. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry, Percy Jackson, but your friend is beyond help.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I’d traveled the Congo this way once or twice in my life, but more for fun when visiting village friends. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

He’s never had a friend before, boy or girl. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He kept a brave face before his friends, assuring them he would ride again, but they didn’t believe it and neither did he. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But what good are friends when they don’t listen? Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Our neighbors are the Kecoughtans, our friends, and the Warraskoyacks—I know everyone in the village by name. I can trade if we run short of food....” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I could not let my friend take the blame in my stead. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We climbed down the tower to join our friends, where we exchanged tearful goodbyes with Claire and Fiona under the big shade tree. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Praise the Lord, hallelujah, my friends! for Jesus will make you itch like nobody’s business. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So it looks as if the task of retrieving it will be up to you, my small friends.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Amá doesn’t have any friends and sees no point to having any. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It said I'm brave and smart and kind to my friends. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pretended not to see Annabeth wipe a tear from her cheek as she listened to the mournful keening of Cerberus in the distance, longing for his new friend. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

And together they’d convinced other Liberian friends to try out for the team, only to have them bail out when they realized they’d have to get their hair cut. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Back they went, to the Dormitory, greeting old friends—many of them larger in size now, their bellies growing as they waited—and taking their places again in the group. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“For that matter,” said Timothy, “I don’t even see why the owl wanted to help. He’s no friend of ours, either.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Most of my dad’s German friends had left for Cape Town. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

An odd reaction, I know, considering she’d been one of my closest friends. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m on a Lorde kick this week and could be listening to more of her music before class, but I got my best friend pants on because Dylan is thrown off by Samantha right now. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

She had been visiting friends back in Chicago and thus Geyer had been unable to telegraph the news to her directly. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

They were good friends, even though they sometimes said bad words, and that day I became a part of their gang. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

My friends always boasted that their fathers never laid a hand on them. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

In his own high school years, Volpe had been protected by his football-playing friends, his fellow altar boys from Maternity Blessed Virgin Mary. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

‘Such deeds he loves: friend at war with friend; loyalty divided in confusion of hearts.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He had a small group of friends and a large group of admirers. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said, “No. You, my friends, are the true heroes.” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

While writing this book, I conducted more than a thousand hours of interviews with family and friends of Henrietta Lacks, as well as with lawyers, ethicists, scientists, and journalists who’ve written about the Lacks family. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“I told you, and you didn’t listen. Now your precious hideout is burning, and I’m gonna hunt down all your little friends and put all their miserable hides with the rest of my collection.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Once they got to high school, we gave the girls curfews—first 11:00 and eventually midnight—and enforced them, according to Malia and Sasha, with more vigor than many of their friends’ parents did. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

We need enormous pockets, pockets big enough for our families, and our friends, and even the people who aren’t on our lists, people we’ve never met but still want to protect. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the dream his friends rode with him, as they had in life. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“They say he is a good friend to you.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were too afraid to break the news over the phone, and so they waited for his closest childhood friend to be able to tell him in person. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“What happened was your uncles and their friends were unhappy with the government and they had a plan that the SIM found out about.” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

The power of easterly Rock was far away, and there were no friends of the Lannisters in the Vale of Arryn. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“I know what I said, but I’m not spending Saturday night with your little friends, Merci.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The truth was the least she owed her friend. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Your friends, after all, occupy the same world that you do. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Good Lord, Turner III, she’s almost as old as I am. Every second thought is about dying. And she doesn’t have any friends before her gone anyway.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

My friend Ana Diaz was among them and ran to embrace me. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And anyway, it isn't a friend that I need. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Our friends and loved ones were used to attending debutant balls, but since I didn’t have one the year before, this party was like my make-up quinceañera. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Mom may speak the language, but it’s been hard for her to make friends, and drive on the opposite side of the road. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Although Betty and her friends had certain rights, women in the United States were still not completely equal; their images were used to sell things. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Bestie and best friend take the exact same amount of time to say. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

I’m grateful—to have her, Thaya Jaan, my family, and friends in my life, both in Pakistan and here at home. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

In turn, Smith put up with Howard’s love of the spotlight, the long stream of friends and reporters he brought to the barn, his need to be in the center of things. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cleopatra put her future in the hands of her trusted friend, Apollodorus. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

I have loving parents and a sixteen-year-old sister, and there are about thirty people I can call friends. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Without some facial surgery, I might play the perfect game of hide-and-seek—never emerging to make friends. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Pong watched his friend stir his noodles from one side of his bowl to the other and back again. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

"Don't trouble him on my account! My friend here can barely keep up with me as it is." A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

After talking to a friend on the phone, she had started to read and must have dozed off. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Woodhull had studied the Vanderbilt family, and she collected additional information about them from a friend, Josie Mansfield, who was the girlfriend of one of Vanderbilt’s competitors. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

My friends had, in any case, turned away and were carrying on with what they’d been doing. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

LeAlan: But yet you let your brother throw your friend out the window? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in none of his stories did Baba ever refer to Ali as his friend. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

If only I hadn’t trusted my best friend. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

I found one: I decided I would no longer, in the presence of my friends, speak Venda, my father’s tribal language. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Otto stood on my head, slapped his hands on my forehead to keep his balance, and murped at the boys, who had lined up in front to wave good-bye to their new friend. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“OK, I tried to steal something, and he caught me, So I threatened him with my friends and he let me go on the condition that I took him to meet my gang.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

In prison, one has time to review the past, and memory becomes both friend and foe. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to meet a friend of mine who’s also a friend of yours,” she said. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a mixed bag of political power players and family friends in attendance—including Rafael Luna, who falls under the heading of both. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I kiss my parents on the cheeks and join my friends. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“Goat boy needs help. We will find the god person. I am not like Hephaestus. I trust friends.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

You were my best friend when I was six! Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

It had happened to so many of my friends. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Others would lose far more—their family members and friends. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

“What? I’m just making sure she knows she doesn’t have to worry about making friends!” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

I am not one to let somebody pound on my best friend’s scrawny back. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

“Yes. There’s plenty in the market­ place. And you can borrow clothes, too, from my friend Jean. She’s about your size.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“Come on, Beatrice. We wouldn’t want to bother your friend’s sister.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Her home, which at one time was open to the greats in the worlds of art, business, and politics, is now closed to all but her staff, her advisors, and a few close friends. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I never went to the cove and whenever I saw the hunters with their long spears skimming over the water, I was angry, for these animals were my friends. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He liked the name, referred to himself by it, preferred that his closest friends use it, and gave it to every dog he ever owned. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The friend who had pretended to be ill buried his share of the money in a tin box. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Now he knew his friend was worried about his future. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Theoretically, only you can see me. But when an imaginary friend is left to his own devices, alone and forgotten...who knows?” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

They already have something else in mind—a friend to call, a fax to send, a lover they’re daydreaming about. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Friends, colleagues, at work. My dad has friends at work.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

He’d have six good friends who would admire and appreciate him, and they’d go sailing off into the sunrise to fight giants. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He has friends who jeer along with him, as if he is the boss. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Weed was my friend, weed kept me running from the truth. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a friend that worked in a print shop, and with his help we printed over a hundred copies of the letter. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“You ever have a secret so big that you were afraid to be friends with folks, to let them get close? Because if they found out about that secret it could be bad for everyone?” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

She said her father, my grandfather, Kirby, and Malloy were pretty much best friends, which is why she trusted him to look after me. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“When a friend asks for support, you should help them to the best of your abilities, even if you feel it isn’t worth it,” he says gently. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

But surely no real friend would keep us sitting on those hard seats long enough for a hundred people to testify. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s gratified her to go to all this effort— to make a final, celebratory meal for her children, her friends. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I felt awkward sitting by myself when everyone else was with friends. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t believe how he’d broken down when his friends had needed him. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Give me that corn, you bandit,” he said and, laughing happily to see his old friend again, picked her up and hugged her. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The man got into the cab and started the truck while his two friends jumped in the back Grampa watched them drive away. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

You will eat lunch at school with friends. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Telling me I need to choose my friends better. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

It took my friend Lula Gates a long time to live down the ignominy of getting sick in public at the piano recital. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I wrote letters to my friends who were still in Kakuma. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see some cheerleaders and their boy friends parked over there under the light. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tells his friend Émile Bernard that he wishes he could paint more from his imagination, like Bernard can, but he's most comfortable painting outside in nature. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

And have your white friend say how funny it is, that American pollsters ask white and black people if racism is over. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He must see how absorbed I was by him; he must not want to lead me on ... so we couldn’t even be friends . . . because he wasn’t interested in me at all. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Karl’s heart sank for his friend, but he also feared for himself. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

That while I would certainly be friendly, that didn’t necessarily mean I was his friend. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Though I think just as a friend. Anyway, you were right. I did need other friends. Even if they aren’t friends as good as you.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Monday, Tía Mari sent the girls and Oscar and Doña Margot away to their friends with the beach house. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

How could I have predicted I would make a friend in Iran? Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

If that happened, she wasn’t sure Hecate would be able—or willing—to stop the giant from crushing her and her friends. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the ink-black hair is his real color and perhaps the little boy genuinely came here with some friends and will go back home tonight, to his mother. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

In my junior year of high school, me and three of my close friends began to hold the meetings of what would soon become the infamous Geek Club. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is not easy to be a true friend. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Janie and Bill would often bring their little friends home from school with them, and they would all go down and watch the penguins for hours. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Thought your friends were going to join you, did you? Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

“And I want to be friends. Or something. I don’t know. I just hate this.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

He went on, “On your return tell your people that I take them all by the hand; that I become their father hereafter, that they shall know our nation only as friends and benefactors.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“They aren’t mean to me, but they probably think the same thing. That I’m a weirdo who doesn’t have any friends. I mean, they’d be right.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

My friends and I move in different directions. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Anyone who was a friend of your parents was automatically called “auntie” or “uncle.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

However it had happened, Jason was elated to see their old friend in action once more. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“And your name will be in all the newspapers. Earthworm gives life to save friends...” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Then, taking his friend’s advice, he permanently dismissed his bodyguards as being too obvious and therefore potentially dangerous. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered a cat playing with a rubber ball somewhere...a kitten a girl friend had gotten for her birthday...and it was hiding behind a chair leg eyeing the ball...stalking it. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Over the years that followed, many of the men and women on his team became my colleagues and friends. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Lord Plumm, who are | these two friends of yours? The pink one is annoying.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I get my phone out and snap photos of him riding my bike, his back to me as he stands on the pedals, while his friends play handball. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

In addition to my Navajo buddies two of my white friends who had survived the other campaigns were there with me. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was the only one Doha could think of who could save his friend. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I’m pleased to have found a friend at these balls, where I expected to find only tedium. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t wait to see my friends and hang out in our new space. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Only my friend Robbie. He doesn’t say very much, but I know he’s interested.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

But there was no need—a few feet away stood Ambrose and a few of his friends. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They were close friends as a matter of fact. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Brent sauntered up to me and said, “Jubilee, I’ve heard so much about you. I think what you and your friends have done here is awesome, and I’m happy to be a part of it.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Even if he was just going out to play in the streets with Woody and some other friends, he wore that jersey like a badge of honor. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Emeline’s family and friends did receive copies of the announcement through the mail, and indeed these appeared to have been addressed by Emeline herself. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

So when Tamika invited me to go swimming at her house that afternoon, I figured a swim, and a friend, might help me feel better. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

She didn’t know what he expected her to say but finally came up with, “My best friend in camp had a plaid skirt. Her mom got the material from the Sears catalog.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Or who the wealthy friends in the sky were,” Amaka said. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to secure a friend, and not to make an enemy, so I thanked him, gave the address at Dr. Seward’s and came away. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“The other two pieces were built by my friend Rose.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Nothing else could explain how quickly she’d changed, abandoning the rest of them for parties and hot showers, leaving her friends behind, just as Peris had so many months ago. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Maybe fifth grade will be the year of earmuffs and the second year without a friend who is not a fish or in a book. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Watching Justin and his friends that day, I got the sense that there was more to her than I knew. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

She played because she was fighting with her sister and best friend, the person she loved most in the world. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The boat passengers wave wildly, laughing and yelling the names of friends and family. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had acquired, at some time, a friend of Bill's from Biarritz. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

My best friend in high school was a Jew. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

I remember that my father worked alongside American soldiers—like friends. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

One of Jerome’s friends was taping a light to the wall. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It has been years since he’s been Gogol to anyone other than his family, their friends. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Look for songs with themes of friends, help, or general encouragement. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“So my father’s cop friend didn’t get an ID on the woman.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

But as I wave bye to my friends and we walk toward our buses, it feels like we’re each moving in different directions in other ways too. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

That my very own friends sank the kayak and killed Ben. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Are you saying that as a supportive friend or because you’re not ready for a test?” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Many of the men and women carrying placards were old friends of mine, and they were chanting for higher wages for Works Progress Administration artists and writers. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

They walked up and down the block, arms about each other’s waists, the way girl friends did in Brooklyn. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know how you can say what a good friend would do, Julia. It’s not like you’re such a good friend anymore!” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

“Kurdish people. I have friends again. Don’t you want me to have friends?” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

We spent the night with Father’s friends, pasturing the cattle in one of their fields. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

They speak with the ease of people who have known each other for years, and the excitement of new friends with new stories. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I didn’t tell him the real reason why I didn’t want to stay with his friends. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I’m a mouse. Squeak, squeak. Now shoo-shoo back to your little bug friends,” said Ripred, picking up a hunk of dried beef. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Hans and his friends would become haunted by their war experiences. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I sit with my friends at the lunch tables.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

And I was thankful to be in the company of friends who appreciated the miracle of it all. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

If Cecile cared where Fern put her period and if Papa’s lady friend was nice, or if Vonetta planned on being a flower girl, she didn’t mention it in her letter to me. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Make him your friend,” he said again, and cleared his throat noisily. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The front porch to sit on and talk with a friend. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Some of her friends—students with solid academic records and all sorts of talents and accomplishments—had gotten shot down left and right as early applicants to schools like Brown, Amherst, and Yale. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matthias sensed that Julian and Snow had once been good friends. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Mr. Leroy said, “He help a friend and I needs to talk to him.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

But on other Saturdays they went to see a movie; they went to see a play; they visited his friends; they walked through Central Park. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

We used to be good friends, a long time before she gave me that Famous Deaf People in History book. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

She told him about the cans, and Lizzie’s new friend, Looper, and what Looper was doing. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Our dirty-fingered friend seems to have taken the keys. Or do you see them anywhere?” he inquired of the boy who was still pointing his gun at Meggie and her mother. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I think I am Latino, so I interacted with friends and other classmates who are Latino, so I could learn about some of my past. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It didn’t seem likely to her that a friend of the buffalo boy would know how she could see the king, but as she didn’t have any ideas of her own, she would hope. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The man reached out, gently cradled the back of Olakunde’s skull, and forced my friend to look down, and then to fall upon his knees. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

They talked about their first mission, taking children, a brother and sister, out of the program and secreting them away through a series of friends and allies. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Pattie assumed that relatives would fly into town or that family friends would, once alerted, take over. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

A diploma meant more to Henry than to most of his friends. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

She had no friends, yet she was the friendliest person in school. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

I guess while he was gone, he got a call from a friend who said he could have his couch. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Angeline’s favorite friend, young Ten Snow, came by to visit almost every day. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“I want to stay alive, right here in my comfortable manure pile with all my friends. I want to breathe the beautiful air and lie in the beautiful sun.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

I remember what happened to my best friend, Bugs, when a cockroach crawled in his ear one night at the Home. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

I think Mrs. Krajewska was only going to ask my friends to be quieter, not leave. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Rather than hitting flesh, he knocked out of my hand the glass thermos bottle that my friend Mr. Luftig had given me as a parting gift. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

I had no friends, I loved dogs, and muscles were cool—that’s where I was working from. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

And through it all, Alex realizes with a start: He has friends now. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She put her hand with the ring on it in her hair and said, “Oskar, Ron is my friend.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Not until right now do I realize just how much I’ve needed a magician friend. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“We all have friends in high places, don’t we?” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have friends coming over every day—we lived too far out to have any white neighbors. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Cain’s attention was on Celaena as he said, “You were brought here—all of you were. All the players in the unfinished game. My friends,” he gestured to the dead, “have told me so.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

All the while I came back to visit Youzek and Hela almost every day, and soon I became good friends with the Gamzers too. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Fay’s new boy friend is a dance instructor from the Stardust Ballroom. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

What saved him were some friends from his hometown in High Point, Curtis and Minnie Ware. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neil smoothly tossed a balled-up paper napkin into the trash from across the room, and then he and his friends walked out side together. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

"Baba provides just fine! So many of his friends in London still can't find permanent jobs—he found one as soon as he got here." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He’d schemed his way out of that one and saved his friends all by himself, but at least he’d had time to think. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The next morning, severely hungover, he was extremely agitated; before ascending the Icefall he confided to a friend that he’d seen ghosts in the night. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The Nightingale watched Anya introduce her friends, and then he took the charcoal pencil from her. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

He’d spent most of the last month with Zooey or couch surfing at various friends’ houses, but now that he was back home, he seemed hell-bent on making up for lost time. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“My friend’s step-uncle lives in Queens, too,” I say for some reason. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

A few faces are familiar, schoolmates I remember, but not my friends, not the faces of my dreams. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

He doubted you could game during work hours, or scarf new software from the Web, “bum” a friend’s CD, or go on ICQ chat lines and trade funny commercials with friends you’d never met. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But neighbors, friends, and family knew better than to protest, knowing and fearing that they would be next. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Atal was saying, nudging Mary’s pocket with her trunk, so Mary took the spyglass and did as her friend said, pointing it up to the sky. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Other people might need to add in friends or sports or money or something else, but my equation is already solved. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Their red capes shimmered in the orange light around them as they made their way toward their friend. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I glad-handed from hell to breakfast, winning friends and conning people,” he wrote. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t much past first light, hut mv friend L.D. was over in a wagon that his brother was driving into Marshall for some seed. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I just... don’t want our friend here getting hurt. Is Tyson a fighter?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

But it is a place where bodies were stacked, and I don't want to make friends with trees that once hid the dead. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The house went to the bank, and I lived with various friends for a few months at a time, sleeping on their couches or more often on the floor. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Having his close friend Chester Arthur as vice president wasn't enough for Conkling. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Ignoring the sarcasm in his lifelong friend’s voice, Amarante thumbed back the hammer, took careful aim . . . and blew the second bottle into just as spectacular smithereens. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d had time to ponder their forthcoming trip, and he’d decided he would rather go alone or, better yet, invite some friend to go along with him. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

I don’t want him to ask me about school and friends or anything. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure what Suraya’s friend did exactly, because no backup generator has come on yet. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He lay with his face to the wall and waited for his friends to doze off. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

They had been friends for years, and Jaime often went to play chess with him at night. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My dear friend,” said Mr. Pumblechook, taking me by both hands, when he and I and the collation were alone, “I give you joy of your good fortune. Well deserved, well deserved!” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

“In town, once, I heard a man brag how he and his friends had caught a free black, tore up his papers, and sold him to a trader.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Some of my friends get yelled at when they break stuff in their house. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

On the first Sunday in May 2011, I went to dinner with two friends at a restaurant downtown, leaving Barack and my mother in charge of the girls at home. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

When school started, she looked right through me in the halls, her new friends draped around her neck like Mardi Gras necklaces. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

A few days later, friends of Farmer’s found a homeless shelter for Joe, but of course the social workers had to remind Farmer that shelter rules forbade alcohol consumption. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“A scythe is a friend to the world. Open your arms and embrace it.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I think of the Boom Chachalacas, how hard it was for us to come together, how hard we’ve worked, how it was that we ever became friends. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

You cannot declare a book you have hidden yourself or one that has been hidden by a Book Scavenger friend. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

September 2 Afternoon Laugh Back The pink boy and two loud friends follow me home. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

My friend Jeff said he was going to pull my computer plug out of the wall if I didn’t bring this mission to a conclusion. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even my Japanese and Korean friends say that they sometimes have difficulty guessing whether someone is Japanese or Korean just by looking at his or her face. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone in the world but Francie had a sweetheart or a friend. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not a friend in the world who means anything to me, and no one I mean anything to.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Most days, I am in here with my grandfather, holding his hand while he sleeps fluffing pillows and telling him stories about my friends back home. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Why can’t you invite your friends over to the house and listen to music like before?” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

"Had she taken a bullfighter I would have understood," he remarked in wonder to a friend. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I used to flaunt this fact to my friends at school. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

After graduating third in his class from Harvard University, Ellsberg stunned friends and professors alike by applying for officer’s training with the Marine Corps. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He was at a different school now, with different friends. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

And I sure don’t like the way she said all my friends. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

At suppertime, the hand can opener quickly became our best friend. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

His friends jumped off their stools and hurried over at the sight of him. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Frank would’ve preferred to go with his friends, even if it meant he had to endure green tea with wheat germ. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Outside, he could hear the squeal of children and the shouts of the neighbors, for his friends thought he might be inside the burning house. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Dude. Have you met him? Isn’t he supposed to be your best friend or whatever? He’s gay. Like, Fire-Island-on-the-Fourth-of-July gay. Did you really not know?” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

If the people at the bunker were going to Ashville to face whoever gave them their orders, then Mark and his friends were going, too. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Magdalys glanced at the frightened faces of her friends, then looked up to the back of the wagon, where the magistrate stood staring at her with his searchlight eyes. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I miss everything about Syria: my house, my friends, my aunts and uncles, my cousins. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing to do with the little that was left of the day but to visit the kind white friends who had realized her feelings and thank them. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

She wants to stay friends with all of us. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Poppy had said this singling-out treatment often happened to Palestinians, even Palestinian-Americans, but one of Poppy's Palestinian friends had had a better arrival recently, when an Israeli customs agent actually said to him, “Welcome home.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He could see it in his friends, many of whom had gotten married while he was away. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there is a great difference between a noise heard letting you in with your friends in the morning, and a noise heard alone at nightfall, shutting you out. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

I told her she could see her friends in London, but Manderley was mine. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Makgatho then told his friend that my real name was Nelson Mandela. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Will was beside me—tears on his face—and he sobbed that John was hit, that friend John was down. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Stanley didn’t want his friend to drive me there, so I walked. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Taker never texted or phoned his friends to see where they were or what had happened. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Somewhere ahead there was a boy who had been her best friend. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I had shared a cake with my friends. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I’m sure going to miss school and my friends. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Pointing to his hat, he added, “Bill Smith gave me that hat, and he is my friend.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“My daughter and her friends wanted to stay an extra night, so we did.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

And so I booked us an appointment with a downtown psychologist who came recommended by a friend, and Barack and I went to see him a handful of times. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

In one way it’s a relief, but then again, it would be better if he was home, because that would mean that Kaori’s friend is safe and sound. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Cheap fighters, hers. Meat for heroes. Your friend dead soon.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Thus to Ged, who had lost faith in himself, Vetch had given that gift only a friend can give, the proof of unshaken, unshakable trust. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

We are very good friends now, and I’ve begun to take lessons. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

But behind the shutters, our friends of yesterday were probably waiting for the moment when they could loot our homes. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I just wanted to get it away from my friends. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

One of the small ways Stanton showed solidarity with her feminist friends was to wear “bloomers,” the controversial new fashion, a below-the-knee skirt worn over loosely fitting pants. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

If you do, you will find an old faithful friend waiting for you. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

After that, I will somehow pull myself away from my best friend and her daughter, and I will have to go and live. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

At dinner the other night with Wambui and some friends, Curt had reached out and refilled a wineglass here, a water glass there. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“She’s my friend; she sits with us,” Mike whispered back loyally, but also a bit territorially. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She joins the Soviet Air Force with her best friend, Nina, and they form a pilot-gunner team in a bomber plane. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Dark-eyed Nademah had heard about it from friends, convinced Kathy to buy the DVD, and since then the three girls had seen it a dozen times—every night for two weeks. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“I have cast my lot with my friend, and I will contrive some way to go to him. But your safety is the matter now at hand.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He’s paid more attention than the others and cared about me the way a friend should. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Or that my friends don’t really want to hear from me. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Then I walked out with my three friends. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

"Yeah, yeah. She just stepped away to say hi to a friend," I say, debating if I dare ask for a ride. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I didn't have siblings and my dad never had friends over to hang out on the couch and talk back to the television set. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Tyan yanked the scarf off my face and smiled at his friends and family, never even looking at me. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I began firing Mr. Muhammad’s teaching at the New York members and the few friends they managed to bring in. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I contemplated calling his house, but his parents were friends with my parents, so that wouldn’t work. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

And I still had my best friend Benny. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

“We lost one of our friends. Mary Lou. Have you seen her?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

There would be great danger, not only for himself but also for his Sparra friends. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“What rest? You mean the not working, the staying out all night, the bums he has for friends?” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sound like Alan when he squabbles with his little friends. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

If I could have one, maybe friends would all bring me gifts as well. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

So I turned away with a shrug and rejoined my friends. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She positively glowed as she told me about the hot meals and the hot showers and all the friends she’d made. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t want him to think I blew him off today because of my so-called friends. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z