Citations:best friend

English citations of best friend

• 1959, Marjorie Meyn Vetter, Laura Vitray, The Questions Girls Ask: Inspired by the Original Book by Helen Welshimer, page 70

  What about a best friend? Many girls say they need not only friends, but also one "best friend".

• 1978, American sociological review, volume 43, page 241

  Since our interest is in the exclusiveness of best friend relationships

• 1987, Armistead Maupin, Carl Dennis Buell, Significant Others, page 217

  "Who's your best friend now?" Booter took the easy way out. ... "I guess I don't have a best friend right now."

• 1995, Ursula Hegi, Stones from the River, page 204

  She hadn't thought she'd ever have a best friend again.

• 1997, Caroline Knapp, Drinking: A Love Story, page 104

  It's not at all unusual in AA to hear people refer to alcohol as a best friend, and to mean that on the most visceral level:

• 2002, Cassandra King, The Sunday Wife", page 383

  Your so-called best friend. How can you live with yourself after what you did to her?"

• 2004, Sophie Kinsella, Shopaholic & Sister, page 68

  I'm Suze's best friend. Everyone knows that. "Lulu moved into the village six months ago ... "Every girl needs a best friend," says the other woman wisely.

• 2006, Deborah Tannen, You're Wearing That?: Understanding Mothers and Daughters in Conversation, page 146

  When daughters are young, the best-friend role goes only one way: daughters tell mothers their problems, but mothers don't tell daughters their own.

• 2007, Linda Urban, A Crooked Kind of Perfect, page 27

  My best friend at school is Emma Dent. I say she's my best friend at school because we don't see each other outside of school.