Give your friendships the magic you would give a romance. Because they're just as important. Actually, for us, they're way more important.
I've learnt some Things. Like the way friendship can be just as intense, beautiful and endless as romance. Like the way there's love everywhere around me - there's love for my friends, there's love for my paintings, there's love for myself.
Rooney dropped to her knees. Georgia, I am never going to stop being your friend. And I dont mean that in the boring average meaning of friend where we stop talking regularly when were twenty-five because weve both met nice young men and gone off to have babies, and only get to meet up twice a year. I mean Im going to pester you to buy a house next door to me when were forty-five and have finally saved up enough for our deposits. I mean Im going to be crashing round yours every night for dinner because you know I cant fucking cook to save my life, and if Ive got kids and a spouse, theyll probably come round with me, because otherwise theyll be living on chicken nuggets and chips. I mean Im going to be the one bringing you soup when you text me that youre sick and cant get out of bed and ferrying you to the doctors even when you dont want to go because you feel guilty about using the NHS when you just have a stomach bug. I mean were gonna knock down the fence between our gardens so we have one big garden, and we can both get a dog and take turns looking after it. I mean Im going to be here, annoying you, until were old ladies, sitting in the same care home, talking about putting on a Shakespeare because were all old and bored as shit.
Shall we start over?' I say. Juliet shrugs. 'No. This has been an important part of our friendship development.
We both say, 'Aaaaaay,' at the same time, and I think that means we're friends.