The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, "What? You too? I thought I was the only one."

C. S. Lewis · The popular "Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another..." is a tidied paraphrase of this sentence.

To love at all is to be vulnerable.

C. S. Lewis · From the closing chapter on Charity; the next sentence runs "Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken."

More Friendship Quotes

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Often credited to Aristotle · A modern reworking: what Diogenes Laertius records is Aristotle's answer to the question "What is a friend?", namely "A single soul dwelling in two bodies."

Love is friendship that has caught fire.

Ann Landers · The opening line of her "Love or Infatuation?" column, the piece readers asked her to rerun more than any other; it continues "It takes root and grows, one day at a time."

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Attributed to Walter Winchell · Winchell printed a version in his 1933 column, but the saying was already in circulation by 1916 and nobody knows who coined it.