hey hey we're the monkeys

I lean on them. I keep them up at night. I talk to them about the same things over and over. They know my fears, my quirks, my clumsiness, and my procrastination. They hold me accountable, ask me the hard questions, and force me to grow. They love me, they make me laugh, they speak my language. They hug me. They put up with me. They believe in me. This semester, I've needed them more than ever. I need you still. I love you-- Nicole and Julie.

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."
~C. S. Lewis



"Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing."
~Elie Wiesel



"Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him: a new friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou shall drink it with pleasure."
~Apocrypha