60 Best Friend Quotes from Famous Novels Perfect for Captions - Greeting Cards

Kapanlagi.com - Literature is the most potential form of art that enchants readers and immerses them in a series of words. The beautiful arrangement of words always makes readers want to quote them. The quotes can vary, ranging from love in poetry, life in short stories, to best friend quotes from novels.

Best friend quotes from famous novels are widely found on various social media platforms. For example, the novels Filosofi Kopi, Bumi Manusia, and Harry Potter have many readers. Readers usually quote their favorite quotes and insert them into their social media posts or photo captions.

If you are interested in doing the same, here are some best friend quotes from famous novels that you can read.

1. Friendship Quotes from the Novel Filosofi Kopi Filled with Struggles

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The initial conflict regarding the search for the taste of coffee carried out by two friends in Filosofi Kopi produces heartfelt friendship quotes from the novel. The story of the struggles of coffee makers written by Dewi Lestari contains dialogues or narrations that have the potential to be quoted. Readers can easily find friendship quotes from this novel to be quoted and shared with their friends.

If you feel less observant in finding friendship quotes from the novel Filosofi Kopi, you can refer to the following list.

1. "Our friendship is like a brewed coffee, the surface is rough. But when you taste it and get to know it deeper, you won't be able to forget it."

2. "In your silence, I hear many voices. Your silence speaks."

3. "You and Jody are like the left and right beans. Although one is taller than the other, you both exist in the same habitat."

4. "But what truly makes this place special is Ben. He doesn't just brew and taste the coffee, but also contemplates the coffee he makes."

5. "You and I are like the heart and the head." The heart and mind always have their own problems, but one can't survive without the other."

6. "And coffee never chooses who is worthy of enjoying it. In front of coffee, we are all the same."

7. "Just a cup of coffee that tells me that black is not always dirty and bitter is not always sad."

8. "No matter how beautiful the engraved letters are, can they have meaning without pauses? Can they be understood without spaces?"

9. "A small step from a good intention can lead us to something beyond imagination."

10. "If you want one, then don't take two. Because one completes, but two disappears."

11. "Hold my hand, but not too tightly, because I want to walk alongside you, not be led."

12. "Love is experiencing. Opening up is not the same as surrendering."

13. "Chosen love should be followed in every step, intertwining fingers, and walk together."

14. "If life didn't evolve, if a moment could forever become a fossil undisturbed, if cosmic power could stagnate at one point, then without hesitation you would choose one second with them to be immortalized. Just one."

15. "Love needs to be nurtured. In its unpredictable journey, love still needs mechanisms to survive."

16. "First coffee this morning. Black. Like the silhouette of your sleeping face on my shoulder, during a journey."

17. "When coffee becomes a true friend, mornings are no longer a mystery. Like you, who are always in my heart, always filling my days."

18. "There are many ways for me to wait for your arrival without boredom, sitting sweetly while slowly enjoying my coffee."

19. "This longing is so simple; the scent of coffee is flown, beautifully attached to your soft cheeks, then coloring the seconds of time."

20. "Full moon, stars in every corner of the sky, a cup of coffee, the strangeness of the heart, longing for something that is super difficult to overcome, which is you."

2. Friendship Quotes from the Novel

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This novel, Bumi Manusia by Pramoedya Ananta Toer, tells a rather complicated story of friendship. The reason is that many quotes about friendship from this novel are found in conversations between future mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law or with friends who have a significant age difference. This proves that friendship does not always come from stories of people of the same age.

Pram successfully presents the fact that the relationship between parents and children in Java at that time was not always rigid. Love and care for knowledge made the relationship between the protagonist characters even more fascinating. Here is a list of friendship quotes from the novel Bumi Manusia that you can read.

21. "Mama will be angry if I don't love her. You must be grateful for everything that gives you life, Mama said, even if it's a horse," - Annelies, Bumi Manusia, page 50.

22. "Blessed is he who eats from his own sweat, rejoices in his own efforts, and advances through his own experiences," - Nyai Ontosoroh, Bumi Manusia, page 59.

23. "You may excel in your studies, maybe achieve various academic degrees, but without loving literature, you are just a clever animal," - Magda Peters, Bumi Manusia, page 313.

24. "You are educated, Minke, an educated person must also learn to act justly, starting from the mind, let alone in actions. That is indeed the meaning of being educated," - Jean Marais, Bumi Manusia, page 77.

25. "Love is beautiful, Minke, too beautiful, which can be obtained in this short human life," - Jean Marais, Bumi Manusia, page 81.

26. "... pity only the feelings of good-willed people who are unable to act.Pity is only a luxury, or a weakness.The commendable person is indeed the one who is able to do good-willed acts," - Jean Marais, This Earth of Mankind 83.

27. "They defend what they consider their rights without fearing death.Everyone, even children!They may lose, but they still fight.Fight, Minke, with all your abilities and disabilities," - Jean Marais, This Earth of Mankind, page 87.

28. "Women only like to serve the present and fear aging; they are fascinated by the dream of fragile youth and want to cling to that dream forever.Age is truly unfair to women," - Minke, This Earth of Mankind, page 89.

29. "You cannot rule over workers because you cannot rule over yourself. You cannot rule over yourself because you do not know how to work," - Annelies, This Earth of Mankind, page 98.

30. "A reasonable person must have friends, selfless friendship.Without friends, life will be too lonely," - Nyai Ontosoroh, This Earth of Mankind, page 101.

31. "Life can give everything to anyone who knows how to accept," - Nyai Ontosoroh, This Earth of Mankind, page 105.

32. "You must be fair in your thoughts.Do not blindly judge matters that are not known to be true or false," - Minke, This Earth of Mankind, page 105.

33. "Consider me as an egg that has fallen from the nest.Broken.The egg is not at fault," - Nyai Ontosoroh, This Earth of Mankind, page 132.

34. "Even chickens, especially the mothers, will defend their offspring, even against eagles in the sky," - Nyai Ontosoroh, This Earth of Mankind, page 132.

35. "A wrinkled face and disheveled clothing also reflect a disheveled and untrustworthy company," - Nyai Ontosoroh, This Earth of Mankind, page 133.

36. "Stories, Nyi, are always about humans, their lives, not their deaths.Yes, even if what is portrayed is animals, giants, or gods or ghosts.And there is nothing more difficult to understand than the human being. That is why there is no end to the stories made on this earth," - Nyai Ontosoroh, This Earth, page 164.

37. "Surely you will write about the people you know nearby. The ones that interest you. The ones that evoke sympathy or antipathy," - Nyai Ontosoroh, This Earth, page 164.

38. "Do not underestimate human beings, who may appear simple; let your vision be as sharp as an eagle, your mind as sharp as a razor, your touch more sensitive than the gods, your hearing able to capture the music and cries of life; your knowledge of human beings will never be exhausted," - Nyai Ontosoroh, This Earth, page 165.

39. "Stories about pleasure are always uninteresting. They are not stories about human beings and their lives, but about paradise, and clearly it does not happen in our world," - Nyai Ontosoroh, This Earth, page 165.

40. "My world is not about positions, ranks, salaries, and deceit. My world is the earth of human beings with all its problems," - Minke, This Earth, page 186.

3. Friendship Quotes from the Novel

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The Harry Potter novel written by British author JK.Rowling has fans from all over the world. The story of teenage wizard Harry Potter and his friends from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in defeating evil wizards has produced many memorable quotes from this novel.

Harry Potter's struggle with his friends is not easy, so they try to strengthen each other through their dialogues. To find out, here are some quotes from the novel 'Harry Potter'.

41. "Fear of a name only increases fear of the thing itself." - Hermione Granger

42. "It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends." - Albus Dumbledore

43. "Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light." - Albus Dumbledore

44. "It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be." - Albus Dumbledore

45. "Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and above all, those who live without love." - Albus Dumbledore

46. "Do you think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? Do you think that we don't remember them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble?" - Albus Dumbledore

47. "We all have light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on." That's who we really are." - Sirius Black

48. "Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect." - Luna Lovegood

49. "Anything is possible if you have enough nerve." - Ginny Weasley

50. "To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure." - Albus Dumbledore

51. "Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving." - Kingsley Shacklebolt

52. "In dreams, we enter a world that's entirely our own." - Albus Dumbledore

53. "We're all going to keep fighting, Harry. You know that?" - Neville Longbottom

54. "I am not worried, Harry. I am with you." - Albus Dumbledore

55. "Time will not slow down when something unpleasant lies ahead." - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

56. "Parents shouldn't leave their kids unless - unless they have to." - Harry Potter

57. "Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies." - Lord Voldemort

58. "Killing is not as easy as the innocent believe." - Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

59. "What's coming will come, and we'll meet it when it does." - Rubeus Hagrid

60. "Do you know how tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realize that, one day, among their many victims, there is sure to be one who rises against them and strikes back!" - Albus Dumbledore

KLovers, those are quotes from famous novels that you can use as captions or messages for your friends. With that, your friendship will become sweeter in the future.

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