Best Friends

So Sonia was not my only or even my first best friend. She was the last. It wasn’t that I hadn’t made friends since, it’s just that I thought myself past the age of that particular kind of friendship. Adult friendship doesn’t grant you an exclusive. It isn’t meant to be ranked above romance and family. I couldn’t imagine ever living that moment again when you say with a shy and hopeful pride “You’re my best friend”. The other person says it back and there you have chosen each other out of everyone else in the world.
— Leah Stewart, The Myth of You and Me: A Novel