Rise After Fall (Balsam Ridge, #6)

by Amber Kelly

I don’t think we put enough emphasis on friendships. Your friends aren’t bound to you by blood. They sign no contract. There is no courtship, proposal, or ceremony. You don’t exchange vows, and yet you’re there for each other for better or for worse, in sickness and in health. Through births and deaths until your own death causes you to part. You laugh together and make each other laugh. You cry together without judgment or shame. You hold each other up when one of you hasn’t got the strength to stand. You hit your knees and pray for each other. No, not because you’re bound by blood, but because you’re bound by love.