We Should Not Be Friends Quotes

“For me, the phone remains miraculous in a way that electronic communication just isn’t. A phone brings the voice of a friend. It’s live. Email is a movie—once you get it, nothing you do will change it. A call is theater—surprising and unpredictable. What’s more, your presence is essential.”
― Will Schwalbe, We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of a Friendship

“had my hair permed down the center but cut shorter on the sides, in a recent fit of enthusiasm for the artist who was still then known as Prince and also for the look of a singer named Adam Ant. Despite my stylist’s valiant efforts, my hair looked nothing like theirs. But I did look like someone trying very hard not to look like everyone else; I was elaborately disguised as someone who didn’t care what other people thought of me.”
― Will Schwalbe, We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of a Friendship

“We were told that the most important thing was to listen, really listen, and to keep an open mind and heart. We weren’t to ask any questions until and unless we were invited to do so. We were told to be thoughtful about our questions—that they had to be genuine. It was fine to ask for more information or clarification if we were curious or didn’t understand what we’d heard. But questions were never to be used as challenges or veiled criticisms. We were warned particularly about “Why” questions. It’s hard to ask about motivation without implying that you would have handled the same situation differently. Far better to ask “How” and “What” questions (as long as the “What” was never a sarcastic “What were you thinking?”). Also, we weren’t to follow a person’s audit with statements of our own values, share our own stories in the guise of questions, or use queries to show how smart we were.”
― Will Schwalbe, We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of a Friendship

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― Will Schwalbe, We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of a Friendship

“It was like before I was in a noisy church in a big city. Now it’s like I’m in a beautiful monastery that no human has visited for a thousand years.”
― Will Schwalbe, We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of a Friendship

“best”
― Will Schwalbe, We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of a Friendship

“I wanted to stop caring quite so much what everyone thought about me and instead just be satisfied when I was doing the right thing.”
― Will Schwalbe, We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of a Friendship

“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.”
― Will Schwalbe, We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of a Friendship

“don’t”
― Will Schwalbe, We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of a Friendship

“while.”
― Will Schwalbe, We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of a Friendship

“and”
― Will Schwalbe, We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of a Friendship

“it felt like I was headed right back to where I started—that once again I could lose everything I had, and that maybe I didn’t deserve any of it. Maybe I had done something wrong.”
― Will Schwalbe, We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of a Friendship