The world is a big place, and it feels even bigger when your best friend lives far away from you. When you first enter into a long distance friendship, it can feel like your life support is being taken away — and you have to relearn to keep breathing on your own. You miss your pal, your crutch, the Celeste to your Madeline, your Bachelor in Paradise watch partner… you get the point. Maybe you and your bestie are headed off to different colleges, maybe one of you got a new job, or maybe life has just taken you to separate parts of the country — or the world.
Whatever happens, you’ll get through it. The most important friendships are built to last, especially if you stay in contact with cards, phone calls, and occasional trips to see each other if you can swing it. In the meantime, you can find inspiration in these heartfelt quotes about long distance besties, how they make it work, and how it brings them together. Maybe you can send these to your bestie when they’re on your mind. Or you can riff off of one and come up with your own quote-worthy messages — after all , the sweetest sentiments are usually originals.
The classic pooh quote
“If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart. I’ll stay there forever.” – A.A. Milne
The one from Gilmore Girls
If you’re out on the road, feeling lonely and so cold, all you have to do is call my name, and I’ll be there on the next train. — Carole King
The cheesy quote that will make you cry
Can miles truly separate you from friends… If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there? – author Richard Bach
The literary quote
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes. – Henry David Thoreau
The misattributed quote
Absence makes the heart grow fonder. — author Thomas Haynes Bayley
(He popularized this saying in his 1850 work Isle of Beauty, though it’s possible people were saying it before then. Eleanor Roosevelt is often credited with the quote. )
The quote for when life feels like a soap opera
The ties that bind us are sometimes impossible to explain. They connect us even after it seems like the ties should be broken. Some bonds defy distance and time and logic; Because some ties are simply meant to be. – Meredith Grey
The quote from the ’90s
As we go on, we remember all the times we had together. And as our lives change, come whatever, we will still be friends forever. – Vitamin C
The uplifting quote
We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere. – Tim McGraw
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