The best day of the year, Galentine’s day, has arrived! The day before Valentine’s day is one dedicated to female friendships (curtesy of Parks and Recreation, a brief shout-out to one of the best tv-shows ever written!), and a chance for you to celebrate all the ladies in your life. Because romantic love might be good, but platonic love is amazing. So we thought we would take this opportunity to celebrate our favorite literary gals and their favorite gals, by compiling a list of some of our favorite female friendships. These girls all fiercely protect, love and cherish each other, and if they’ve taught us anything it’s that you can do anything with the right friends at your side. So … do you agree with our picks?
Gwen & Lesley, Ruby Red by Kerstin Grier
“Don’t forget, this is a matter of life and death,” said Lesley. “You think I want to lose my best friend just because she couldn’t think straight after a bit of snogging?”
Safi & Iseult, The Witchlands by Susan Dennard
“I hate this. Both the storm and the plan. Why does it have to be ‘we’? Why not just me?”
“Because ‘just me’ isn’t who we are,” Iseult hollered back. “I’ll always follow you, Safi, and you’ll always follow me. Threadsisters to the end.”
The Gallagher Girls, Gallagher Girls by Ally Carter
“What is a Gallagher Girl?” Liz asked one final time. “She’s a genius, a scientist, a heroine, a spy. And now we are at the end of our time at school, and the one thing I know for certain is this: A Gallagher Girl is whatever she wants to be.”
Thunderous, raucous applause filled the student section.
Liz smiled and wiped her eyes. She leaned close to the microphone.
“And, most of all, she is my sister.”
Celaena & Nehemia, Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
“But no matter what I did, Elentiya, I want you to know that in the darkness of the past ten years, you were one of the bright lights for me. Do not let that light go out.”
Emma & Cristina, The Dark Artifices by Cassandra Clare
“Cristina I love you,” Emma said. “I will marry you. Marry you.”
Cristina giggled. “My mother’s already picked out who I’m going to marry, remember? Imagine what she’d say if I brought you home.”
“You don’t think she’d like me more than Perfect Diego?”
“I think you would be able to hear her screaming from Idris.”
Cinder & Iko, The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer
Iko held up a hand. “You need a system debug if you’re suggesting that I would abandon you now.”
Claudia & Iris, Foolish Hearts by Emma Mills
“Good.” She looks away, fussing with her straw again.
“Don’t think that just because you said a bunch of nice stuff about me, I won’t poke you for making that sound,” I say when I can speak again.
“I would expect nothing less,” Iris replies.
Eelyn & Mýra, Sky in the Deep by Adrienne Young
She would have to lead with her left and her left wasn’t her strong side. But I’d done as much for her in the past. It’s what we did for each other. It’s how we survived. And being back on the front line with her was like going home. A home that could never be burned or broken.
Ava & Gen, I Hate Everyone But You by Gaby Dunn & Allison Raskin
“I am extraordinarily proud of you and can’t wait for the entire city of Boston to both love and fear you. Just remember that NO ONE will ever love (or fear) you like I do.”
Lily & Rose & Daisy, Addicted series by Krista & Becca Ritchie
We promise to always be there for one another, to support each other’s choices, to be the tides that wash away negativity and foes. However long we live, however hard life becomes, we’ll never lose sight of this sisterhood.
Mia & Lilly, The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot
The people who are your friends before you got the crown are the people who are going to be your best friends no matter what. Because they are the ones who love you for you-in all your geekiness- and not because of what they can get out of you. Weirdly, in some instances, even the people who were your enemies before you got famous can end up being better friends to you become friends with after you become famous. And even when those friends get mad at you, you still need them, even more than ever. Because they are the people who are willing to tell you the truth.
Lena & Carmen & Bridget & Tibby, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
“The word friends doesn’t seem to stretch big enough to describe how we feel about each other. We forget where one of us starts and the other one stops.”
Amani & Shazad, Rebel of the Sands by Alwyn Hamilton
I thought of Shazad. My sister in arms. We had recognised something in each other the first time we met and we were tied. By more than blood.
Nina & Inej, Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
Jesper expected Inej to laugh and was startled when she took Nina’s face between her hands and said, “Thank you for keeping me in this world when fate seemed determined to drag me to the next. I owe you a life debt.” Nina blushed deeply. “I was teasing, Inej.” She paused. “I think we’ve both had enough of debts.”
“This is one I’m glad to bear.”
“Okay, okay. When we’re back in Ketterdam, take me out for waffles.”
Rose & Lissa, Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead
“If you try to turn me against Lissa one more time the stories are going to be about you bleeding because I’ll have ripped your throat out!”
How did we do? Did we miss your favorites? Let us know and we might include them next year!
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