Frenemies Quotes Novels & Stories

My heart dropped, but I narrowed my eyes and masked my embarrassment away. My throat burned. Still, I raised my chin. “Allies can make us stronger,” I said, forcing the words out. “More land, more trade, more protection. Friends are worth more than enemies. We should be building good and strong relationships, not enemies that’d join heads with others against us.” A scoff came sharp from the other end of the table. “They must be tamed. They must know who is superior to all.” “Fear,” another said, drawing his attention to me, “is the only respect that lasts.”

Her love — a theatre, her soul — a stage, and I, the fool who thought it was friendship. Now I sip my tea with quiet grace, for I have learned — not all enemies wear frowns. Some wear my perfume, and borrow my smile. Such is the life of a fake friend. Beware!

he asked. “Hugging you? That's what friends do," I answered, more like a question. He broke the hug immediately I said that, with so much force. “Who said we're friends?" “Well, we aren't enemies, are we? And the opposite of enemies is friends. I just put two and two together and came up with that.” "Besides, we've been getting along really well lately, right?" I added. I don't even know what to call the expression on his face; it was just blank but mixed with confusion.

However, would opening up to this man be worth it? "Please... I want to be friends. Isn't it okay to be friends with a rival?" "Yes, that's a good idea, of course. You can understand your opponent's weaknesses because you've become his friend." Zac laughed. "Are you being sarcastic?" "Sounds like it, huh? But no. I'm not being sarcastic, but rather stating a fact that you should know in the business world. The question is, are you sure you want to be friends with ME, who is your enemy?"

"Can you at least tell me a little more about this plan of yours? Maybe I can help in some way." Fenrir shakes his head. "It's best if you stay out of this. Have you ever heard of the phrase the enemy of my enemy is my friend? What do you do when you have two enemies that you can't beat by yourself?" Cloven is taken back by his statement realizing what he plans on doing. "You can't be serious. You said it was risky, but I had no idea just how bad it really was." "Not to worry, neither side knows that we are against them. If things work out, they will never find out it was our plan to eliminate both of them from the start."

His cold eyes remained, yet his lips slowly curved into a devilish smirk. Let's see if you can still say those words at our next meeting, Vestian. "Whoever fights with monster should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster and if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you," Celestin stated a quote out of the blue. "Remember my favorite quote I used to tell you, father?" "What the heck are you talking about, you futile child?"

he says causing me to laugh humorlessly at him "Funny, I could say the same thing about you earlier" I say as I glare at him again "Keep your friends close but your enemies closer" he says looking at me "They're not my enemies" I say as I defend the cheer team and he gets off my car "I don't know how much I believe that" he says as he shakes his head disapprovingly and walks towards his car.

I laughed, but then I felt sorry for him. "Pft," I giggled. As heinous and cruel as it may sound, I enjoy inflicting pain on others. Because I was destined to do so. "He's insane," my fellow subordinates murmured behind me, but it didn't matter because they were correct. "There's a saying in the port mafia... that Python's enemies' greatest misfortune is that Python is their enemy."

"Fine, I will do whatever you want but you should keep to your word because you wouldn't like me." "Of course, I will, you are helping me, so it's only right that I help you also but you should be very careful." "I know by the way, what is your name? I want to see your face since we are friends now." "We are friends?" Shirley asked with a thick voice, Camille Kyle gave that wicked smirk. "Yes, an enemy to your enemy is your friend, so we should be friends but since you feel awkward calling yourself a friend to a murderer, let's just call it, enemy Zoom, just as we have friends Zoom."

I opened my mouth to respond, but Ezren beat me to it. “Wow, I guess you and Freya are also well-known rivals now, right?” Ezren said with a smirk. “The enemy of my enemy—well, that’s a friend.” He was mocking Kael over being sued by me, which stirred up Kael’s anger even more. I could see it in the way his jaw clenched, the way his eyes narrowed to slits. The mark on my neck pulsed with his rage, sending tendrils of pain down my spine.