Two linked coral and mint rings on a peach saucer beside a folded pink cloth.

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Carrie

That’s the thing about friends, they will always hold your hair back when you’re sick.

— Sex and the City  ·  1998

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker defines friendship through a small, unglamorous act of care: holding someone's hair back when they are sick. The practical example gives loyalty a physical form. Its warmth comes from treating help at an uncomfortable moment as something friends can be counted on to offer.

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