We're Friends

“you know we’re friends”
- often used by one party to reiterate friendship or relationship when seeking trust / benefits from the other parties.
- actually means, I need to keep telling you this because I’m not really your friend. I’ll get close to you and will betray you at every opportunity I feel necessary. Hence, the famous quote we always hear, “ A close friend of the actress was quoted as saying…” Honestly, real friends do not need to reiterate their friendship and when confronted would rather go to the extent of saying, “I don’t know.”