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Table of Contents

• Books as Loyal and Constant Friends
• Books as Companions and Comfort
• Books as Sources of Wisdom and Knowledge
• Books as Alternatives to Human Interaction
• Books as Special and Treasured Objects
• Books and Social Connections
• The Relationship Between Books and Friends
• Books as Guides and Teachers
• Books as Personal Identity and Reflection
• Other

Books as Loyal and Constant Friends

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.

He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.

With books, you’re never lonely. Your friends are the best minds who have ever lived.

Let your books be your best friends.

Books are the most wonderful friends in the world. When you meet them and pick them up, they are always ready to give you a few ideas. When you put them down, they never get mad; when you take them up again, they seem to enrich you all the more.

Books are the most loyal friends - they will never stab you in the back.

Books make such good friends and quiet neighbors.

Books keep and reciprocate our secrets, dreams, regrets, and hopes better than any friend in the world.

Books are companions; choose your companions wisely.

The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul--BOOKS.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.

Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don't talk back.

Books as Companions and Comfort

A book is a friend that will do what no friend does - be silent when we wish to think.

Treasure your books as your best friends.

Who wants to be used? I love to read, so books are my main friends. They're always available, always friendly, and always interesting, and they never make me choose sides.

A book is a dear friend who has a thousand things to say.

Books are magical in that they can transport you to another time and place, introduce you to people you come to know as friends, in both characters, authors and now in real people who, at some point in their lives, have chosen each book as carefully selected gifts for someone they cared about.

Who says books aren't 'real' friends? We hug them, treasure them, relate to them, spend weekends with them, and bring them along on vacation! They give us escape, comfort, adventures, advice, hope, inspiration, role models, and something to look forward to after a hard day. What more could you ask for from a friend?

We need books...because we are all, in the private kingdoms of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend.

What are books? They become our best friends, they enrich our lives, they allow us to escape, if only for a time, into another world, whatever the genre...

These books are my friends, my companions.

Who says books aren’t ‘real’ friends? We hug them, treasure them, relate to them, spend weekends with them, and bring them along on vacation! They give us escape, comfort, adventures, advice, hope, inspiration, role models, and something to look forward to after a hard day. What more could you ask for from a friend?

Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you secruity and friendship and didn’t ask for anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly.

Books are my friends, where it’s okay to be silent, where you’re not a freak if you don’t want to get drunk, peel out in the parking lot, tip cows.

Books as Sources of Wisdom and Knowledge

If books are your good friends, then a conscious life will be your best comrade all your life!

Books are like friends to me. Words come alive on the page.

Books have always been among my most trusted of friends, Mr. Linden replied. The best of them allow the mind to wander wherever the author's musings lead.

Books make the best ersatz friendships.

Books are like people: fascinating, inspiring, thought-provoking, some laugh, some meditate, others ache with old age, but still have wisdom: some are disease-ridden, some deceitful; but others are a delight to behold, and many travel to foreign lands; some cry, some teach, others are lots of fun, they are excellent companions and all have individuality - Books are friends. What person has too many friends?

Books keep and reciprocate our secrets, dreams, regrets, and hopes better than any friend in the world.

Books are a real solace, friendships are good but action is better than all.

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

Good books are as friends, willing to give to us if we are willing to make a little effort.

Books are ever available friends, ready to serve you at will.

Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don't talk back.

Books as Alternatives to Human Interaction

Bookworms love to say, there is no friend as loyal as a book. I say, if your knowledge of all those books doesn’t come to any use of the people around you, then there’s no creature as selfish as you.

I enjoy sharing my books as I do my friends, asking only that you treat them well and see them safely home.

If a book did nothing else for you, other than to save you from the company of other people; if all it did was to deliver you from their gossip, and their dull affairs, and their appalling manners, and their rotten Arabic, and their stupid ideas, and their woefully misguided opinions, and above all, from the need to be polite to them; if a book did nothing more than that, it would still be the best friend you ever had.

I found it hard to think of leaving my books. They had been my elevators out of the midden, and to whom could I entrust such close friends?

If your best friends do not read books, they read you.

I really have lived in books. Books are friends. They are some of the friends that make you who you are.

Nana always said that books made better friends than people anyway. Books will take you anywhere if you let them, she used to say, and I think she was right.

You should be out stirring up trouble with your friends, not bothering with all them books you read. You know it’s them books what make you talk funny.

Who wants to be used? I love to read, so books are my main friends. They’re always available, always friendly, and always interesting, and they never make me choose sides.

Books are much better companions to me than people.

Can we really be friends with those who don’t love the books that we do? Of course we can, but can we really be friends with those who don’t love any books? I’m not so sure of that.

How can you have a book for a friend?” Abby asked. “You can’t talk to them.” “No, but they can take you away to another place. With books, the world feels safe.

Books as Special and Treasured Objects

Books are a treasured friend, however it’s difficult to explain it to a non-reader.

If your friend wishes to read your 'Plutarch's Lives,' 'Shakespeare,' or 'The Federalist Papers,' tell him gently but firmly, to buy a copy. You will lend him your car or your coat - but your books are as much a part of you as your head or your heart.

When it comes to books and friends, it is best to have only a few but all good ones.

I truly believe that if you have more friends than books, you have too many friends. Or not enough books. Probably both.

The Books are our best friends that provide us right path in deep darkness.

I read stuff. Books are not my only friends, but we’re friendly. So there.

My father always says, ‘Never trust anyone who has a TV bigger than their bookshelf.’ So I make sure I read. Back at home, I just put up a massive bookcase and asked everyone I know and love to help me fill it with their favorite books. It’s been quite nice because I’ve learned a lot about my friends and family from what they’ve been giving me. A book says a lot about a person.

The people who are always monkeying with these great books to make them fully (comprehensible) have no friend in me, for in their realm the fully comprehensible is not worth comprehending

This is just a small-town Americana family event. People really relate to books. Books are like friends, and there is no limit to the amount of friends you have.

Friends: people who borrow my books and set wet glasses on them.

Books are friends. You don’t just – just – just give away friends!

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I’m so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don’t have the guts to take their names out of the book.

Books and Social Connections

Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world.

And every book, you find, has its own social group--friends of its own it wants to introduce you to, like a party in the library that need never, ever end.

What are a friend's books for if not to be borrowed?

Books and people happen to you. And when they do, let them.

My chest of books divide amongst my friends--

We've been together through good times and bad. If we didn't have book group, we would miss it.

Books + friendship = book club

We read books, talked books, argued over books and became dearer and dearer to one another.

Once two members had read the same book, they could argue, which was our great delight. We read books, talked books, argued over books, and became dearer and dearer to one another.

There are some friends you don’t meet for twenty years and when you meet them again it’s as if no twenty years has happened – you’re lucky when that happens. I feel the same about books.

What are a friend’s books for if not to be borrowed?

The Relationship Between Books and Friends

My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.

One cannot celebrate books sufficiently. After saying his best, still something better remains to be spoken in their praise. As with friends, one finds new beauties at every interview, and would stay long in the presence of those choice companions. As with friends, he may dispense with a wide acquaintance. Few and choice. The richest minds need not large libraries.

We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have to do our level best to keep up with them.

Choose thy friends like thy books, few but choice.

One Best Book is Equal To Hundred Good Friends But One Good Friend is Equal To A Library.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

In the end all books are written for your friends.

Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.

My best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read’.

My chest of books divide amongst my friends –.

If your reading life and your friendships overlap, that’s just a nice coincidence – a case where the conversation you’re having with books and the conversation you’re having with actual human beings happen to dovetail.

If your friend wishes to read your ‘Plutarch’s Lives,’ ‘Shakespeare,’ or ‘The Federalist Papers,’ tell him gently but firmly, to buy a copy. You will lend him your car or your coat – but your books are as much a part of you as your head or your heart.

Books as Guides and Teachers

My books are friends that never fail me."(Letter to his mother, Margaret A. Carlyle; 17 March 1817)

Archie says books are our best lovers and our most provoking friends.

I don’t want the books [...] to be too far away; they, also, have become friends. I even feel this way about books I don’t own. In libraries, I find myself visiting the books I used before. I regard those rows of memoirs and letters as voices from the past, bound into books, and I like to make sure they are all there, alive and well. If they have collected dust, I take out the small towel I carry in my briefcase and wipe them off.-from 2012 NYT Book Review Essay

Books are the most tolerant of friends.

One of the curious aspects of my invisible friend was they would assist me in writing books.

Book is the best friend, have no demand, no complain

Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us. Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world.

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book.

Books are like people. Some look deceptively attractive from a distance, some deceptively unappealing; some are easy company, some demand hard work that isn’t guaranteed to pay off. Some become friends and say friends for life. Some change in our absence - or perhaps it is we who change in theirs - and we meet up again only to find that we don’t get along any more.

Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular-letter to the friends of him who writes it.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.

You will learn more from your friends than you ever will from books. Choose your friends wisely.

Books as Personal Identity and Reflection

Choose thy friends like thy books, few but choice

Oscar always said that books are truly our best friends. He said that they never think poorly of us and that they always have a shoulder for us to cry on or relieve stress. They take our minds away from the real world by telling us captivating stories. When we look back at our choice of books, we can nostalgically recall our younger years.

Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesn’t return it you get mad at him. It makes you mean and petty. But twenty-five cent books are different.

Sometimes I think books are the only friends worth having.

How do you explain to a nonreader that books aren't just things but treasured friends? Companions?

We are great if we have courage and friendship, but not if we only read books.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.

Some of my best friends are books.

My books are friends that never fail me.

I'm aware that many of my friends will be saddened and shocked, or shock-saddened, over some of the chapters in 'The Catcher In the Rye.' Some of my best friends are children. In fact, all my best friends are children. It's almost unbearable for me to realize that my book will be kept on a shelf out of their reach.

Only your friends steal your books.

And every book, you find, has its own social group – friends of its own it wants to introduce you to, like a party in the library that need never, ever end.

Other

We can’t be everything for our book. Sometimes, we must surrender it to people who can help.It’s all about the book. It’s not a reflection of your competence.But, please ask from the right people. Hire the right people. Approach experts. Friends are great for moral support, but when you need expertise and advise, then ask the experts. Otherwise, you’d be a blind man being guided by another blind man telling you which way to go. A practice that is too common in this industry.

It should be said upfront that I totally dig people who work in bookstores and libraries. They love books, and I love books, and that is all I really need to know. If they are friendly to me, then we are clearly soul mates.

My best friends are books, I can easily read them and take them wherever I go.

Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.

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