Betty Smith Quotes

I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company.

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

Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people-- people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.

I write because I want to end my loneliness. Books make people less alone. That, before and after everything else, is what books do. They show us that conversations are possible across distances.

Reading a good book helps us to feel un-alone.

He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends

…books are always good company if you have the right sort. Let me pick out some for you.' And Mrs. Jo made a bee-line to the well-laden shelves, which were the joy of her heart and the comfort of her life.

Books—they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions.

If you have a book, you have a friend.

For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone. Perhaps if I was depressed and isolated, just communicating with these authors through their sentences helped me.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person.

Ordinary people don't know how much books can mean to someone who's cooped up.

He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.

My mother taught me how to read very early on and at school I was ahead of everyone in class... Reading was always something that I liked because I could do it alone and I was alone a lot of the time with my mother working the hours she did. Books became my friends very early on.

We never tire of the friendships we form with books.

you can not fully read a book without being alone. But through this very solitude you become intimately involved with people whom you might never have met otherwise, either because they have been dead for centuries or because they spoke languages you cannot understand. And, nonetheless, they have become your closest friends, your wisest advisors, the wizards that hypnotize you, the lovers you have always dreamed of. -Antonio munoz molinas, "the power of the pen

No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.

Books are solitudes in which we meet.

Books afford the surest relief in the most melancholy moments.

The world was a terrible place, cruel, pitiless, dark as a bad dream. Not a good place to live. Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness - and love. Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you security and friendship and didn't ask anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly.

No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.

A book, unlike any other friend, will wait, not only upon the hour but upon the mood.

If books are not good company, where shall I find it?

I had very low self-esteem. Books saved me. I found friends in stories like The Chronicles of Narnia and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. During lunch hour at school I'd avoid social interactions by sitting on the bathroom sink and reading. My mother worked in my school cafeteria. When my anxiety got really bad, I'd put a coat on, grab my book and a flashlight, and hide in the freezer with the mac and cheese.