Emilia Fox Quotes

I turn to books for a feeling of companionship: for somebody knowing what I have known.

For whoever is lonely there is a tavern.

Many of my old friends are gone now. I have a hard time dealing with the fact that they're just not there to talk to. I can't call them up for a rabbit-skin glue recipe anymore.

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.

Yes, but don't forget I also have the luxury of the worlds finest band when it gets lonely.

People are lonely. They want company and your book can provide them company and a little bit of hope. And there's nothing wrong with that.

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

That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.

I know that attaching memories to books may be going out of the world, but while it lasts, it's a strong record of your life.

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

Indeed, every book on my shelves is a key to a little vault of memories.

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

From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood.

He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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?

The companionship of dead writers is a wonderful form of live friendship.

You can make a new friend but you can't make an old one.

I remember, as a child, the confusion of not knowing what this place was where I was supposed to spend the night: it's a disquieting experience for a child. And what I would do was quickly unpack my books and go back to a book I knew well and make sure the same text and the same illustrations were there.

Sometimes, walking with a friend, I forget the world.