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Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend.

I'm always depressed when a book ends, because those are my friends for however long the book takes to write. Since I spend so many hours with these fictional people, I sometimes see them more than my real friends. And then they're gone, and we'll never be together like that again.

I'll read a book every now and then, but unlike most of my friends I don't always have one on the go.

If you have a book, you have a friend.

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

The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.

I always feel sad when I come to the end of a book.

I do reread, kind of obsessively, partly for the surprise of how the same book reads at a different point in life, and partly to have the sense of returning to an old friend.

A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.

I never feel lonely if I've got a book - they're like old friends. Even if you're not reading them over and over again, you know they are there. And they're part of your history. They sort of tell a story about your journey through life.