Book Quote by Annie Barrows Download Open image “We clung to books and to our friends; they reminded us that we had another part to us.” — Annie Barrows ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Books Friends Clung Books Friends Friends Reminded Friendship Reminded Writer
Books gave us a way to shape ourselves - to form our thoughts and to signal to each other who we were and who… — Rebecca Mead Copy Share Image
Growing up, books were my best friends, just because I didn't really have a lot of peers as deaf kids. So I read, and… — Lauren Ridloff Copy Share Image
We live and breathe words. It was books that kept me from taking my own life after I thought I could never love anyone,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“To friends and books, and friends in books, may our stories be long and our friendships longer.” — Molly MacRae Copy Share Image
We read books, talked books, argued over books and became dearer and dearer to one another. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Books opened up a whole new world to me. Through them I discovered new ideas, traveled to new places, and met new people. Books… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
“ 'Books had always been my best friends and all I wanted to do was lose myself in them, and better yet if the… — Fae Sutherland Copy Share Image
I was always fond of books right since my childhood days. Even as a teenager, books were my company. Not that I did not… — Asin Copy Share Image
“The books we read help to shape who we are. Reading offers us, as children, our first independence- allowing us to travel far beyond… — Ben Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Books had been invented to salve human loneliness, and they were friends without peer, friends who never sneered or flinched or laughed behind a… — Mary Jo Putney Copy Share Image
Books were like old friends, with their worn covers and well-thumbed pages.. — Naomi Ragen Copy Share Image
I understood we used to be close. But they were like books i'd read two summer ago; I knew I'd liked them, but I… — Sara Shepard Copy Share Image
I am a grown woman-- mostly-- and I can guzzle champagne with whomever I choose. — Annie Barrows Copy Share Image
Then he felt remorseful, which was so unlike him and endearing that I almost changed my mind and said yes. But then I imagined… — Annie Barrows Copy Share Image
If I could have anything I wanted, I would choose story without end, and it seems I have lots of company in that. — Annie Barrows Copy Share Image
“The wonderful thing about books--and the thing that made them such a refuge for the islanders during the Occupation--is that they take us out… — Annie Barrows Copy Share Image
It suddenly struck me that Dawsey is a lonesome person. I think it may be that he has always been lonely, but he didn't… — Annie Barrows Copy Share Image
“There had been a problem in Bean's house. The problem was staples. Bean loved staples. She loved them so much that she had stapled… — Annie Barrows Copy Share Image
“Mary Ann could no more endure a day without reading than she could grow feathers.” — Annie Barrows Copy Share Image
“We could have gone on longing for one another and pretending not to notice forever. This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if… — Annie Barrows Copy Share Image
“[I] threw open the door to find Rob sitting on the low stool in front of my bookcase, surrounded by cardboard boxes. He was… — Annie Barrows Copy Share Image
“When grown-ups asked you to sit in a circle, they were usually about to tell you something you didn't want to hear. Ms. Aruba-Tate,… — Annie Barrows Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image