Friendship book and author quotes

Top ten quotes on friendship, encouragement and comfort

I love to celebrate my friends and family with sweet sayings from novels and authors of the past and present.  Writing meaningful quotes inside birthday cards, a text or even an email.  Any occasion that will lift the spirits of our loved ones with terms of novel quote endearments.  Give the gift of one of these sayings below that will put a smile on the face of those you treasure in your life and at the same time show how much the joy of reading can be.

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There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature ~ Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey

I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam. ~ J.R.R. Tolkien - Return of the King

Courage, dear heart ~ C.S. Lewis - The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Just think happy thoughts and you will fly ~ J.M. Barrie - Peter Pan

You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel ~ Alexander McCall Smith - The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

You're braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think ~ Christopher Robin - Winnie the Pooh

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected ~ Charles Lamb - The Life, Letters and Writings of Charles Lamb Volume 3

Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world ~ L.M. Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables

True friends are always together in spirit ~ L.M. Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables

Friendship is born at the moment when one man says to another ‘What! You too? I thought that no one but myself' ~ C.S. Lewis - The Four Loves

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