Quotes About Comfort

he lay on a chaise longue under the cedar tree with lemonade constantly at his elbow. In those

she instructs Rose to put the mousse over some hot water, to keep it warm for her own 'luncheon'. It's

fried eggs and buttered toast and

I saved your place, Rosa," he whispered, his arms coming around me and lifting me so I was not carrying all my burdens alone. "We've just been waiting for you to come back to us.

I like to say, jazz music is kind of like my musical equivalent of comfort food. You know, it's always where I go back to when I just want to feel sort of grounded.

If one's mother cries, there is nothing stable left in the world.

Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.

All this I told Juniper, and she listened in the quiet, dispassionate way she had when you told her something truly terrible. It was as if she was joining things together in her mind, making some act of love and healing where otherwise all was violence and despair.

She was right about one thing - I did need a caring, responsible adult around. If I could have cried on the shoulder of someone I trusted, I never would have stopped. Where were all the adults?

I'd been right, even when I was in fourth grade and saw Sarah Keeler lying in her coffin: When you're dead, no one can hurt you. (228)

I think for me, food was a way for me to deal with emotional trouble.

You'd have thought Louise was the snow itself, falling all around me, muffling the cold and the wind even as she was the source of it.

Lovers who have lived a lifetime together have the luxury of never having to say anything new.

It's not salvation that I have to offer - but something more like hot soup.

I had a friend whose family had dinner together every day. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. It just seemed so amazing to me.

Books are like friends you can never put them down no matter how much you hate it...

Just that working with Clint again is like coming home.

Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up.

If you would have peace, genuine peace, you must accept all the aspects of your personality and learn to be comfortable with them.

Oh, you have a kitchen! I'm gonna like this place very much.

My friend Zelda once said that tears are how we give love a wash, so it doesn't go mouldy.

My friend Zelda once said that tears are how we give love a wash, so it doesn't go mouldy.

Bitter is wine, but it sweetens all bitterness.

So I did what every girl does when she's far from home and a little sad. I ate half a packet of chocolate Digestives and called my mother. 'Lou! Is that you? Hold on, I'm in the middle