Quotes About Comfort

Sweetened ice tea is one of the things I love about the South, right up there with homemade biscuits and cheese grits.

I'm not really shy. I'm an introvert." I went on to explain the difference—the fact that being around people didn't make me uneasy, I just preferred to be alone most of the time.

Her voice is as warm and soothing as the carbohydrates they will share.

It's the feeling of belonging. Right here where I am. In this house. With my parents and Charlotte. The people who know all my stories, from the beginning. The people who know me.

Conversation felt healing, and we all needed that.

thinking that's the thing about Andy—I'm always at least okay when I'm with him.

It's better to be happy than comfortable, if you can't have both.

I don't like a clever toilet looking at our butts.

Miss N. had taught her nurses to watch carefully in order to understand what the ill required and provide it. Not medicine—that was the doctors' domain—but the things she argued were equally crucial to recovery: light, air, warmth, cleanliness, rest, comfort, nourishment, and conversation.

None of this dirt is yours, I told her. You're as clean as rain. She kissed me, but on the forehead this time.

Shooting Willoughby carrying Marianne up the path. ... Male strength -- the desire to be cradled again? ... I'd love someone to pick me up and carry me off. Frightening. Lindsay assures me I'd start to fidget after a while. She's such a comfort.

There, there, baby!' said Julian, patting his little sister on the back and laughing at her furious face.

I just want a sunny, lazy, windy time with the people I like best.

It's all right,' said Julian, putting his arm round Anne.

herself down on the sand. It was very soft

Tim didn't seem to like the storm either. He sat close by George, his ears cocked, and growled whenever the thunder rumbled. The children fed him with titbits and he ate them eagerly, for he was hungry too.

Artemis stepped into his mother's embrace. It was warm and strong. She was wearing perfume. He felt like the boy he was.

Butler cleaned his gun as he spoke. He often did this in times of stress. It was a comfort thing.

Ik herinner me hem wel, Holly. Ik herinner het me allemaal. Vooral jou. Het is een hele troost dat jij hier bij me bent.' … 'Dat is heel lief van je, Artemis,' zei ze na even te hebben nagedacht. 'Maar je hoeft voor mij niet te doen alsof.

And the motive for all this subterfuge? Simple. Something his Nano had told him a long time ago. "People buy comfort," she had said, slitting a pig's throat with a corn sickle. "If you make them comfortable, then they will buy whatever you are selling." The combination of wisdom and arterial blood spray was irresistible and Hillman never forgot his grandmother's lesson.

Wowbagger felt Trillian squeeze his arm and his anxiety drained away. He looked at her. How was that possible? How did you do that?

Desire to become pure, and, once pure, you will be at ease with yourself, and comfortable in the company of God.

One of the great comforts of our present home, on the other hand, was that we hadn't chosen it. Inevitability is surely part of the sense of home, the irreplaceable something for which the heart yearns.

His rod, his staff, it comforted me.