Quotes About Comfort

It was perfectly silent, and perfectly safe, and perfectly warm. And perfectly alone.

The little cultural differences could seem absolutely homey, compared to the big ones.

It was a relief to speak his native tongue, familiar words and known patterns that had settled into his bones with father's milk and rooted deep.

Her hand on his arm was like a mooring rope, a promise of harbor.

I will come back as a little breeze. You will feel me on your face, and you will know that I am still listening. So you can still talk to me.

books are like confort food without the calories

Should we have stayed at home,wherever that may be?

Sometimes there is naught you can do for a man, save stand quietly beside him and believe. (Advice to Felicity Langley from her Nanny Rana)

Friends are the balm that soothes the heart. – Nanny Tasha (former nanny to Felicity and Tally Langley)

Everything is all right, When you're here, When you're right next to me, When my hand is in yours, Don't leave me, Don't leave me empty handed.

afternoon and the furniture is all assembled.

You fit well into the hollow of my shoulder

I'm sorry that you're still hurting.

Its just the anniversary, she wanted to tell him. Its just this time of the year stirring up these memories. Everything will be all right. But she couldn't say that, because she wasn't sure it was true.

I leaned back against him and rested my cheek on his shoulder. I could feel the river water dripping off of him. "Thank you" I whispered. When I looked up, I saw he was crying.

Don't call me Naomi, which means pleasant. But call me Miriam, which means bitterness. I will weep, and I will not be comforted, for the Lord God hath dealt bitterly with me." She would light a candle to Mary, Esther decided.

I throw my arms around her without even thinking first, the way I used to with Daddy when he came home from a trip. "Thank you," I say into her waist. Her clothes smell so good. I feel her hand resting on my head, and for that second I feel like nothing could ever go wrong. Not when there's Miss Mary to hug.

She snatched at the dream that had comforted her for so long. It was faded and thin, like a letter too often read.

Hannah's magic cure for every ill," he teased. "Blueberry cake and a kitten.

I'm here. I love you. I don't care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you. There's nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.

These warm lovers of life, born under dancing stars, how without them was life tolerable for those, such as himself, whose bias was towards sadness, their stars cloud-hidden when their spirits woke to life....In this world, surely, there should always be a mating between the lovers of life and the endurers of it, in couples they should find a causeway for their feet and walk it together, the star-shine of the one comforting the darkness of the other.

Fear is a lonely thing. Even those who love us best cannot get close to us when we are afraid.

I don't fly to the classics for comfort, as Giles does. I'm too frivolous. Worthy people always read the classics when things are difficult.

Her pain came from inside herself, from her resentment of the contrariness and frustration of life, while his came most often from outside himself, growing inevitably from his compassion. It was a simplification of the difference between them to say that to the selfish comfort comes from the external things, while to the selfless consolation comes interiorly, but that was the way Daphne put it to herself.