Quotes About Comfort

Wine is sort of thrilling and sensual, and bread is familiar and essential.

talking about characters in books is exciting and soothing to me at the same time.

He seems smaller, his hug without much muscle.

Det är så mycket lättare att gråta när man känner någons armar runt sig [Karaktärens ord]

Oh sweetie.' He hugs me hard. 'It's okay. It's gonna be okay.' It's so much easier to cry when there are arms around you.

Was she wine or bread to you?' 'What do you mean?' 'It's from an Amy Lowell poem we all loved in college. Wine is sort of thrilling and sensual, and bread is familiar and essential.

I see no reason why we should fill our every waking hour with brooding over the evils of the day. At least you will admit it is fun to lean back in a comfortable chair on a cold rainy evening, [...] and escape into the pages of an extravagant romance, if only for an hour or two.

I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie. Neckties strangle clear thinking.

Much as I like reasonable persons, I hate completely rational beings. For that reason, I am always scared and ill at ease when I enter a house in which there are no ash trays.

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

Alison's hand reached for hers. "I'll support any decision you make, sis, but are you sure you really want to be alone?

We sat in his library. amidst his beloved books, whose company I knew he would rather seek than that of most of his acquaintances, did they but know it.

Isn't it comforting to know that God knew each of us before He created us? He planned what each of us would look like, who our parents would be, if and who we would marry, and how many children we would have. Before we could know God, He cared for us. He hid each of us away as a treasure until He brought us to be. God says that He fashioned each of us with awe and wonder.

You should never feel guilty for calling out to God when things go wrong.

When you understand that God is with you, that changes everything.

What we have to understand is that Jesus is not offering to make our problems disappear; he's offering to give us rest for our souls while he does the heavy lifting.

I am safe. For one night at least. Safe, moored to this man.

In the physical world we know, nothing lasts forever – a thought I find strangely comforting.

Em's the first woman I've met who seems to be...well, the answer.' 'Answer to what?' He shrugged. 'All the questions, I suppose.' Fay looked blank. 'The questions you ask yourself at 4:00am... All the questions you'll ever ask yourself at 4:00am

The relationship with my library on a Kindle feels more intimate, like a shelled animal carrying its home on its back.

It is warmth and comfort and safety. A smell of mothers.

Without a word, Carolyn held him...for a long, long time. Then, presently, she stood up, took hold of his hand and led him back to her bed, where she proceeded to put him back together again, piece by piece.

Lincoln's heartbeat picked up a little, the way it always did when he rounded that last bend in the road and saw home waiting up ahead. Home.

He wished he knew how to make tea, wished he even had some to try with. That was what Miss June-bug wanted when she was feeling low, a good cup of tea, and it always seemed to brace her right up.