Quotes About Comfort

She held me. I held her. We were one. (230)

I have dreamed of our bed as if it were a shore where we would be washed up, not this striped mattress we must cover with sheets. [from "After an Absence"]

Bed is like the womb, only drier and with better TV reception.

May our sanctuary give us sustenance and nurture us.

May our sanctuary offer us the strength we need during harsh times.

And may our sanctuary always give us peace.

Wherever I fly from my own dear nest, I always come back, for home is the best.

For the longest time I was so sick I didn't have the strength or inclination to read, but looking at my books stacked up on the bedside table was comforting, like having old friends sitting in the room with me, friends who didn't require anything of me, friends who brought me great pleasure just with their presence, waiting until I could engage with them again.... bibliophiles know the inanimate pleasure of the friendship with books.

I sensed it was finally safe to ask the question without seeming like an ingrate. God? Where were you? For 107 days where were you? Where were you in my unconsciousness and where were you in that hospital room when I wanted to feel your presence with fireworks and explosions of emotions and supernatural palpability? Where were you, God? [...] I was there, my child, [...] I was the peace, I was the breath, I was the comfort.

I don't think I'm cut out for a job where you have to look professionally tidy. I prefer working in my pajamas and taking showers after lunch.

Children are a great comfort in your old age — and they help you reach it faster, too.

I'm easy like Sunday morning.

Someone intruding within 18 inches without consent is regarded as threatening or uncomfortable behavior.

Built like an oak tree, against which I could pitch my pillow and read; mornings, I could curl into the crook of your branches.

You restored me to the concept of home.

Though it may be more romantic to picture the bereaved as gaunt, I imagine you can grieve as efficiently with chocolates as with tap water.

Thus even tragedy can be accompanied by a trace of relief. The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity.

Complacency has a way of restoring itself of its own accord

No tenemos mucho en común, pero, en general, disfruto con su compañía, la mera yuxtaposición de cuerpos calientes proporciona el más profundo de los consuelos animales.

So sturdy and solid, so wide, so thick, none of that delicate wristy business of my imaginings. Built like an oak tree, against which I could pitch my pillow and read; mornings, I could curl into the crook of your branches.

Likewise, the simple adjacency of warm bodies supplies the deepest of animal comfort.

Me paso el día sin hacer nada. Sería un consuelo para mí estar con alguien que tampoco hiciera nada.

Elaine, I remember the first time I met you. You were so young, so scared. It nearly broke my heart to see you so.

I took solace in my relationship with God who, along with my dog, was my best friend growing up.