Quotes About Comfort

When you go through deep waters and great trouble, I will be with you. When you go through rivers of difficulty, you will not drown!

I love those small airplane bathrooms. It's like your own little apartment on the plane. You go in, close the door, the light comes right on. It's a little surprise part every time you go in.

The hospital is: Rest. Cleanliness. And if it doesn't work out, they help you get to the next place. When you walk in the sign says "Hospital," but it could also be: Bed, Bath and Beyond.

The blanket was there, but it was the boy's embrace that covered and warmed him.

Every child's bedroom is as important as a telescope orbiting the planet earth or a philosopher's study.

Letter from Mr. B: Why does a back scratch feel better coming from somebody else than if you do it yourself?

He still heard his mother's voice--Davey--rise like whisper-dust from unseen corners in the house, but it was no longer the only voice he heard. His ears were also filled with the voices of others--his father and Primrose and Refrigerator John and his grandmother. Of course, all of their words for a thousand years could not fill the hole left by his mother, but they could raise a loving fence around it so he didn't keep falling in.

like him, they preferred their lives delivered to them in a box.

The air felt like warm soup.

Her knees began to shake, not because he was beautiful, which he had always been, but because coming into this room with him here waiting for her…it was like coming home.

She was asleep, that blond hair swirled like butter on the pillow beneath her

Pasquale's eyes felt heavy and he thought it might be the most intimate thing possible, to fall asleep next to someone in the afternoon.

The truth hurts only if you're comforted by lies.

I have an awning.

Your parents died. Your world fell apart. I nod. He puts his hand on my cheek. You were left drowning I nod again. And you're struggling to breathe I am. It's a constant struggle to stay near the surface I have just enough air to stop me from going totally under, but not enough to thrive. So do it. Breathe. Just Breathe. He turns up the volume and strokes my hair.

For a few brief moments, Matt got to hold Julie in his arms. And that gift? That would stay with him forever.

Her body pressed against his felt like the most natural thing in the world, and the way she fit against him as though they were made for this embrace was overwhelming.

I feel greatful, though, that Sabin was my home base tonight. He let me come back to him as often as I needed to ground myself. When the noise was too much or the social interaction felt overwhelming, he remained my rock.

Late afternoon arrives, and I'm still unshowered and in my robe. The feel and smell and taste of Esben are all over me, and I love it.

Our lives and the love we share are the saving graces of that night.

I'll take you in any condition, but you may feel better after a shower.

And so, irritants, it is with this that I leave you. You are spared so that you can think of what it really is to live in a world that engenders a pain for which there is no comfort. Here is your product! You have the rest of your lives to think of this. And I suggest you think quickly, for a long life is never a guarantee.

Pet names are a persistent remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated.

Books are the best means—private, discreet, reliable—of overcoming reality.