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“And then, a strangely comforting thought trickled through me—I had nothing, so I could do anything now. Anything I wanted. I had nothing left to lose.”
“a single poemthe thing that can keep melight on my feet,when my soul isheavy with sorrow.”
“We hold on to poetry because it lights a fire in our soul and keeps our bodies warm.”
“Her short blond hair shifted in the wind, and she appeared the very definition of peace and comfort. Like she belonged in the world that had existed before everything was scorched.”
“This pain is comfort. It is the solace of physicality, like a touch.”
“Sometimes you just need the comforts of home, the familiarity of your own family bed and only the pampering a mother can do.”
“Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perseverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?”
“[his healing skills] ..lay in the ability to comfort, to comfort in the proper sense, to make strong, to fortify”
“You are no ruin sir--no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about your roots, whether you ask them or not, because they take delight in your bountiful shadow; and as ...”
“To lose focus means to lose energy. The absolutely wrong thing to attempt when we've lost focus is to rush about struggling to pack it all back together again. Rushing is not the thing to do... Pat...”
“There is something in this January Siberian landscape that overpowers, oppresses, stuns. Above all, it is its enormity, its boundlessness, its oceanic limitlessness. The earth has no end here; the ...”
“I wish I’d known those words on the day I watched those German troops land, plane-load after plane-load of them—and come off ships down in the harbor! All I could think of was damn them, damn them,...”
“some words bring warmthjust bybeing next to each other.”
“The whole bloated sensation of success is wiped clean when among family. There is no pressure of being looked upon as 'the brilliant one' but rather the comforts of always being the pupil.”
“Not everything.” Lily takes a deep breath and begins to pace the room. “Not everything, because you aren’t. It may feel like you are, and I totally get it, I really do. The world feels like it’s cr...”
“When we are sad...it can be comforting to cling to familiar objects, to things that don't change.”
“We’ve run out of comforting things to say.”
“Contrary to what a lot of people believe (or hope), comfort doesn’t take the pain away. Comfort slides in beside the pain, pulling up a chair so that we have something more than sorrow in our heart...”
“Dear Eloisa (said I) there’s no occasion for your crying so much about such a trifle. (for I was willing to make light of it in order to comfort her) I beg you would not mind it – You see it does n...”
“I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious.”
