1,197 Quotes About Comfort

  • Author Susan Orlean
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    Libraries were a solace in the Depression. They were warm and dry and useful and free; they provided a place for people to be together in a desolate time. You could feel prosperous at the library. There was so much there, such an abundance, when everything else felt scant and ravaged, and you could take any of it home for free. Or you could just sit at a reading table and take it all in.

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  • Author Suh Yoon Lee
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    Just like water can’t remain in a shaken glass, money can’t remain in a turbulent mind. When you’re comfortable, the water stays perfectly still where it is.

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  • Author V.E. Schwab
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    Of all the inventions Addie has seen her ushered into the world — steam-powered trains, electric lights, photography, and phones, and airplanes, and computers — movies might just be her favorite one. Books are wonderful, portable, lasting, but sitting there, in the darkened theater, the wide screen filling her vision, the world falls away, and for a few short hours she is someone else, plunged into romance and intrigue and comedy and adventure.

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