Quotes About Coziness

It was the Dutch of this era who invented the idea of the home as a personal, intimate space; one might say they invented coziness.

Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.

Imagine a story that puts wood in the fireplace.

The rain thickened; then slacked, then came down again in floods; the night crackled and roared with change and iron cold. Drunk with coziness, the pup wallowed beside me and groaned, and I remember wondering, before I slept, a little more about the relationship of storms to man … If, being animal, we ring like guitar strings to nature's furies, what hope can there be for our ultimate, planned peacefulness?

Shut in from all the world without,We sat the clean-winged hearth about.

She wore peacefulness as if it were a blanket she'd decided to wrap around her shoulders.

My mom says that when it rains you never feel like you should be anywhere but home.

We find comfort in routine and in the warmth of our own living rooms.

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If it looks like your grandma's bedsheets, I'll put it on my body.

I reveled in the smallness, the coziness of an upstairs bedroom in a traditional American Cape Cod house the half-floor that forces you to duck, to feel small and naive again, ready for anything, dying for love, your body a chimney filled with odd, black smoke. These square, squat, awkward rooms are like a fifty-square-foot paean to teenage-hood, to ripeness, to the first and last taste of youth.

Thus the dream house must possess every virtue. How­ ever spacious, it must also be a cottage, a dove-cote, a nest, a chrysalis. Intimacy needs the heart of a nest. Erasmus, his biographer tells us, was long in finding a nook in his fine house in which he could put his little body with safety. He ended by confining himself to one room until he could breathe the parched air that was necessary to him.

I love really simple colours at home - lots of cream, beige, and grey with rustic wooden tables.

I like feeling warm inside a small home, knowing there's a set of glowing eyes out in the woods somewhere. It's just a vibe I enjoy writing about, and it deals simultaneously with safety and danger.

There are certain winter days when bed and bath seem to be the only two tolerable places in the world.

It was the kind of light that rests on your shoulders the way a cat lies on your lap. So familiar.

What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?

Flowers in earthenware jugs are everywhere. There's an old-fashioned range and a scrubbed wooden table and a stable door open to the outside. As I'm wondering whether I should be making conversation, a chicken wanders in and starts scratching at the ground.

I believe the houses of the future will be...designed to welcome rather than to impress. People...will want homes in which every room is used every day and in which there are no wasted spaces--homes less like furniture stores or warehouses and more like nests.

Non c'è posto al mondo che io ami più della cucina. Non importa dove si trova, com'è fatta: purchè sia una cucina, un posto dove si fa da mangiare, io sto bene. Se possibile le preferisco funzionali e vissute. Magari con tantissimi strofinacci asciutti e puliti e le piastrelle bianche che scintillano. Anche le cucine incredibilmente sporche mi piacciono da morire.

hot breakfast on a cold winter morning

I just really love being in my pajamas.

I'm happiest when I'm hanging out at home or in my room.

Give me a chair and a table, fire enough to keep me from shivering, the few books I like best and writing materials, and I am absolutely content.