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Quotes About Reassurance

He began to read out loud. He did not read in the same clear way he recited his poems, but softly, sitting hunched over the table, the words breaking here and there under the burden of his new, thickening voice. "'Are not two sparrows sold for a small coin?'" he read. "'Yet not one of them falls to the ground without your Father's knowledge. Even all the hairs of your head are counted. So do not be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.
~ Alice McDermott
sitting in the sand with her back against a log, crying. She smiled at Kath, she said, 'don't think I'm sad'.
~ Alice Munro
Yet those few hours filled her with an assurance that the life she was going back to, which seemed so makeshift and unsatisfactory, was only temporary and could easily be put up with.
~ Alice Munro
Kat embraced her, concealing her dismay as best she could. For these few months, fraught as they were, Elizabeth had been entirely hers again.
~ Alison Weir
Ça ne fait rien"4 (or "It does not matter," more loosely translated as "Don't worry, we'll sort it"). Paul and Linda heard Richards's comment as "San Ferry Anne," a phrase they adopted to mean "don't worry," and true to form, McCartney began toying with the phrase as the title for a new song.
~ Allan Kozinn
Smoking is an outward signal of inner turmoil or conflict and most smoking has less to do with nicotine addiction and more to do with the need for reassurance.
~ Allan Pease
One does not know yet whether Christ was God or the Devil - Buddha is more reassuring.
~ Allen Ginsberg
Reassuring lies had always been the glue that held his family together, after all.
~ Joe Abercrombie
This is an easy thing in the eyes of the LORD"2
~ Joe Gibbs
He searched the ground floor and found only shadow and stillness, which should've reassured him but didn't. It was the wrong kind of stillness, the shocked stillness that follows the bang of a cherry bomb.
~ Joe Hill
Where do you go when you die? Ha ha. Go on, go on and tell her, Billy." Billy smiles. "You become a little voice in someone's ear telling them that things will be alright.
~ Joe Meno
I'm scared," he said. "Dad's face—" "Listen to me," Kale said. "That wasn't Dad." Trig stared at him. "That was something else. We know what Dad was like.
~ Joe Schreiber
Are you okay?" "Yeah." "Good," she said, "because if you fall off a skyscraper, I'll be so mad at you.
~ Joel N. Ross
Look at that house, so quiet and willing. If there is a good way to die, that's it out there. Graceful and calm in the face of inevitability. It feels generous, almost. Beauty and reassurances are not for ourselves. Of course death will come. And of course there is no good way to die. There is no peace. A weight will not lift. A leaf will not fall. But we can pretend.
~ Joey Comeau
I was here, pet. I was always here. Even if you told me you needed me just for an hour, for this, I would have been there." Marcus spoke gruffly into his hair, holding him tighter. "Why is it so fucking hard for you to believe I love you?
~ Joey W. Hill
See? Small steps. Just take it one thing at a time and you'll be fine. Angel, I'm not going to hurt you. You know that, right? Can you nod for me? Breathe a little?" Tender humor mixed with the concern in his face could undo her. And give her reassurance. She was rather amazed at the combination.
~ Joey W. Hill
Humor is proof that everything is going to be all right with God nevertheless.
~ Charles M. Schulz
To have been accompanied on life's journey by the symbolic and monumental props of the gods has been a continuing and reassuring source of solitude. Such props quiet the inner voices that whisper about the inevitable end of life's drama.
~ E. Fuller Torrey
Can I hold your hand?" he asked. I put mine in his. "The universe is seeming really huge right now," he told me. "I need something to hold on to." "I'm here.
~ E. Lockhart
She made me act normal. Because I was. Because I could. She told me to breathe and sit up. And
~ E. Lockhart
I'll be fine, they tell me. I won't die.
~ E. Lockhart
Can I hold your hand?" he asked. "The universe is seeming really huge right now," he told me. "I need something to hold on to." "I'm here.
~ E. Lockhart
It's okay,' I say to Johnny. 'You're not feeble. You merely had a suboptimal moment. I'm sure you'll be optimal from now on.
~ E. Lockhart
You all right, Maurice?' – for he had sighed. 'You comfortable? Rest your head on me more, the way you like more … that's it more, and Don't You Worry. You're With Me. Don't Worry.
~ E.M. Forster