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"There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship."
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"When you get lost in a really strange place, nothing is more comforting than found your friend whom you trust and can show the way."
"There is a primal reassurance in being touched, in knowing that someone else, someone close to you, wants to be touching you. There is a bone-deep security that goes with the brush of a human hand, a silent, reflex-level affirmation that someone is near, that someone cares."
"But with Dimitri, I never felt like I had to be anything more what I already was. I didn't have to entertain him or think up jokes or even flirt. It was enough to just be together, to be completely comfortable in each other's presence.."
"Comfort has been the very reason why so many people never lived their real and true destiny though they got to a certain comfortable destination!"
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"People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us."
"The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe."
"In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way."
"The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all."
"I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same."
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