comfort

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a8507aa	Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.	comfort pets	James Herriot
36a9397	Maybe that was why she couldn't cry, she realized, staring dry-eyed at the ceiling. Because what was the point in crying when there was no one there to comfort you? And what was worse, when you couldn't even comfort yourself?	comfort crying	Cassandra Clare
6dc2a22	Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.	comfort philosophy irrevocability state-of-mind completion fulfillment belonging permanence security attachment home safety psychology	James Baldwin
d2fa2c4	Adventures are all very well in their place, but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.	pain freedom comfort contrast meals	Neil Gaiman
23d2c00	The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.	comfort security home safety protection	Maya Angelou
2998dc7	Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.	rain reading comfort tea	Bill Watterson
b4b7b63	She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much.	loneliness suffering comfort inspirational girls	Betty Smith
8bcdbf4	She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted.	comfort death life inspirational nice	Cecelia Ahern
1e63cf0	Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.	jane-austen comfort inspirational pride-and-prejudice	Jane Austen
b880fe1	Never underestimate how much assistance, how much satisfaction, how much comfort, how much soul and transcendence there might be in a well-made taco and a cold bottle of beer.	comfort taco	Tom Robbins
07b5c1e	The voice so filled with nostalgia that you could almost see the memories floating through the blue smoke, memories not only of music and joy and youth, but perhaps, of dreams. They listened to the music, each hearing it in his own way, feeling relaxed and a part of the music, a part of each other, and almost a part of the world.	youth joy comfort music	Hubert Selby Jr.
6c3c67f	Books, for me, are a home. Books don't make a home--they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is a different kind of time and a different kind of space.	literature reading comfort home	Jeanette Winterson
f6611c5	That Shay was in possesion of hand grenades was a comforting thought showed what kind of night this had become.	war comfort hand-grenade shay specials uglies	Scott Westerfeld
47d04da	The human touch is that little snippet of physical affection that brings a bit of comfort, support, and kindness. It doesn't take much from the one who gives it, but can make a huge difference in the one who receives it.	comfort human human-touch humanity-quotes humanity love inspirational kindess support	Mya Robarts
369ffb4	The prefect evening...lying down on the couch beside the bookcase and reading himself sleepy...Jim lying opposite him at the other end of the couch, also reading; the two of them absorbed in their books yet so completely aware of each other's presence.	comfort love	Christopher Isherwood
b3d26e0	"Oh, look, the lights are so pretty," I said dreamily, having just noticed them. I smiled at the way the lights were dancing overhead, pink and yellow and blue. I felt some pressure on my arm and thought, I should look over and see what's going on, but then the thought was gone, sliding away like Jell-O off a hot car hood. "Fang?" "Yeah. I'm here." I struggled to focus on him. "I'm so glad you're here." "Yeah, I got that." "I don't know what I'd do without you." I peered up at him, trying to see past the too-bright lights. "You'd be fine," he muttered. "No," I said, suddenly struck by how unfine I would be. "I would be totally unfine. Totally." It seemed very urgent that he understand this. Again I felt some tugging on my arm, and I really wondered what that was about. Was Ella's mom going to start this procedure any time soon? "It's okay. Just relax." He sounded stiff and nervous. "Just...relax. Don't try to talk." "I don't want my chip anymore," I explained groggily, then frowned. "Actually, I never wanted that chip." "Okay," said Fang. "We're taking it out." "I just want you to hold my hand." "I am holding your hand." "Oh. I knew that." I drifted off for a few minutes, barely aware of anything, but feeling Fang's hand still in mine. "Do you have a La-Z-Boy somewhere?" I roused myself to ask, every word an effort. "Um, no," said Ella's voice, somewhere behind my head. "I think I would like a La-Z-Boy," I mused, letting my eyes drift shut again. "Fang, don't go anywhere." "I won't. I'm here." "Okay. I need you here. Don't leave me." "I won't." "Fang, Fang, Fang," I murmured, overwhelmed with emotion. "I love you. I love you sooo much." I tried to hold out my arms to show how much, but I couldn't move them. "Oh, jeez," Fang said, sounding strangled."	comfort friends friendship love dizziness don-t-go operation saying-i-love-you holding-hands procedure together otp i-love-you	James Patterson
c015c63	Comfort is beauty muted by heroin. Sadness is beauty drained by lack of it.	comfort sadness drained heroin	Luke Davies
e33155e	I need anything, anything that will stop me from living in the kind of death the bourgeois eat, the death called comfort.	rebellion comfort meaning fear escape-velocity bourgeoisie materialism mediocrity safety	Kathy Acker
7588efa	"I don't matter here, Shane. I feel like I just don't matter. Stupid, right?" "No," he said. He sounded so gentle it broke her heart. "It's how most people feel most of the time, Claire. You've grown up being special, and this is how most people live their lives...on their own, unnoticed. And they get used to that feeling. It's just new for you."	feelings comfort shane-collins	Rachel Caine
148784d	It struck her how eating was a comfort during a hard time because it reminded you that there had been other days, good days, when you'd eaten the same thing. Reminded you there were good days in life, when precious little else did. (268)	comfort good-times food	Ron Rash
46fc12f	I found the prospect daunting, but somehow comforting, too, because the counselors insisted it could be done, and, after all, many of them were recovering alcoholics themselves.	comfort rehab recovery	Craig Ferguson
90c62aa	Some people love their story that much even if it's of their own misery, even if it ties them to unhappiness, or they don't know how to stop telling it. Maybe it's about loving coherence more than comfort, but it might also be about fear--you have to die a little to be reborn, and death comes first, the death of a story, a familiar version of yourself	story comfort fear unknown	Rebecca Solnit
529e876	Replace worry with prayer. Make the decision to pray whenever you catch yourself worrying.	men prayer women comfort jesus faith god worry decision worrying	Elizabeth George
5511fee	You start to die the moment you are born. The whole of life is cutting through the pack with death. So take it easy.	comfort living death life relax	Ian Fleming
b0a06a1	... there are things that outweigh comfort, unless one is an old woman or a cat.	comfort	Ursula K. Le Guin
c6c9ed1	Here's a comforting thought for you, Peter,' he said. 'However long you may live, the world will never lose its ability to surprise you with its beauty.	comfort surprise	Ben Aaronovitch
86e5606	Every minister worthy of the name has to walk the line between prophetic vision and spiritual sustenance, between telling people the comforting things they want to hear and challenging them with the difficult things they need to hear. In Oxford, Daddy began to feel as though all the members wanted him to do was to marry them and bury them and stay away from their souls.	comfort challenging saving-souls marrying prophets ministers sustenance	Timothy B. Tyson
150f1b5	It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how I come to know trees fear man.	persona comfort change defence dehumanisation abuse-survivor tree wood	Alice Walker
a629d33	Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.	sympathy comfort science	E.M. Forster
966553e	"A disciple does not ask, "How much can I keep?" but, "How much more can I give?" Whenever we start to get comfortable with our level of giving, it's time to raise it again."	comfort faith trust disciple give stewardship share keep giving discipline obedience	Randy Alcorn
9ec4ed2	That's the best thing I can think of. Having a good hold on your arse always makes me feel steady.	comfort love best-thing jamie-fraser	Diana Gabaldon
f19a75e	Such a fierce little thing she is, they say, she has no need of comfort. They are wrong in that, I fear. All men need comfort.	feelings comfort fierceness fire-and-blood mistakes	George R.R. Martin
b3b34b3	But she wouldn't pray, she took what comfort and credit she could for not praying; it wasn't that one disbelieved in prayer; one never lost all one's belief in magic. It was that she preferred to plan, it was fairer, it wasn't loading the dice.	magic prayer comfort religion planning secularism	Graham Greene
c75d0fc	When you're kind to people, and you pay attention, you make a field of comfort around them, and you get it back--the Golden Rule meets the Law of Karma meets Murphy's Law.	people comfort law-of-karma murphy-s-law golden-rule	Anne Lamott
25a1cdc	She was of traditional build herself, but her figure was largely concealed by the folds of a generously cut shift dress made out of a flecked green fabric. It was like a tent, thought Mma Ramotswe--a camouflage tent of the sort that the Botswana Defence Force might use. But I do not sit in judgement on the dresses of others, she told herself, and a tent was a practical enough garment, if that is what one felt comfortable in.	comfort humor judgement	Alexander McCall Smith
7647701	It [Foucault's Pendulum] can be very comforting for people of my generation, who ate disappointment for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.	comfort disappointment	Umberto Eco
538c29a	"She felt him shifting himself under her and around her, rearranging himself, until she was being held in a real embrace. She opened blurring eyes to find that he had tucked her between his forelegs with his neck curled around her. "Shhh-" he said, as she closed her eyes and threw her arms around his warm, soft, slippery neck. "I know, I know. It's all horrible. Just go ahead and cry, Andie. Go ahead and let it out. I think you've been holding it in too long." She couldn't have stopped the flood now if she'd wanted to, and she really didn't want to. He was right. She'd been holding it in too long. She sobbed against his neck, eyes streaming and burning, throat raw and sore, chest aching. She babbled between the sobs, nothing really coherent, but just- She'd wanted a mother. She'd wanted to make Cassiopeia proud of her so that she'd 'be' that mother. Show her that even her if her daughter wasn't like 'her,' she was still worth something. Was useful. Could stand at the Queen's side and- That was all she wanted. And her mother found her so unworthy that Cassiopeia threw her away to feed a monster, like so much offal. "Oh, Andie," Peri sighed in her ear. "Oh, my poor girl. It's Cassiopeia that's unworthy of 'you."	comfort mother-and-daughter heartbreaking crying	Mercedes Lackey
229d908	"You quit? I thought you said it was too dangerous to quit, Alex. You said people who try to get out die." "I almost did. If it weren't for Gary Frankel, I probably wouldn't have made it. . . ." "Gary Frankel?" The nicest, geekiest guy in school? For the first time I scan Alex's face and see a faint, new scar above his eye and nasty ones by his ear and neck. "Oh, God! W-what did they d-do to you?" He takes my hand and places it on his chest. His eyes are intense and dark, like they were the first time I noticed him in the parking lot that first day of school senior year. "It took me a long time to realize I needed to fix everything The choices I made. The gang. Bein' beaten to within an inch of my life and branded like cattle was nothin' compared to losin' you. If I could take back every word I said in the hospital, I would. I thought if I pushed you away, I'd be protectin' you from what happened to Paco and my dad." He looks up and his eyes pierce mine. "I'll never push you away again, Brittany. Ever. I swear." Beaten? Branded? I'm feeling sick to my stomach and tears sting my eyes. "Shh." He puts his arms around me, rubbing his hands across my back. "It's all right. I'm okay," he chants over and over again, his voice catching."	comfort beaten brittany-ellis quit gang crying danger tears	Simone Elkeles

Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.

James Herriot

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Maybe that was why she couldn't cry, she realized, staring dry-eyed at the ceiling. Because what was the point in crying when there was no one there to comfort you? And what was worse, when you couldn't even comfort yourself?

comfort crying

Cassandra Clare

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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

comfort philosophy irrevocability state-of-mind completion fulfillment belonging permanence security attachment home safety psychology

James Baldwin

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Adventures are all very well in their place, but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.

pain freedom comfort contrast meals

Neil Gaiman

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The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

comfort security home safety protection

Maya Angelou

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Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.

rain reading comfort tea

Bill Watterson

b4b7b63

She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much.

loneliness suffering comfort inspirational girls

Betty  Smith

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She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted.

comfort death life inspirational nice

Cecelia Ahern

1e63cf0

Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.

jane-austen comfort inspirational pride-and-prejudice

Jane Austen

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Never underestimate how much assistance, how much satisfaction, how much comfort, how much soul and transcendence there might be in a well-made taco and a cold bottle of beer.

comfort taco

Tom Robbins

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The voice so filled with nostalgia that you could almost see the memories floating through the blue smoke, memories not only of music and joy and youth, but perhaps, of dreams. They listened to the music, each hearing it in his own way, feeling relaxed and a part of the music, a part of each other, and almost a part of the world.

youth joy comfort music

Hubert Selby Jr.

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Books, for me, are a home. Books don't make a home--they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is a different kind of time and a different kind of space.

literature reading comfort home

Jeanette Winterson

f6611c5

That Shay was in possesion of hand grenades was a comforting thought showed what kind of night this had become.

war comfort hand-grenade shay specials uglies

Scott Westerfeld

47d04da

The human touch is that little snippet of physical affection that brings a bit of comfort, support, and kindness. It doesn't take much from the one who gives it, but can make a huge difference in the one who receives it.

comfort human human-touch humanity-quotes humanity love inspirational kindess support

Mya Robarts

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The prefect evening...lying down on the couch beside the bookcase and reading himself sleepy...Jim lying opposite him at the other end of the couch, also reading; the two of them absorbed in their books yet so completely aware of each other's presence.

comfort love

Christopher Isherwood

b3d26e0

"Oh, look, the lights are so pretty," I said dreamily, having just noticed them. I smiled at the way the lights were dancing overhead, pink and yellow and blue. I felt some pressure on my arm and thought, I should look over and see what's going on, but then the thought was gone, sliding away like Jell-O off a hot car hood. "Fang?" "Yeah. I'm here." I struggled to focus on him. "I'm so glad you're here." "Yeah, I got that." "I don't know what I'd do without you." I peered up at him, trying to see past the too-bright lights. "You'd be fine," he muttered. "No," I said, suddenly struck by how unfine I would be. "I would be totally unfine. Totally." It seemed very urgent that he understand this. Again I felt some tugging on my arm, and I really wondered what that was about. Was Ella's mom going to start this procedure any time soon? "It's okay. Just relax." He sounded stiff and nervous. "Just...relax. Don't try to talk." "I don't want my chip anymore," I explained groggily, then frowned. "Actually, I never wanted that chip." "Okay," said Fang. "We're taking it out." "I just want you to hold my hand." "I am holding your hand." "Oh. I knew that." I drifted off for a few minutes, barely aware of anything, but feeling Fang's hand still in mine. "Do you have a La-Z-Boy somewhere?" I roused myself to ask, every word an effort. "Um, no," said Ella's voice, somewhere behind my head. "I think I would like a La-Z-Boy," I mused, letting my eyes drift shut again. "Fang, don't go anywhere." "I won't. I'm here." "Okay. I need you here. Don't leave me." "I won't." "Fang, Fang, Fang," I murmured, overwhelmed with emotion. "I love you. I love you sooo much." I tried to hold out my arms to show how much, but I couldn't move them. "Oh, jeez," Fang said, sounding strangled."

comfort friends friendship love dizziness don-t-go operation saying-i-love-you holding-hands procedure together otp i-love-you

James Patterson

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Comfort is beauty muted by heroin. Sadness is beauty drained by lack of it.

comfort sadness drained heroin

Luke Davies

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I need anything, anything that will stop me from living in the kind of death the bourgeois eat, the death called comfort.

rebellion comfort meaning fear escape-velocity bourgeoisie materialism mediocrity safety

Kathy Acker

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"I don't matter here, Shane. I feel like I just don't matter. Stupid, right?" "No," he said. He sounded so gentle it broke her heart. "It's how most people feel most of the time, Claire. You've grown up being special, and this is how most people live their lives...on their own, unnoticed. And they get used to that feeling. It's just new for you."

feelings comfort shane-collins

Rachel Caine

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It struck her how eating was a comfort during a hard time because it reminded you that there had been other days, good days, when you'd eaten the same thing. Reminded you there were good days in life, when precious little else did. (268)

comfort good-times food

Ron Rash

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I found the prospect daunting, but somehow comforting, too, because the counselors insisted it could be done, and, after all, many of them were recovering alcoholics themselves.

comfort rehab recovery

Craig Ferguson

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Some people love their story that much even if it's of their own misery, even if it ties them to unhappiness, or they don't know how to stop telling it. Maybe it's about loving coherence more than comfort, but it might also be about fear--you have to die a little to be reborn, and death comes first, the death of a story, a familiar version of yourself

story comfort fear unknown

Rebecca Solnit

529e876

Replace worry with prayer. Make the decision to pray whenever you catch yourself worrying.

men prayer women comfort jesus faith god worry decision worrying

Elizabeth George

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You start to die the moment you are born. The whole of life is cutting through the pack with death. So take it easy.

comfort living death life relax

Ian Fleming

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... there are things that outweigh comfort, unless one is an old woman or a cat.

comfort

Ursula K. Le Guin

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Here's a comforting thought for you, Peter,' he said. 'However long you may live, the world will never lose its ability to surprise you with its beauty.

comfort surprise

Ben Aaronovitch

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Every minister worthy of the name has to walk the line between prophetic vision and spiritual sustenance, between telling people the comforting things they want to hear and challenging them with the difficult things they need to hear. In Oxford, Daddy began to feel as though all the members wanted him to do was to marry them and bury them and stay away from their souls.

comfort challenging saving-souls marrying prophets ministers sustenance

Timothy B. Tyson

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It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how I come to know trees fear man.

persona comfort change defence dehumanisation abuse-survivor tree wood

Alice Walker

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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.

sympathy comfort science

E.M. Forster

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"A disciple does not ask, "How much can I keep?" but, "How much more can I give?" Whenever we start to get comfortable with our level of giving, it's time to raise it again."

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Randy Alcorn

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That's the best thing I can think of. Having a good hold on your arse always makes me feel steady.

comfort love best-thing jamie-fraser

Diana Gabaldon

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Such a fierce little thing she is, they say, she has no need of comfort. They are wrong in that, I fear. All men need comfort.

feelings comfort fierceness fire-and-blood mistakes

George R.R. Martin

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But she wouldn't pray, she took what comfort and credit she could for not praying; it wasn't that one disbelieved in prayer; one never lost all one's belief in magic. It was that she preferred to plan, it was fairer, it wasn't loading the dice.

magic prayer comfort religion planning secularism

Graham Greene

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When you're kind to people, and you pay attention, you make a field of comfort around them, and you get it back--the Golden Rule meets the Law of Karma meets Murphy's Law.

people comfort law-of-karma murphy-s-law golden-rule

Anne Lamott

25a1cdc

She was of traditional build herself, but her figure was largely concealed by the folds of a generously cut shift dress made out of a flecked green fabric. It was like a tent, thought Mma Ramotswe--a camouflage tent of the sort that the Botswana Defence Force might use. But I do not sit in judgement on the dresses of others, she told herself, and a tent was a practical enough garment, if that is what one felt comfortable in.

comfort humor judgement

Alexander McCall Smith

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It [Foucault's Pendulum] can be very comforting for people of my generation, who ate disappointment for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

comfort disappointment

Umberto Eco

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"She felt him shifting himself under her and around her, rearranging himself, until she was being held in a real embrace. She opened blurring eyes to find that he had tucked her between his forelegs with his neck curled around her. "Shhh-" he said, as she closed her eyes and threw her arms around his warm, soft, slippery neck. "I know, I know. It's all horrible. Just go ahead and cry, Andie. Go ahead and let it out. I think you've been holding it in too long." She couldn't have stopped the flood now if she'd wanted to, and she really didn't want to. He was right. She'd been holding it in too long. She sobbed against his neck, eyes streaming and burning, throat raw and sore, chest aching. She babbled between the sobs, nothing really coherent, but just- She'd wanted a mother. She'd wanted to make Cassiopeia proud of her so that she'd 'be' that mother. Show her that even her if her daughter wasn't like 'her,' she was still worth something. Was useful. Could stand at the Queen's side and- That was all she wanted. And her mother found her so unworthy that Cassiopeia threw her away to feed a monster, like so much offal. "Oh, Andie," Peri sighed in her ear. "Oh, my poor girl. It's Cassiopeia that's unworthy of 'you."

comfort mother-and-daughter heartbreaking crying

Mercedes Lackey

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"You quit? I thought you said it was too dangerous to quit, Alex. You said people who try to get out die." "I almost did. If it weren't for Gary Frankel, I probably wouldn't have made it. . . ." "Gary Frankel?" The nicest, geekiest guy in school? For the first time I scan Alex's face and see a faint, new scar above his eye and nasty ones by his ear and neck. "Oh, God! W-what did they d-do to you?" He takes my hand and places it on his chest. His eyes are intense and dark, like they were the first time I noticed him in the parking lot that first day of school senior year. "It took me a long time to realize I needed to fix everything The choices I made. The gang. Bein' beaten to within an inch of my life and branded like cattle was nothin' compared to losin' you. If I could take back every word I said in the hospital, I would. I thought if I pushed you away, I'd be protectin' you from what happened to Paco and my dad." He looks up and his eyes pierce mine. "I'll never push you away again, Brittany. Ever. I swear." Beaten? Branded? I'm feeling sick to my stomach and tears sting my eyes. "Shh." He puts his arms around me, rubbing his hands across my back. "It's all right. I'm okay," he chants over and over again, his voice catching."

comfort beaten brittany-ellis quit gang crying danger tears

Simone Elkeles