--- title: "1 Comforted Quotes By Tosca Lee" description: "1 Comforted quotes by Tosca Lee. Plus more from Tosca Lee and more Comforted sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c35/tosca-lee-19133_comforted_i-slept-in-the-grip-of-that-love-comfort_2887664.jpg" --- > [“I slept in the grip of that love, comforted, thinking I should forget my longing within it, knowing that all was somehow well...In the morning when I stirred, I knew...I knew I lay here in my own flesh, but not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tosca-lee/i-slept-in-the-grip-of-that-love-comforted-thinking-i-should-forget/) [Tosca Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tosca-lee/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c35/tosca-lee-19133_comforted_i-slept-in-the-grip-of-that-love-comfort_2887664.jpg) ## More by Tosca Lee > [“Sometime before sleep it occurred to me that the true nature of being without might mean never knowing what one lacked.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tosca-lee/sometime-before-sleep-it-occurred-to-me-that-the-true-nature-of-being/) [Tosca Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tosca-lee/) > [“In the beginning there was God...but for me there was Adam.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tosca-lee/in-the-beginning-there-was-god-but-for-me-there-was-adam/) [Tosca Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tosca-lee/) > [“You are necessary to that end, and to me...you are all I have of the garden. You are the image of me and of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tosca-lee/you-are-necessary-to-that-end-and-to-me-you-are-all-i-have-of-the/) [Tosca Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tosca-lee/) > [God has a story to tell about you. A major part of it is you telling yours.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tosca-lee/god-has-a-story-to-tell-about-you-a-major-part-of-it-is-you-telling/) [Tosca Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tosca-lee/) > [“I have always contended that girls are the sturdier of the genders and wondered in secret if the One that Is might not best…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tosca-lee/i-have-always-contended-that-girls-are-the-sturdier-of-the-genders/) [Tosca Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tosca-lee/) > [“Go away. Go live out your gnat's existence." "But we're not done!" Her eyes lolled back to me. "Yes, we are." "But--I don't know…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tosca-lee/go-away-go-live-out-your-gnat-s-existence-but-we-re-not-done-her-eyes/) [Tosca Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tosca-lee/) > [“Suffice it to say, we were horrified by the entire concept of dying, even if we weren't the ones with the death sentence.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tosca-lee/suffice-it-to-say-we-were-horrified-by-the-entire-concept-of-dying/) [Tosca Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tosca-lee/) > [“The history keepers will no doubt tell their own tale, and the priests another. It is the men's accounts that seem to survive a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tosca-lee/the-history-keepers-will-no-doubt-tell-their-own-tale-and-the-priests/) [Tosca Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tosca-lee/) > [“So as I said, the world was mutating," she said, prick, prick, pricking at the cloth, looking up at me once to make sure,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tosca-lee/so-as-i-said-the-world-was-mutating-she-said-prick-prick-pricking-at/) [Tosca Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tosca-lee/) > [“Trust me, at the time nine hundred years seemed frighteningly short - it still does. I really don't know how you cope with your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tosca-lee/trust-me-at-the-time-nine-hundred-years-seemed-frighteningly-short-it/) [Tosca Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tosca-lee/) > [And I know that God made the heart the most fragile and resilient of all organs, that a lifetime of joy and pain might…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tosca-lee/and-i-know-that-god-made-the-heart-the-most-fragile-and-resilient-of/) [Tosca Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tosca-lee/) > [“She shrugged. "He sat back, called it good, and rested." I waited. She waited. I raised my brows. "And?" Her mouth curved into a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tosca-lee/she-shrugged-he-sat-back-called-it-good-and-rested-i-waited-she/) [Tosca Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tosca-lee/) > [“Sweat trickled down my sides inside my sweater. "Why? Why did you do this?" "Because this is your life, Clay: fleeting, ephemeral, and insignificant…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tosca-lee/sweat-trickled-down-my-sides-inside-my-sweater-why-why-did-you-do/) [Tosca Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tosca-lee/) > [I always hope that readers, of my books, will take away whatever is most meaningful to them wherever they are at right now. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tosca-lee/i-always-hope-that-readers-of-my-books-will-take-away-whatever-is/) [Tosca Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tosca-lee/) > [I was beloved. I had been hoped for. Somehow, I was necessary.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tosca-lee/i-was-beloved-i-had-been-hoped-for-somehow-i-was-necessary/) [Tosca Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tosca-lee/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/comforted/tosca-lee/#itemlist", "name": "1 Comforted Quotes By Tosca Lee", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“I slept in the grip of that love, comforted, thinking I should forget my longing within it, knowing that all was somehow well...In the morning when I stirred, I knew...I knew I lay here in my own flesh, but not alone.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Tosca Lee" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tosca-lee/i-slept-in-the-grip-of-that-love-comforted-thinking-i-should-forget/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c35/tosca-lee-19133_comforted_i-slept-in-the-grip-of-that-love-comfort_2887664.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c35/tosca-lee-19133_comforted_i-slept-in-the-grip-of-that-love-comfort_2887664.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c35/tosca-lee-19133_comforted_i-slept-in-the-grip-of-that-love-comfort_2887664.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I slept in the grip of that love, comforted, thinking I should forget my longing within it, knowing that all…” — Tosca Lee", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/comforted/tosca-lee/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/comforted/tosca-lee/", "name": "Comforted Quotes by Tosca Lee", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/comforted/tosca-lee/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c35/tosca-lee-19133_comforted_i-slept-in-the-grip-of-that-love-comfort_2887664.jpg" }, "description": "1 Comforted quotes by Tosca Lee. 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