Quote by Ella Fields

“Can you feel the ties that bind us? Can you feel them tightening? Because I can, they're so tight that I can scarcely breathe.”

— Nenia Campbell

“Sometimes things acquire a tenderness, a monstrous tenderness we don’t expect from them.”

— Herta Müller

“Comforting others can be tricky. It can get real sticky, if we think we are the comforter. There really is only one comforter.”

— Art Hochberg

“When I sew you up... Don't let me, Stop bleeding, Tiny stitches that you placed into my skin, Won't let me go, And they're…

— Pierce the veil

“This did not comfort me.”

— Cath Crowley

“I could feel the threads forming, from my heart to his. Threads that would become strings, until I was all wrapped up in him…

— Cindi Madsen

“It was like a tight knot inside me was gradually loosening, a knot I’d never even realized, until then, was there.”

— Haruki Murakami

“...there is something about understanding that comforts me, even if I don't like what I understand.”

— Wendy Walker

“I feel like a constellation of wounds, held together with string and stubbornness.”

— Holly Black

“Sometimes I feel like we're a knot, too tangled to be taken apart." I nodded. "It's true. So much of me is tied up…

— Kiera Cass

“For every thing you find that's of comfort...there are two with the power to hurt.”

— Stephen King

“maybe there’s a Comforter who holds us gently in our brokenness . . . which is very different from a comfort zone that’s a…

— Ann Voskamp