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• There is something reassuring about the toilets. Bodily functions at least remain democratic. Everybody shits.

  Margaret Atwood

  Toilets, Bodily Functions, Democratic

  "The Handmaid's Tale". Book by Margaret Atwood, 1985.

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• I often recall these words when I am writing, and I think to myself, “It’s true. There aren’t any new words. Our job is to give new meanings and special overtones to absolutely ordinary words.” I find the thought reassuring. It means that vast, unknown stretches still lie before us, fertile territories just waiting for us to cultivate them.

  Haruki Murakami

  Jobs, Lying, Writing

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• I'm always feeling like I'm lacking wisdom. This reassurance that one can ask God for that and it will happen is certainly reassuring to me.

  Francis Collins

  Feelings, Reassurance, Lacking

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• The world's central banks and the International Monetary Fund still have vaults full of bullion, even though currencies are no longer backed by gold. Governments hold on to it as a kind of magic symbol, a way of reassuring people that their money is real.

  James Surowiecki

  Real, Government, People

  "Why Gold?". www.newyorker.com. November 29, 2004.

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• I did grieve a bit when I wasn't having the chemo anymore. I was used to sitting in the little chair and then the nurse would come and do it. It was like that was your job for that long and it was reassuring.

  Jennifer Saunders

  Jobs, Grieving, Nurse

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Doing 'Young Adult' was really reassuring to me in a lot of ways. It confirmed a lot of suspicions I had about great actors.

  Patton Oswalt

  Adults, Actors, Way

  Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. March 19, 2013.

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• They know you're not Alfred Hitchcock, but you need to be enough Alfred Hitchcock for them not to be bothered by it. That's a reassuring thing.

  Toby Jones

  Needs, Enough, Bothered

  "Toby Jones Talks the ‘Twisted Love Story’ of ‘The Girl’ and Finding Hitchcock Under Four Hours of Prosthetics". Interview with Alison Willmore, www.indiewire.com. October 19, 2012.

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• I'm waiting for the day when my children cease to find my domestic propriety reassuring and actually find it annoying.

  Rachel Cusk

  Children, Waiting, Annoying

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• A REASSURING ANNOUNCEMENT Please, be calm, despite that previous threat. I am all bluster - I am not violent. I am not malicious. I am a result.

  Markus Zusak

  Calm, Violent, Results

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.6, RH Childrens Books

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• With wine and food, the confidence of my own table, and the necessity of reassuring my wife, I grew by insensible degrees courageous and secure.

  H. G. Wells

  Wine, Wife, Degrees

  H. G. Wells “The Works of Wells”, Lulu.com

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• Waking up begins with saying am and now. That which has awoken then lies for a while staring up at the ceiling and down into itself until it has recognized I, and therefrom deduced I am, I am now. Here comes next, and is at least negatively reassuring; because here, this morning, is where it has expected to find itself: what’s called at home.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Morning, Lying, Home

  Christopher Isherwood (2013). “A Single Man: A Novel”, p.5, Macmillan

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• Round and round the questions flew, until finally I found myself standing at the open door of a bookshop. It’s natural in times of great perplexity, I think, to seek out the familiar, and the high shelves and long rows of neatly lined-up spines were immensely reassuring. Amid the smell of ink and binding, the dusty motes in beams of strained sunlight, the embrace of warm, tranquil air, I felt that I could breathe more easily.

  Kate Morton

  Thinking, Smell, Air

  Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• But I am I now; and so many other millions are so irretrievably their own special variety of 'I' that I can hardly bear to think of it. I: how firm a letter; how reassuring the three strokes: one vertical, proud and assertive, and then the two short horizontal lines in quick, smug succession. The pen scratching on the paper…I…I…I…I…I…I.

  Sylvia Plath

  Thinking, Two, Special

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.34, Anchor

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• We are one of those couples i used to watch, thinking to myself that I'd never be on the inside of something so special. I remember reassuring myself that it probably looked nicer than it actually was, I am happy to be wrong about that.

  Emily Giffin

  Couple, Thinking, Special

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Something Borrowed: A Novel”, p.307, Macmillan

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• Rosie laughed in a not too reassuring way if you like sane laughter.

  Louise Rennison

  Laughter, Way, Rosie

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• Seth moved behind me, his presence steady and reassuring. Waiting to catch me, even though I refused to fall just yet.

  Richelle Mead

  Fall, Waiting, Catch Me

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Succubus On Top”, p.119, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• I imagine the ones we’ve lost as ghosts who prowl about the edges of the light, waiting for us to join them. Sometimes that’s terrifying, and sometimes it’s reassuring, a promise of homecoming.

  Ann Aguirre

  Light, Waiting, Promise

  Ann Aguirre (2011). “Aftermath”, p.23, Penguin

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• Not reassuring when weathermen say 'Today will be terrible but don't worry it won't be as terrible as tomorrow or Friday.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Friday, Worry, Today

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• Maybe" she said. "I just wish we'd have a little mishap.It would be reassuring

  Sarah Dessen

  Wish, Would Be, Littles

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• Peeta looks me right in the eye and gives my hand what I think is meant to be a reassuring squeeze. Maybe it's just a nervous spasm.

  Suzanne Collins

  Eye, Thinking, Hands

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.46, Scholastic Inc.

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• When I look out at the audience at some of our shows, I think we are reaching a younger audience... I see lots of people in their 30s and 40s, but I also see a lot of people in their young and middle teens, and thats definitely reassuring.

  Alex Lifeson

  Thinking, People, Looks

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• Disgust is so reassuring; it feels like a moral proof.

  Jed Rubenfeld

  Moral, Proof, Disgusting

  "The Interpretation of Murder: A Novel". Book by Jed Rubenfeld, May 15, 2007.

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• ...we were back at home, and I had returned to that reassuring but profoundly unsatisfactory state known as 'being in one's right mind.

  Aldous Huxley

  Home, Mind, States

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• He had hard, steady eyes, and all the comforting, reassuring charm of a dental drill. - Harry Dresden describing Morgan

  Jim Butcher

  Eye, Comforting, Dental

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• The fragility of love is what is most at stake here—humanity's most crucial three-word avowal is often uttered only to find itself suddenly embarrassing or orphaned or isolated or ill-timed—but strangely enough it can work better as a literal or reassuring statement than a transcendent or numinous or ecstatic one.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Love Is, Humanity, Three

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.306, Atlantic Books Ltd

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