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• As we passed over the dark bridge her wan face fell lazily against my coat's shoulder and the formidable stroke of thirty died away with the reassuring pressure of her hand.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Dark, Hands, Bridges

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “(The Great Gatsby)”, p.80, F. Scott Fitzgerald

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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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• Saying someone is religious is heard in most of America as a compliment, a reassuring affirmation that someone will be moral, ethical, and after a few glasses of wine, a freak in the bedroom.

  Bill Maher

  Religious, Wine, Glasses

  Bill Maher (2003). “When You Ride Alone You Ride with Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism”, New Millenium

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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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• Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you and know, absolutely know, that the sound in the dark is a monster, and it really is as bad as you think. Did that sound hopeless? It didn't feel hopeless. It felt reassuring. It felt - real.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Real, Dark, Thinking

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2008). “Blood Noir: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.324, Penguin

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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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• 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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• Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem.

  Thomas Sowell

  People, President, Might

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.98, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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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• I can honestly say I've never sold any arms to a repressive foreign regime while reassuring everyone at home that the weapons will be used for nice things.

  Jo Brand

  Nice, Home, Arms

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

  Louise Rennison

  Laughter, Way, Rosie

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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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• 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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• She wasn't mine. She hadn't been mine for a long time. She shouldn't be here and I shouldn't have asked. So instead of reassuring her, I kept leaning agains the tree looking like the devil and hoping she turned and ran. ~ The Vincent Boys

  Abbi Glines

  Boys, Long, Tree

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• There is nothing that is quite so reassuring in an awkward situation as knowing that one is well turned-out, and while I hope I am not so fainthearted as to require such stratagems, I am not so foolish as to overlook their value.

  Patricia C. Wrede

  Knowing, Awkward, Foolish

  Patricia C. Wrede, Caroline Stevermer (2014). “The Cecelia and Kate Novels: Sorcery & Cecelia, The Grand Tour, and The Mislaid Magician”, p.278, Open Road Media

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• You're a mad scientist,' said Maggie, in what may well have been intended as a reassuring tone. 'We don't expect you to be nice. We just go to bed every night hoping you won't mutate us before we wake up.' Dr. Abbey blinked at her. 'That's...almost sweet. In a disturbing sort of a way.

  Mira Grant

  Sweet, Nice, Night

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• I felt Holmes's hand steal into mine and give me a reassuring shake. - Watson

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Hands, Giving, Stealing

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• She led him past the engine room, which looked like a very dangerous, mechanized jungle gym, with pipes and pistons and tubes jutting from a central bronze sphere. Cables resembling giant metal noodles snaked across the floor and ran up the walls. “How does that thing even work?” Percy asked. “No idea,” Annabeth said. “And I’m the only one besides Leo who can operate it.” “That’s reassuring.” “It should be fine. It’s only threatened to blow up once.” “You’re kidding, I hope.” She smiled. “Come on.

  Rick Riordan

  Wall, Blow, Past

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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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