Now I wondered why the offer of simple comfort felt like such a threat.
More, she could feel him reaching out to her for reassurance, even the simple comfort of knowing he didn't have to face this ordeal alone.
That experience taught me that simple comforts do not come simply.
Her life, he thought, the whole of it had been spent without the simple comfort of sunlight.
It is the kind of simple comfort you might crave at home, but it's better in good company.
Who denied her the simple comforts of biscuits and bath water.
But he would deny her the simple comfort of being a presence in the apartment, she reflected savagely.
There was a simple comfort in lying so close to another human being.
Even silently praying for simple comfort seemed too great a labor to dare.
Mercifully, no one is denied the simple comfort of being surrounded by cameras all the time.