Leila Slimani Quotes

I constantly looked for motherly protection.

You need your mom and dad to protect you. It means they love you so much.

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

We're always grasping to feel safe. Ultimately, some people feel safe through love or family or community. Some people through exerting control.

Stay with me tonight. Let me hold you even if that's all it is. Let me keep you safe.

Don't be afraid. Don't be afraid of anything. Whatever you have been, you are mine now. I can hold you.

Don’t fuss. I love you just as you are, Mercy. I don’t need to swallow you whole, I don’t need to be in your head at all times. I just need to know that you’re there.

What we want most is to be held...and told..that everything (everything is a funny thing, is baby milk and papa's eyes, is roaring logs on a cold morning, is hoot owls and the boy who makes you cry after school, is mama's long hair, is being afraid and twisted faces on the bedroom wall)...is going to be alright.

Hold her for me. Hold her tight. Don't let her be lonely. Don't let her hurt. Please.

'Jamie' is what my mother gave me, and that takes the onus off of being big. Somebody thinks, 'Oh, Jamie - how threatening can he be?'

I care for you. I want to make life safer and better for you.

Come over here and sit on my knee and finish your orange juice.

Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.

I want someone who can trust that my big hands are going to take care of them.

Home is where you are appreciated, safe and protected, creative, and where you are loved - not where you are put in prison.

I was loved as a kid; I was raised with more love and emotional support than most folks could wish for... my memories aged nought to ten... are all bound up together in a mesh of innocence and fun.

Would not the child's heart break in despair when the first cold storm of the world sweeps over it, if the warm sunlight of love from the eyes of mother and father did not shine upon him like the soft reflection of divine light and love?

I love my parents in the way most children would: for having been there at every point in my youth and childhood, ready to pick me up when I fell and support me when I stumbled.

I don't have children, but we all want to protect whatever we love in life.

I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.

I don't want expensive gifts; I don't want to be bought. I have everything I want. I just want someone to be there for me, to make me feel safe and secure.

Nikolai stroked her cheek, then wrapped her in his embrace. “You’re safe,” he said tenderly beside her ear. “I’ve got you, and I’m going to keep you safe.

A house is a compressed territory where our basic needs can be fulfilled close by and safely.

Come hither, my dear. Come hither, that I mightest protectest thou!

She buried her face in his shoulder. And while the truth still scared her, being in his arms made her feel like the sea finding its shore, like a traveler returning after a long, hard, distant trip-- finally returning home.