“Easy comfort isn't comforting”

“You couldn't be more wrong," I said. "You are buying into the cross-stitched sentiments of your parents' throw pillows. You're arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. But that's a lie, and you know it.""You're a hard person to comfort," Augustus said."Easy comfort isn't comforting," I said.”

“Humans are designed to seek comfort and order, and so if they have comfort and order, they tend to plant themselves, even if their comfort isn't all that comfortable. And even if they secretly want for something better.”

“It is not comfortable or easy to sit in a principal's office, waiting for a verdict.”

“But the goal of the arts, culinary or otherwise, is not to increase our comfort. That is the goal of an easy chair.”

“There was something very comforting about him, and I was not sure if it was his easy manner or his complete immunity to my scowling.”