Quotes About Support

The world needs lovers who fit, or how would we go on? To be only one of one for a life? That's a lonely life.

Was he supposed to let Fiona cry on his shoulder now? He hated being the shoulder. He never knew what to say or do. Pat, pat, there, there. What the f--k?

Ti ho amata per più di dodici anni, Cassandra. Ti amavo quando eri la moglie di un altro e quando hai partorito i suoi figli. Ti amavo quando non potevo fare niente per aiutarti a uscire dall'inferno in cui vivevi. E ti amo ancora adesso

To my mind, reaching out, reaching for one another doesn't make what happened to those girls less of a tragedy, or make anyone less heartsick for them and their families. But point taken.You don't want me to listen.You don't want me to hold your hand. So that makes the need to do those things about me, not you.

It wasn't the paramedics or the surgical team that saved my life. It was Ray and Stella Quinn.

Friendship's the bread of life, isn't it now?

He'd always believed in her. They'd believed in each other. He'd been her rock, in a very real way. The rock that had given her a solid base to build on after a childhood of upheaval and discontent. Then

No matter how bad things are, and sometimes they were bad in our house, you want your mother to be there, to love you. And when she doesn't, you feel . . . less.

good things happened when you took steps, when you worked for them—and when you were lucky enough to find people who'd give you a chance to do your best.

I don't know if it helps, but I know when we lost Dad, we were all just numb, I guess. Just taking a step at a time dealing with all the horrible, practical things you have to deal with. Eventually you find yourself in another place. Some of it's familiar, some of it's not. You make something else out of it, and you know you couldn't have without the person you lost.

He meant what he'd said about taking her home. His home. When she didn't argue the point, he figured she was more shaken than she'd admitted.

give her a ride.

You'd understand, better than anyone, what it's like to lose a father when you need one so badly.

She's a generous mother who offers all we need, and she's a child who needs our tending and care.

It is easy to be brave when you have a child depending on you.

which Gwen raised her children

but people like the Mercers, like Kurt Rove, belittle and bad-talk those of us who, well, have something that might help get all of us through.

Ben, schizophrenia alone disables more people for a longer time than cancer. Hundreds of thousands of people are confined to hospitals. We can't turn our backs on them or burn them as witches because of a chemical imbalance in the brain." He

You took care of our girl.

I accept that my father couldn't be there for prom night or high school graduation. I love him, even though the times—a lot of times I really needed it—he couldn't say, 'I'm here.

I'm the one who has to watch you worry and struggle. Do you know what that does to me?

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have read my mind." As she moved to the coffeepot, Glenna gave Blair's arm an absent stroke. "Give you a hand?" "No, I got this. You've been taking the lion's

I blurted it out, like a big announcement. 'I'm gay!'" She laughed a little, stroked Marco's cheek. "What did he say?" "He said he hoped one day, when I was grown and ready, I'd find a man worthy of me, and not to settle for less. 'Be true to yourself, Marco,' he said, 'and anyone who tries to make your truth a lie or shameful isn't worth a single one of your thoughts.