Quotes About Support

As of the writing of this particular book, I have 43 "close friends,"* 196 "good friends,"** and 2,200 "affable acquaintances."*** *These are people I would phone immediately if I was diagnosed with lung cancer. ** These are people whose death from lung cancer would make me profoundly sad. *** These are people I would generally hope would recover from lung cancer.

I just want one person I can rescue and I want one person who needs me. Who can't live without me. I want to be a hero, but not just one time.

You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel strong. You save people by letting them save you.

Maybe this is why Misty loved him. Loved you. Because you believed in her so much more than she did. You expected more from her than she did from herself.

When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people.

Suicide is very contagious.

Her mom and dad are both doctors and want her to follow her dream, not turn out the way they have, no matter how much it costs them.

Just some­thing to need you home at night. Some­thing to keep you from liv­ing alone.

Pretty much nobody is getting their emotional needs met.

The people who really, actually loved us, they'd beg us to go. To fulfill our dreams. Practice our craft. And they would love us when we all came back.

As a mother, you're the world almanac and the encyclopedia and the dictionary and the Bible, all rolled up together.

And it's funny how when somebody saves you, the first thing you want to do is save other people.

Sui­cide is very con­ta­gious.

your folks are like God because you want to know they're out there and you want them to approve of your life, still you only call them when you're in crisis and need something.

We're all mis­er­able to­geth­er.

Good news didn't seem real until you'd told at least a dozen friends.

People are all looking for that, a hand to hold. Reassurance. The promise that everything will be all right.

And, it's funny how when somebody saves you, the first thing you want to do is save other people. All other people. Everyone.

it's nice to have one person who knows all your secrets

La gente, cuando cree que te estás muriendo, te presta toda su atención.

I love knowing a lot of people, but the downside is that means going to a lot of funerals.

THIS IS WHY I loved the support groups so much, if people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention.

To make a career of rescuing people is also to create a permanent class in need of rescue.

When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people.