Quotes About Support

Your characters have arms and legs and faces. Use them. Use attribution. Control the delivery of dialogue. Support it with actions, or negate it with actions.

T]he only way a person had to process an experience so troubling was by sharing it.

Ghoulie or ghosty or long-legged beastie, I just want my hand held.

Friendship is what really resolves and mitigates loneliness while not compromising the self in the way that love does, romantic love does.

Io ho bisogno che qualcuno abbia bisogno di me, ecco cosa. Ho bisogno di qualcuno per cui essere indispensabile. Di una persona che si divori tutto il mio tempo libero, il mio ego, la mia attenzione. Qualcuno che dipenda da me. Una dipendenza reciproca.

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

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

Por eso yo apreciaba tanto los grupos de apoyo, porque la gente, cuando cree que te estás muriendo, te presta toda su atención.

I am going to do what every wife must do now and again, she says. I am going to go rescue my husband.

Everything else is coming apart, but we are going to do the opposite. We are going to come together.

God, he knew, helped those who helped themselves. But wasn't God also there to catch you if you fell?

Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship.

How can life be worth living, to use the words of Ennius, which lacks that repose which is to be found in the mutual good-will of a friend? What can be more delightful than to have some one to whom you can say everything with the same absolute confidence as to yourself? Is not prosperity robbed of half its value if you have no one to share your joy? On the other hand, misfortunes would be hard to bear if there were not some one to feel them even more acutely than yourself.

What are sisters for if not to point out the things the rest of the world is too polite to mention.

What do I want? What kind of question is that? I want what everybody wants. I want someone who has my back. I want someone's name to put in the space after in an emergecy please call. I want someone who will drink the other half of the bottle of wine so I don't. And someone to make it worth sitting down at an actual table to eat. I want someone who's dying to get home after a long day because I'm going to be there.

The world would be a better place if everyone just helped one another out when they needed it, in my opinion.

He said that's what family is for: the people who love you see you in the best light, as you want to be seen.

It is not 'strength' to try to take everything upon oneself.

Nobody can know ... just how heavy a burden trying to protect another human being can be. I was still a child. I couldn't have understood the real meaning of my promise.

After the way you accepted the mission, I know I can't convince you otherwise. So, instead ... come back alive. We'll be here ... waiting for you to come back.

People worry—it's just part of caring.

Mom actually said that? Cassie's face shown with happiness. She always hated my math! Nah, Martin said. She was just being that way for you. She thought it was what you needed to hear. If parents told us what they really think about stuff, we could figure them out like regular people.

Billy would recall years later that the thing wrong with his first foster home, and with every foster home, was that he was never sat down and told why and for how long.

You'll never be alone again, he promised. I'll never leave you. -Jack to Anne