Quotes About Support

Tom and Ben were silent, tall pillars on either side of the poets and the Prince.

Rest," she said. "I've got you.

Just because I don't care for the prowl myself doesn't mean I can't be a pretty good wingperson.

We used to call ourselves Team Zed. It sort of fell out of use after we had built up a decan of better reasons to feel like a family, but it still gets a wink and a grin every once in a while.

He's warm and solid, present as an oak tree as he sighs and leans against me.

While thou art looking out for the halt and the stupid, Lord, let me put in a word for a crippled bird as well.

Anything that Jack and Abby Irene could not manage together might just as likely be too much for Sebastien.

I had a giant bug to help me. (In all honesty I was probably the sidekick in this equation. But it makes me feel better to pretend otherwise.)

Vincent stood, all lithe grace, and let his hand rest warmly on Michelangelo's shoulder.

Some things you want to make sure your teammates have access to if anything bad should happen to you.

Her hand on his arm was like a mooring rope, a promise of harbor.

There is incredible value in being of service to others. I think if most of the people in therapy offices were dragged out to put their finger in a dike, take up their place in a working line, they would be relieved of terrible burdens.

You are always in my thoughts. When you were little, I knew your whereabouts at any given moment. Now that you are...off on your own, I still always know where you are, because I keep you in my heart.

Having gone through so many of the personal things I've gone through, its about creating an (online) space for girls to be heard. I don't profess to have all the answers. But Ask Elizabeth is a space where girls are not alone.

Ask Elizabeth is a community of voices, it's not me standing on a podium telling people how to run their lives, it's girls helping each other sharing their wisdom and advice and I create a space for them to do it.

If they should only be ill,' she said, 'there would be so many little things we could do for them. It does seem in a kind of a way an opportunity. I often think it is only when a man is ill that he understands what a woman means in his life.

But a man must live. Not for nothing do we invest so much of ourselves in other people's lives—or even in momentary pictures of people we do not know. It cuts both ways: the happy group inside the lighted window, the figure in long grass in the orchard seen from the train stay and support us in our dark hours. Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.

Sometimes there is naught you can do for a man, save stand quietly beside him and believe. (Advice to Felicity Langley from her Nanny Rana)

Friends are the balm that soothes the heart. – Nanny Tasha (former nanny to Felicity and Tally Langley)

Everything is all right, When you're here, When you're right next to me, When my hand is in yours, Don't leave me, Don't leave me empty handed.

Life is terribly awkward and uncomfortable, so we spend our time searching for those who make it all a little less unpleasant.

She cried and he held her and he cried too. He didn't think that either could say what they were crying about, but it was something they needed to do, right now, together, and then, quite suddenly, they were laughing, hard, brash laughter that came up from someplace deep.

Her mother had told her that when she was a girl. Whenever you're in trouble, just remember you're your own best friend.

So it ever must be in the conflicting scenes of life, in the long, weary march, each one walks alone. We may have many friends, love, kindness, sympathy and charity, to smooth our pathway in everyday life, but in the tragedies and triumphs of human experience, each mortal stands alone.