Quotes About Support

I'll put it in a story." I don't know if that's what he wanted to ask me, but it's something everybody wants—for someone to see the hurt done to them and set it down like it matters.

Carry on, my sisters.

Well, that's the tackiest color I've ever seen, and we'll have half the town talking about us, but if it can lift May's heart like that, I guess she aught to live inside it.

My own largeness has been to bless yours.

Honeybees depend not only on physical contact with the colony, but also require its social companionship and support. Isolate a honeybee from her sisters and she will soon die. —The Queen Must Die: And Other Affairs of Bees and Men

She didn't say, Come on now, stop your crying, everything's going to be okay, which is the automatic thing people say when they want you to shut up. She said, "It hurts, I know it does. Let it out. Just let it out.

When she talks about her feelings, I have to consciously tell myself she wants me to receive them, not fix them.

I wanted to know what happened when two people felt it. Would it divide the hurt in two, make it lighter to bear, the way feeling someone's joy seemed to double it? Rosaleen

He heard the quake that lived at my center, and he didn't seek to silence it.

May this severing not cut us apart, but bind us together.

Only women hearing each other can create a counterworld to the prevailing reality.

There's no pain on earth that doesn't require a benevolent witness.

every pain in this world wants to be witnessed

Mothergod, I have nothing to hold me. No place to be, inside or out. I need to find a container of support, a space where my journey can unfold.

What both of you do is important," says Ann, holding my gaze, and I see she is moved by my outpouring. This telling of secret things.

He will deliver Jesus to the Romans," I whispered. Saying the words, I felt like I was falling off the edge of the world. During the time we'd been in Egypt, I'd stored away a thousand tears, and I let them loose now. Yaltha pulled my head to her shoulder and let me sob my fear, helplessness, and fury.

She bent and put her arms around me. "Sarah darling, you've fought harder than I imagined, but you must give yourself over to your duty and your fate and make whatever happiness you can."O

She has been the keeper of home for me, and I have been the keeper of journey for her. And now we look for the lost portion in each other.

The best gift she has given me is the constancy of her belief. Whatever I become, she loves me. To her, I am enough.

Being divided into groups and ranked in hierarchies—that was what they knew. An individual action was unthinkable. Group spirit dominated everything. Even when they were competing, they looked out for one another.

Ten, kdo ?asto vydává odmÄ›ny svým voják?m, je v tísni.

That's the function of big brothers... to help their little sisters when their worlds are collapsing.

General Grant is a great general," he said. "I know him well. He stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk; and now, sir, we stand by each other always.

She was battered incessantly, regularly, all the time. I'm not saying 24 hours a day, but the incidents of battering were extraordinarily high.