Quotes About Support

We are all so close. We are godfather to each others' kids. I was the best man at Jesus' wedding.

I can see that you're down in the dumps, Unc. Shall we stop working and call Toni?" "And then what?" "I don't know. But if it so happens that I'm more of your type . . . Would you like me to give you a blow job? That really does the trick when you're feeling depressed.

I like every single actor or actress in the world, because we never know what the conditions are like when they are working. I give everyone the benefit of the doubt and root for them like a psychotic sports fan.

Mother Theresa once said that what hurt people more than poverty or illness was feeling that they weren't needed.

takes away the loneliness. When I'm with her I'm not lonely.

Sometimes women's "support" lacked understanding—or variety.

It is painful to see someone suffering what you must be suffering- watching someone you love be so cruelly hurt.

The advantage of a head, or mind or brain, is that it will be a resource and support to you in life,' Lydia said crisply, 'while the heart is liable chiefly to cause you pain

There is no beautifier like sympathy

Amy bit her lip. "I was so scared, Dan. I couldn't think. She shook her head. "I feel so ashamed of myself. If it wasn't for you, we would have been toast." "Whoa," Dan said. "If you're throwing a pity party for yourself, don't invite me." He poked her. "You were the one who got Jonah to find us. Awesome lung power. I thought you only used that volume to get me out of the bathroom.

When we are together, there is nothing we cannot achieve', which is something Michael used to say.

When a father loved his daughter, his arms were always open, always strong, always ready for her.

it occurred to him that having a newborn ought to qualify a person as handicapped. He

Judith Arnold

He didn't know what I meant. Intellectually he did, I think. But not in the way we understand it." "Lucky him." "He just listened. He was sympathetic and nonjudgmental." "That's good." "Is it? If someone you care about tells you they are constantly thinking of ending it all, shouldn't you be unsympathetic and very judgmental?

She looked so disappointed, so grieved and desperate that Clem longed to comfort her, only he couldn't think of thing to say that she hadn't heard a hundred times from Dad and Dr. Snow and Mrs. Mack: how things would get better in time, though no one knew how much time, and that life might be a little better for her and Jess once school began again.

What I respect about you and what I need from you.

He knew me so well. He was the only one who could make me feel as if the world were right again, and I was loved and cherished and known and he would never, ever leave...even at a distance, he could read me. He could find that vulnerable spot and say the right words, do the right things, that brought me back time after time.

First. I give a damn. About everything you do

The spirit lived on in the hearts of those left behind. She felt that her brother's spirit would be with her, working beside her.

To hold traumatic reality in consciousness requires a social context that affirms and protects the victim and that joins the victim and witness in a common alliance. For the individual victim, this social context is created by relationships with friends, lovers, and family. For the larger society, the social context is created by political movements that give voice to the disempowered.

The fundamental stages of recovery are establishing safety, reconstructing the trauma story, and restoring the connection between survivors and their community

In the face of common prejudices that blame survivors for whatever happened to them, they want assurances from the community that they did not deserve to be abused.

the suffering of traumatized people is a matter not only of individual psychology but also, always, of social justice.