Quotes About Support

that. "I know the feeling. I think it's part of being a parent. Sometimes you just want to go hide under a rock somewhere, but you have to stay strong for your kids, to keep their world upright.

I'm just in therapy to help me figure out how to cope with you!

My brother prefers to let other people put me on the straight and narrow." Evelyn felt a stab of pity for him suddenly, for he appeared without support of any kind, and she had heard some rumors about his home, Wentworth Castle, being a rather dark and dismal place. But then she reminded herself that he had brought all this on himself. He made his own decisions to misbehave. "Maybe you need to put yourself there," she told him flatly.

Our preteens need for us to remain emotionally connected and stable, because they're so unstable during this period. They need to know that we may not love their behavior but that, despite the fact that they're uncomfortable during their metamorphosis, we aren't going anywhere, and we will continue to love them, confident that, in due time, they will get through this.

He would ask nothing else from life if he would be allowed to protect and cherish her for the rest of his.

I want to tell them, "Chip, Kim, there is no way to suicide-proof a person.

This is my fault. Mine. Making her think I'd be here for her.

Is that all I am? A friend?" "Of course not," I say. "I love you." "Am I the only one?" she asks. "Yes. Completely." First, last, and always.

I'm all she's got and if I don't make it this time . . ." You'll pass through the light. A ribbon of guilt twists my stomach. I'm all Kim and Chip have too. But the difference is, they'll be better off without me.

If we'd found each other, though, the tormented, the weak and powerless, we couldn't bound together. What made me weak was the sense that I was alone. But maybe I wasn't alone. All the people on Through-the-Light, where were they? Living in dark space, the gray place. If we could've found each other sooner, would it have changed the outcome?

Suicide is not the answer.'' They don't know the question.

Yang terburuk adalah bangun di rumah sakit. Orangtuamu di sana menangis. Atau ibumu meneriaki para dokter dan perawat. Kau kembali dengan hancur. Kau merusak hari setiap orang.

Kita semua juga menjadi lebih baik, kau tahu. Aku menyembuhkanmu. Kau menyembuhkanku.

I start to see that I surround myself with broken people; more broken than me. Ah, yes, let me count your cracks. Let's see, one hundred, two... yes, you'll do nicely. A cracked companion makes me look more whole, gives me something outside myself to care for. When I'm with whole, healed people I feel my own cracks, the shatters, the insanities of dislocation in myself.

I didn't have a boyfriend. I had someone to watch horror movies with while my best friend was too sick with cancer.

You come into this world alone and die alone, but there's a really long stretch in the middle that can be extraordinarily meaningful and even fun with the right people. And when it's not fun, they'll be with you, too.

Friendship might be free, but it requires a real, solid investment. And you know, the occasional baked good never hurts

It's important to remember that people can go off the deep end; it doesn't mean they have to stay there. And when they come back, it's nice to have a friend waiting with a warm towel.

I do believe giving advice is a -- maybe at times misguided -- form of showing care, as much as we might chafe at it. If you look at where it's coming from, a loving place, and take it with a modicum of grace, you can allow your friends to care for you. And as my mother says, God willing, you'll live long enough to give them unwanted advice right back

He buried his face against her neck and held on to her healing compassion for just as long as she'd let him.

No man—or woman—left behind.

There is nothing wrong with you. God asks the most of those he loves best.

with her husband as she

friends talk her into this. Standing