Quotes About Support

Understanding the suffering is beyond me. Understanding the healing is, too. But in this moment, I am here. Use me.

On the deepest level, I know my body is on my side.

Girls may try to avoid being alone at all costs, including remaining in an abusive friendship.

Adolescents, especially girls, are most resilient when they are connected to others.

Silence made space for other people's words, which was important for those who needed to be listened to.

So you never know when you can get through. p 179 Jack the Bus Driver talking about helping a woman on the bus who was an alcoholic

I realize, as the tightness yields in my shoulders and hips and feet, that Beth might well have wanted me to meet her drivers because I needed them, too." p 167

But we are starting again, Jem. If I hadn't met you, it probably would have been dope and pills and smoking crack and shooting up junk. Prison. Hospitalization. That's how it would have been for me, but you saved me from that. It's going to be different for us now."

Allí de rodillas lo abracé, le acaricié la espalda y el pelo y ambos lloramos juntos. No había palabras para expresar lo que sentíamos; las lágrimas lo decían por nosotros: el terror, el alivio, el amor y la pena todo mezclado en la sal.

Surround yourself with people that reflect who you want to be and how you want to feel, energies are contagious.

a woman with young children is not a woman but a mammal, salve, croon, water carrier

No one is useless who can pray, my sister.

I cannot protect you, Mary, the world has deprived me of my right to protect; I am utterly helpless, I can only love you.

We are each of us angels with one wing. And we can only fly embracing each other." —Luciano de Crescenzo

He wasn't an introvert, as he loved his family and his few close friends like Ben Kilpatrick,

Well, call me as soon as you can and tell me what's going on. Do you need me to come down there?" Sure, like she needed to stick a couple dozen earring hooks in her eyeballs.

Like anything hard in life. You breathe through it for one minute at a time. That becomes ten minutes, then twenty, then an hour. And before you know it, you've made it through another day, then a week, then a month. And if you're lucky, very lucky, you have someone there to hold your hand and help you through.

What could possibly be more attractive to a woman than a strong man who believed in her?

he didn't have to carry his pain alone, that the entire town wanted to help. This was a beautiful, comfortable, warm place for him to heal—for Wes to see that life could once more be filled with grace, with beauty. With love.

He looked around at the chaos of the jacked-up children and then back at his nervous daughter. "I believe I'll stay, if you don't mind." What if she did mind? What if the idea of him watching her for the next two hours made her more nervous than a turkey at Thanksgiving?

don't know how to navigate this," she whispered. "Like anything hard in life. You breathe through it for one minute at a time. That becomes ten minutes, then twenty, then an hour. And before you know it, you've made it through another day, then a week, then a month. And if you're lucky, very lucky, you have someone there to hold your hand and help you through.

Everyone had weaknesses, wobbly parts that weren't as strong as they would like. Maybe a good relationship meant finding someone willing to step up and help give support when needed. And, maybe more importantly, being willing to ask.

We also need to think all year long about people around us who might need something happy in their world.

The moment I heard your store had been robbed and that the little shits had left such a mess behind, I knew I would be spending the afternoon helping you clean it up." "I