Quotes About Support

I'll go where you go." A simple statement that feels like a blanket.

There are like twenty people in that waiting room right now. Some of them are related to you. Some of them are not. But we're all your family.' "She stops now. Leans over me so that the wisps of her hair tickle my face. She kisses me on the forehead. 'You still have a family,' she whispers.

Life can be hard and beautiful and messy, but hopefully, it will be long. If it is, you will see that it's unpredictable, and that the dark periods comes, but they abate -- sometimes with a lot of support -- and the tunnel widens, allowing the sun back in. If you're in the dark, it might feel like you will always be there. Fumbling. Alone. But you won't -- and you're not.

She stops now. Leans over me so that the wisps of her hair tickle my face. She kisses me on the forehead. 'You still have a family,' she whispers.

There's something comforting in that. To go down as a family. No one left behind.

To be the holder of other people's loss is to be the keeper of their love. To share your loss with people is another way of giving your love.

Ojalá pudiera abrazarla y darle las gracias por adelantarse siempre a lo que necesito.

I only need a second. So I can show her that I'm here. That someone's still here.

Todo esto te lo digo por algo. Hay veinte personas en la sala de espera ahora mismo. Algunas están emparentadas contigo. Otras no. Pero ten por seguro que todas somos tu familia. Aún tienes una familia.

Your presence can be soothing so long as what you say is soothing

C'mon, Mee,' Henry said. 'You're among family.' 'Totally,' Kim said.

You need people who will give you the food from their plate because they feel your hunger, who will refuse to let you wander off alone no matter how many times you say it's all good.

Just as, she now understands, Nathaniel's loss has somehow merged with her own. It sounds like a burden, to take this on, but really, it's the opposite. To be the holder of other people's loss is to be the keeper of their love. To share your loss with people is another way of giving your love.

You still have a family," she whispers.

Look I accept Adam because you love him. And I assume he accepts me because you love me...your love binds us.'...The funny thing was, I never really bought into Kim's notion that they were somehow bound together through me- until just now when I saw her half carrying him down the hospital corridor.

Because the hard part of falling down is not the falling down, or the getting back up. It's seeing what happens to the people you fall on. You get bruised; they get flattened.

When I open the door in front of the bus station, he says, "Take care, Cody," in a quiet voice. ...As much as I want to put miles between me and Ben McCallister, now that I'm doing just that, I understand what a relief it's been to share this weight with someone. "Yeah. You too," I tell him. "Have a good life." It's not what I meant to say. It sounds too flippant. But maybe it's the most you can hope for someone.

What about my parents?" "What about your parents?" "I can't let them down." "Even if it means letting yourself down? Which I doubt they'd want for you.

cloying your-best-friend's-dead sympathy that will drive

But in my family, playing music was still more important than the type of music you played, so when after a few months it became clear that my love for the cello was no passing crush, my parents rented me one so I could practice at home. Rusty scales and triads

Next time I get sick, you can tell that to me. You can be my girl in the mountains." "Okay", I say."I'll be your mountain girl and take care of you.

What about your mom?" "She offered to take me to Planned Parenthood to get the Pill and told me to make Adam get tested for various diseases. In the meantime, she ordered me to buy condoms now. She even gave me ten bucks to start my supply.

There are like twenty people in that waiting room right now. Some of them are related to you. Some of them are not. But we're all your family.

Adam has about a foot and fifty pounds on Kim, but after stumbling for a second, she adjusts to the added burden. She bears it.