Quotes About Support

But I will not stand in front of your happiness. I will not even stand in front of misery that you choose for yourself.

Perhaps you could just allow yourself to be rescued," Cardan says. "For once.

I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.

If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then surely you should be friend to my friend.

Let me look out for you. Let your enemies become mine.

Tana would sit near the door to the basement with fingers in her ears, tears and snot running down her face as she cried and cried and cried. And little Pearl would toddle up, crying, too. They cried while they ate their cereal, cried while they watched cartoons, and cried themselves to sleep at night, huddled together in Tana's little bed. 'Make her stop' Pearl said, but Tana couldn't.

Ben was taking her through the storm of grief. He was singing her through the rage and despair. He was singing her through the terrible loneliness, because there was no way to shut off grief, no way to cast it aside or fight against it. The only way to end grief was to go through it. As she realized that, his song began to change. It grew softer, sweeter, like the morning after a long cry, when your head still hurt but your heart was no longer broken.

Happiness isn't something to carefully measure out in spoonfuls as though it's medicine. I don't need you to suffer to prove your love, and I definitely don't need you to hide your suffering. I want to shoulder half our burden.

I guess it's true; no one will ever love you like your family.

I say, because if she doesn't want to talk about that part, she doesn't have to.

Val and Ruth had been friends forever, for so long that Val was used to being the overshadowed one, the "normal" one, the one who set up the witty one-liners, not the one who delivered them. She liked that role; it made her feel safe. Robin to Ruth's Batman. Chewbaca to her Han Solo.

I will lie down,¨ he says, letting me guide him toward his enormous bed. Once there, he does not let go of my hand. ¨Ïf you lie with me.¨ Page 308

We sat together on the couch, watching the cartoon skater fail to land jumps and fall in helpless, and probably unrequited love, with his coach. (They're watching Yuri on Ice!!)

If I fall, you must promise not to laugh. I may still be a little bit poisoned.' ... I wonder exactly how much a little bit means. 'Maybe I should be the one to go first.' 'Nonsense,' he says. 'If you weren't behind me, then who would break my fall?

Maybe the point of real friendship isn't that you have to repay kindness, but whatever. At least I should try. As

Cardan's fingers dig into my back. He's trembling, and whether it is from ebbing magic or horror, I am not sure. But he holds me as though I am the only solid thing in the world.

I'll help you protect her," Sam says. "If you want to."... "Okay. Is it really that obvious I'm into her?

He grips my shoulder. His fingers dig in the knotted muscles in a way that feels good. Brotherly.

But he holds me as though I am the only solid thing in the world.

I think of all the good things that come from someone knowing you well enough to understand your hopes and fears.

If it's hard for you to bear what you did, give me the weight.

And while I didn't think he was my friend, it didn't mean I couldn't be his.

I wonder what it would be like, to never have to be alone.

Relying only on yourself is a good way to get got. Next time, take a member of the royal guard. Take one of us. Take a cloud of sprites or a drunken spriggan. Just take someone.' 'Watching my back is the perfect opportunity to stick a knife in it,' I remind him.