Quotes About Support

How amazing it is that friendships can become so full that you can't imagine what your life was like before them.

Told her she was beautiful. Didn't give up when she didn't believe me.

A guy can do far far worse than surrounding himself with people who restore his faith in humanity.

gothblood4567: 'sup? finalwill: i'm working. gothblood4567 on what? finalwill: my suicide note. i can't figure out how to end it. gothblood4567: lol

and when he catches me off guard and says 'i love you' i catch him off guard and say 'i need your help.

I text tiny a minute later. MADE NEW GAY FRIEND. And he texts back PROGRESS!!!

Death is hard, and facing death is painful. But even more painful is the feeling that no one cares. To not have a friend in the world. Some of us died surrounded by loved ones. Some of us had loved ones who couldn't make it in time, who were too far away or just off getting some sleep. But there are also those us us who can tell you what it's like to have no one who you love, no one who loves you. It is very hard to stay alive just for your own sake.

i think of friendship in terms of love...

We know what it's like to need to hold on. We hold on to you. Which is to say, we hold on to life.

This, I think, is how people survive: Even when horrible things have been done to us, we can still find gratitude in one another.

The running commentary, the loving support, the jokes and the observations and the random thoughts that are made a little less random when they're shared. The desire to be heard is as deeply seeded as the desire to be loved.

We saw our friends die. But we also see our friends live. So many of them live, and we often toast their long and full lives. They carry us on.

It's Miranda who speaks up. You're gay, she says, with complete seriousness. And I love you.

I want to be here with her. I want to be the one who lives up to her hopes.

You are not alone.

bolster , v . I am very careful whenever I know you're on the phone with your father. I know you'll come to me eventually, and we'll talk you through it. But I have to wait — you need your time. In the meantime, I'm careful what songs I play. I try to speak to you with my selections.

I don't want to love her. I don't want to be in love. People take love's continuity for granted, just as they take their body's continuity for granted. They don't realize that the best thing about love is its regular presence. Once you can establish that, it's an added foundation to your life. But if you cannot have that regular presence, you only have the one foundation to support you, always.

It's the secret smile you get from knowing that, somewhere, there is someone who is yours. Not in the sense that you own her, or control her. She is yours because you say anything to her whenever you need to. And she can do the same, whenever she needs to. Most of the time this isn't necessary. But the secret smile comes from knowing it's available, even when she's half a world away.

Without you I wouldn't have been able to contain the hate. I would have used it against myself. You're the one who helped me control it. My mind spun out to other things. But it always came back to you.

Being a comfort is itself comforting. Having someone find a place on your shoulder and be able to rest.

By the time I got there, you'd already decided. And I quickly decided to let you decide. You were already seeing the rooms as ours, and that was enough for me.

Some of our parents were always on our side. Some of our parents chose to banish us rather than see us for who we were. And some of our parents, when they found out we were sick, stopped being dragons and became dragonslayers instead. Sometimes that's what it takes—the final battle. But it should take much, much less than that.

There is nothing more painful than watching someone give up on you.

We never figured out whether I need to be more reassuring or if he just needs reassurance too much. We both try to readjust our settings to make it okay