Quotes About Support

You were the sun, and I wasn't even the moon. I loved being the supporting character, because I felt it was my way of supporting you. I asked for nothing in return and wanted so much.

We've all done this —created our mix-and-match families, our homemade safety nets.

And being best friends is always about the benefit of the doubt.

At least I'd learn the lesson that friends can make up for the failings of your family.

When we embrace, one of us is always holding the other a little tighter.

we are holiday-only lapsed Catholics who support homosexuality and a woman's right to choose.

How the things that hold us are only as strong as the faith we have in them-you go on the bridge because you trust it will not fall the fingers will clasp because we trust them to.

I said I hated life. You said you hated life. We decided to hate it together. We didn't know anything. 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.

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.

You're believing in love more than I do; you're standing up for someone who is less than deserving.

The whole point of love isn't to have fun times without hard times, to have someone who is fine with who you are and doesn't challenge you to be even better than that. The whole point of love isn't to be the other person's solution or answer or cure. The whole point of love is to help them find what they need, in any way you can. What we have - it's definitely not normal. But the whole point of love is to write your own version of normal, and that is exactly what we're going to do. -Rhiannon

Whenever you're in the worst place, there is always a better place. Your abuser will try to hide it from you, but other people can help you get there.

he was solid. he was there as i dissolved.

School is not like church. I know a lot of people in my school are happy about this, but I think that's because they've known the wrong kind of churches, the ones that hold back instead of lifting up.

It's one of the secrets of strength: We're so much more likely to find it in the service of others than we are to find it in ourselves.

no matter how hard it was to understand, she would be on my side. Fiercely. Unconditionally.

It's good to share a life—and it's good to share minutes and hours, too, Danny thinks. With a wife. With a husband. With a boyfriend, girlfriend, best friend. With a fling. With a brother.

well, LOVE and gay rights - three cheers for straight girls who max out on helping gay guys)

You're on your own … until you're not.

We are face to face with enormity again, but this time we are going to make it through. It is a moment we can get out of. Together.

He didn't want to say Let's just be friends or I hope we can stay friends, because that made friendship sound like a consolation prize, the blue ribbon to look at distractedly while someone else walks off with the gold cup. No, what he said was: I think you and I will be even closer, and that we will be even better together and more to each other if we're best friends, not boyfriends.

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

I said I hated life. You said you hated life. We decided to hate it together.

If she were running through the rye, if she were headed toward that abyss, I would grab hold with every ounce of my strength, with every scared beat of my heart, with every thought that could only be for her.