Quotes About Support

My peers are my role models, and my role models are my peers. Which is extraordinary.

I'll kill myself. I swear, I'll kill myself, you threatened. We're not going to leave you alone, I said. But we had to, eventually. After all, people are always separable.

It's good to have each other, but you also need to have your own people, your own experiences.

I never said a bad word about him. The whole time the two of your were together. Not one bad thing.

That's what the voices in your head are for, to get you through all the silent parts.

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 is not necessary. But the secret smile comes from knowing it's available,even when she's half a world away.

More than anything else, we want to fit into our own families.

But in the short term, siblings are at best a hassle and at worst a terror.

You won't cry, and that makes me want to.

But we haven't been there for you. We've been here. Watching as you become the role models.

In the long term, I can see how siblings could be helpful in life?someone to share family secrets with, someone of your own generation who knows if your memories are right or wrong, someone who sees you at eight and eighteen and forty-eight all at the once, and doesn't mind. I understand that. But in the short term, siblings are at best a hassle and at worst a terror.

i think the idea of a 'mental health day' was invented by people who have no clue what it's like to have bad mental health

It's weird how much that helps. To have one other person know the truth. To have that reflecting back at me. I don't actually need the world to know. Just one or two people.

Mental health days only exist for people who have the luxury of saying 'I don't want to deal with things today' and then can take the whole day off, while the rest of us are stuck fighting the things we always fight, with no one really caring one way or another.

It is unacceptable to sit in your room alone and scream at your life, but it is perfectly acceptable (albeit not exactly normal) to do it with a good friend on the highway, hearing your voice rise to the rush of the window wind and then hearing it be taken away, left behind in your wake.

And if you ever get the feeling you want to run away again, talk to someone about it. Because running away without a word is never going to be the answer to your problems; it will only cause more problems.

I want to tell Rhiannon all about it. Because when something happens, she's the person I want to tell. The most basic indicator of love.

These books are always there for me. All of them are there for me. My life changes all the time, but books don't change.

That has to be what love is--seeing what a mess he is and loving him anyway, because you know you're a mess, too, maybe even worse.

I am reminded how households with only two people have a different kind of gravity than others. We need the background noise, because otherwise the burden is entirely on us.

I truly don't understand any of this,' I confessed. She stayed standing, facing me. 'I wish I could help you there,' she told me. 'But I can't.

I found the strength to see her, to cheer her, to not look away. It was taking a toll, but it was a toll I willingly paid.

And being best friends is always about the benefit of the doubt -A

This is the hard part about having best friends that I feel no attachment to—I don't give them any benefit of the doubt. And being best friends is always about the benefit of the doubt.