Quotes About Support

Now take my hand and hold it tight. I will not fail you here tonight, For failing you, I fail myself And place my soul upon a shelf In Hell's library without light. I will not fail you here tonight.

None of us can ever save himself; we are the instruments of one another's salvation, and only by the hope that we give to others do we lift ourselves out of the darkness into light.

Best thing that can happen to a man is a good woman.

Dogs know we need to give affection as much as they need to receive it. They were the first therapists; they've been in practice for thousands of years.

The mockery of friends is affectionate, and inoculates against foolishness.

You can't fix things with a hug, but you can't make them any worse either.

The wives of Spartans are the secret pillars of the world.--Odd Thomas

I am no good alone. I need bonds, vows real if unspoken, shared laughter, and people who depend on me as I depend on them.

Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair.

That is the best of all things we can do for one another: Make the dark small.

To lose your mother, well, that is like losing the sun above you. It is like losing—I'm sorry, I would rather not go on.

To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of growing old, who is supposed to bring you a sister-in-law and nieces and nephews, creatures to people the tree of your life and give it new branches. To lose your father is to lose the one whose guidance and help you seek, who supports you like a tree trunk supports its branches. To lose your mother, well, that is like losing the sun above you. It is like losing—I'm sorry, I would rather not go on.

His father had been his sole supporter, telling him to live for his love for Dora, in precise opposition to his uncle's silent opprobrium. Dora was relegated to invisible duties deep within the kitchen. Gaspar lived equally invisibly in the Lobo household, invisibly loved by his father, who invisibly loved his mother.

What are we without the ones we love?

My mother still thinks of things to do for him. Light church candles, name a star, send money to somewhere.

When a woman starts fussing over some physical defect, deny, deny, deny. Particularly if she says, "Tell me the truth.

friends are like books you use them when you need them but u will always remember them

Don't you worry about other people's problems.

People use each other as a healing for their pain. They put each other on their existential wound, on the eye, on the cunt, on mouth and open hand. They hold each other and won't let go.

Behind every good politician is a soft, cuddly teddy bear

Under every friendship there is a difficult sentence that must be said, in order that the friendship can be survived.

But it's hard, when you're at a loose end yourself, to be happy for others

Yes, sometimes it's the strangers that sustain you.

Libraries are not failing because they are libraries. Neglected libraries get neglected, and this cycle, in time, provides the excuse to close them. Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.