Quotes About Support

That's why we read fiction, isn't it? To remind us that whatever we suffer, we're not the only ones?

You signed no contract to become a parent, but the responsibilities were written in invisible ink. There was a point when you had to support your child, even if no one else would. It was your job to rebuild the bridge, even if your child was the one who burned it in the first place.

Rest easy, real mothers. The very fact that you worry about being a good mom means that you already are one.

The best relationships were the ones where both sides went out of their way to make sure the other wasn't disappointed.

A dutiful mother is someone who follows every step her child makes...And a good mother is someone whose child wants to follow her.

Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back.

They don't really pay attention to me, except when they need my blood or something. I wouldn't even be alive, if it wasn't for Kate being sick.

It's the child who's supposed to cry, and the mom who makes it all better, not the other way around, which is why mothers will move heaven and earth to hold it together in front of their own kids.

It takes two people to make a friendship work

The nurses, I have already learned, are the ones who give us the answers we're desperate for. Unlike the doctors, who fidget like they need to be somewhere else, the nurses patiently answer us as if we are the first set of parents to ever have this kind of meeting with them, instead of the thousandth.

No matter what Joe Hoffman and Wade Preston say, it's not gender that makes a family; it's love. You don't need a mother and a father; you don't necessarily even need two parents. You just need someone who's got your back.

You always knew after shitty things happened, who your friends really were.

be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief.

You saved me, I said. Nathaniel put his hands on either side of my face. I had to, he said. So you could save me back.

God, what had we done? It didn't really matter. Piper had been the kind of friend with whom I didn't have to fill in the spaces with random conversation. It was okay to just be with her. She knew that sometimes I needed that - to not have to take care of anyone or anything, to simply exist in my own space, adjacent to hers.

I truly believed that the cost of success for us shouldn't be the cost of failure for a good friend.

Grandmothers in Botswana tell their children that if you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, you must go together.

Her hands quieted. Yeah. Because even if the law says that no one is responsible for anyone else, helping someone who needs it is the right thing to do. I sat down beside her, close enough that the skin of her arm hummed right next to mine. You really believe that? She looked down at her lap Yeah. Then how, I asked, can you walk away from me?

I realize i do believe in people. In their strength to help each other, and to thrive in spite of the odds. I believe that the extraordinary trumps the ordinary,any day. I believe that having something to hope for-even if its just a better tomorrow-is the most powerful drug on this planet.

It was nice not having to be the one in control, for a little while. It was nice to be the one who was protected, instead of the one who'd been protecting eveyone else.

You could only save someone that wanted to be saved; otherwise, you'd be dragged down for the count, too.

There are some nights when you just want to know there's someone else besides you in this wide world.

But that's what love is, isn't it? When it hurts you more to see someone suffer than it does to take the pain away?

Babies don't come with instruction booklets. You'd learn the same way we all do -- you'd read up on dinosaurs, you'd Google backhoes and skidders. And you don't need a penis to go buy a baseball glove.