Quotes About Support

Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-Aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception. There were times I stayed in my room for days on end with headphones on, if only so that I would not have to listen to my mother cry. There were the weeks that my father worked round-the-clock shifts, so that he wouldn't have to come home to a house that felt too big for us.

Everyone is afraid of saying the wrong thing. It's more important to be there than to be right.

Life could take on any number of shapes while you were busy fighting your own demons. But if you were changing at the same rate as the person beside you, nothing else really mattered. You became each other's constant.

It makes Faith think of a hammock in their yard, a web of rope that she thought would unravel the first time she leaned back on it, but that managed to support her all the same.

At that moment, Oliver realized that home is not a place, but rather, the people who love you.

I have no idea what Andrew might have done, and I do not ask. She believes that I can fix this, and like always, that's enough to make me think that I can. I'll take care of it,: I say, when what I really mean is: I'll take care of you.

Listen," she said. "I may not be what you want right now, but I'm all you've got.

Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

I learned a long time ago with you that folks who were trying to be kind would rather do it with a macaroni-and-cheese bake than any personal involvement. You hand off a serving dish and you've done your job - no need to get personally involved, and your conscience is clean. Food is the currency of aid.

I leaned forward and kissed him. And again. As if I were passing him all those silent words I cound not say, the ones that explained my biggest secret: that I might not have OI but I knew how he (Adam) felt. That I was breaking apart, too, all the time.-Amelia

No matter who else is mourning, you're in your own little cell. Even when people try to comfort you, you're aware that now there is a barrier between you and them, made of the horrible thing that happened, that keeps you isolated.

I had not asked to be rescued, true, but that did not mean I didn't need saving.

The thing about a mom is that she's always there. She's the one who rubs your back when you have the flu, who manages to notice you have no clean underwear and does your wash for you, who stocks the refrigerator with all the foods you love without having to ask. The thing about a mom is that you never imagine taking care of her, instead of the other way around.

Someone once told me that when you give birth to a daughter, you've just met the person whose hand you'll be holding the day you die.

When someone loves you up one side and down the other like that, you make every effort to stick around.

Some people, they get down in a hole so deep they can't figure out what to hold on to.

You okay in there? No, I'm hanging from a closet rod.

I'd have your back off-site too, if you'd let me." ~Cain, Ghost of You

The only job a parent has is work themselves out of a job.

If you have no job, help is needed.

It's hard to make things right for everyone.""But if everybody helped just one person, lots of people would get helped.

A good shepherd encourages and inspires each one that works alongside him.

Competition is not about fighting, it is all about helping each other to achieve a common goal.

Now men and women are separate and unequal. We should be hand in hand in fact we should have our arms around one another.