Quotes About Support

The military might have its heroes, but the wives were the backbone

My rescue dog, but who had rescued whom? Rover was my constant companion, and as Grace had so recently suggested, he was my comfort dog.

You are created to be your husband's helper, not his conscience, not his vocation director, and certainly not his critic.

The nature of love is about paying attention to the people who matter, about still giving when you are too tired to give. Be a mother who listens, a father who cuddles, a friend who calls back, a helping neighbor, a loving child.

At the present time I am spending nearly $300 a month from my own personal funds for work which in my opinion has absolutely to be done to keep up the work of the office

Ian was living in fairyland and in our own way we all helped him to stay there.

Grownups shouldn't turn their backs on children.

As you likely know all too well, parenting an atypical kid in a conventional world is an often lonely and difficult journey, with our families

There are people nobody notices, but the world revolves around them. They're the quiet ones, the strong, peaceful ones, who form the unbreakable hub for a bunch of fragile spokes. True families aren't bred, they're spun together. And at their center, at the center of the infinite wheel of every family of every kind, blood or otherwise, there is a hub, that person, those people, who hold the wheel together and keep it turning.

When hope is offered, hope responds.

frowned. Help you out, how? Unless you're

As ambitious women, we need to tell one another our stories. We need to tell the truth about our lives.

how getting into the habit of feeling comfortable turning to her network to ask for help has made her more effective:

The truth is, most people don't want advice—they want empathy and compassion.

The naysayer has a place in your life, but if that is someone that you are considering to be your friend, do they truly add value in your life?

Who cared that he couldn't spell? She was a good-enough speller for both of them. With luck, their children would take after her.

No one can truly know the answer to the question, What will you do when you lose the person you love?

Sometimes family isn't the situation you're born into but the people who've chosen to love you along the way.

I often said the wrong thing–wake up, shut up, grow up. These are the wrong things to say when people are sad about some minor cruelty or sentimental incident.

Those eyes, Teddy thought. Even frozen in time, they howled. You wanted to climb inside the picture and say, 'No, no, no. It's okay, it's okay. Sssh.' You wanted to hold her until the shakes stopped, tell her that everything would be all right.

My father's gone, Joe said eventually. Emma's dead. Your brother's dead. My brothers scattered. Shit, D, you're one of the only people I know anymore. I lose you, who the fuck am I?

She was his wife, mother, best friend, sister, lover, and priest.

You can have two families in this life, Joe, the one you're born to and the one you build.

We all die alone...... I could have helped her with the dying.