Quotes About Support

He came third in the state for woodwork," Francesca explains. "We actually had to be proud of him for a whole week. Tough times.

It's too late. Seventeen-year-olds don't need fathers. Oh god. I'm thirty-four years old and I need a father. I can't even begin to think what my daughter needs.

I'm thinking that after last night you shouldn't have to spend your morning in a hospital finding out if my mother has tried to OD." "And I'm thinking that after last night I want to be anywhere you are and if that means being in a hospital asking about your mother, then so be it.

I would rather die than ever see you suffering this way. I don't want you or any child I ever have or any woman I ever love to go through or feel what you're going through, but it's happened and I don't know what to do.

Even five minutes of your time can make someone's day

I didn't realize until those few days how much a hug meant. To have someone hold you could be the greatest medicine of all.

Everyone had told him to be strong for her, but Finnikin didn't know how to be strong for himself.

This morning, my mother didn't get out of bed.

Later, when they were almost asleep he had called out to her. 'Finke?' 'Yeah?' 'We'll make a great team. You plant. I build

You're good enough, Jacob.

If I asked you to stay, would you?" I ask later as we're standing by his car. "Maybe I would, but I don't think you'd ask me. But I swear to God that I'll be on the first plane back if you ever need saving from anything. . . ." I shake my head again. "You go and shake your foundations, Will. I think it's about time I saved myself.

Hold my hand,' she said, sobbing against him. "Hold my hand because I might disappear

We stay like that for a while. No one tries to analyze it or offer solutions. No one interrupts. Sometimes, momentarily, I'm embarrassed by the whole disclosure, but I realize that I trust these people and I don't know how or when that happened.

Wives can replace their husbands, Georgie," her aunt once told her. "But sisters can't replace their brothers.

Beatriss looked away, fighting tears. She gripped their hands. "I'm forgetting what the truth is, friends," she said. "We were here, Lady Beatriss. We saw it all, so when you forget what the truth is, you come to us and we'll remind you.

The depression belongs to all of us. I think of the family down the road whose mother was having a baby and they went around the neighborhood saying, "We're pregnant." I want to go around the neighborhood saying, "We're depressed." If my mum can't get out of bed in the morning, all of us feel the same. Her silence has become ours, and it's eating us alive.

Sometimes you don't let us talk about how we're feeling. If we feel scared, you say, 'Nothing to worry about, guys,' but that doesn't make it go away. It makes it grow.

My friends always told me they wanted to rescue me from Siobhan, and I relished being saved because it meant that people stopped tapping me on the shoulder to point out what I was doing wrong.

I have an aunt and I have a Griggs and this is what it's like to have connections with people.

He's never asked about her depression in the past, just knew it was there like a big black blob over her head. In Year Eleven they thought it was a one-off because her mother had been sick, but he had seen it once or twice again. Francesca knew the signs and he could tell she fought it with everything she had inside of her.

my dad goes along with it because no one in my family has ever pretended that my mother doesn't make all the decisions.

It's kind of like a grief, and it's not a puzzle that you're supposed to work out on your own

Do not cry," she said fiercely, but her own tears flowed. "Do not cry, Finnikin. For if we begin, our tears will never end.

Do what I don't got the strength to do myself