Quotes About Support

And I know that when you get hurt, your first instinct is to run. But I also realized something else. No one has ever followed you when you did run. But I'm going to follow, and I'm going to keep following until you realize that you can trust me. I'm not going to let you run away from something that could be so great. That is so great. Marty, I love you. - Nate

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Look to the living, love them, and hold on.

But if love is not the cure, it certainly can act as a very strong medicine.

Patient reluctant to be with people when depressed because she feels her depression is such an intolerable burden on others";

But it has been precisely that persevering steadiness of my mother, her belief in seeing things through, and her great ability to love and learn, listen and change, that helped keep me alive through all of the years of pain and nightmare that were to come.

Now and again she would break in with "Yes, yes, that's very interesting," "Of course you can," or "Had you thought of …?" Never, but never, was there an "I don't think that's very practical" or "Why don't you just wait and see how it goes?

Far more important, they took me and my interests very seriously. They never tried to discourage me from becoming a doctor, even though it was an era that breathed, If woman, be a nurse.

I was one of many who owed their lives to the black circles and squares in Schou's family tree.

Humor and absorption on friends'faces are replaced by fear and concern.

An ardent temperament makes one very vulnerable to dreamkillers, and I was more lucky than I knew in having been brought up around enthusiasts, and lovers of enthusiasts.

So we would get together at some ungodly hour, I would be secretly and inexpressibly grateful, and he somehow would have finessed it so that I didn't feel like I was too huge a burden to him. It was a rare gift of friendship.

Parents also seriously underestimate the extent of depression in their adolescent children.

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Mr Capaldi believed there was nothing special inside Josie that couldn't be continued. He told the Mother he'd searched and searched and found nothing like that. But I believe now he was searching in the wrong place. There was something very special, but it wasn't inside Josie. It was inside those who loved her.

And what made these heart-to-hearts possible--you might even say what made the whole friendship possible during that time--was this understanding we had that anything we told each other during these moments would be treated with careful respect: that we'd honor confidences, and that no matter how much we rowed, we wouldn't use against each other anything we'd talked about during those sessions.

I'm sure she barely knew the meaning of loneliness with you here.

Make no mistake about it, my child, Marie-Claude is on your side and will always be on your side. Is she afraid of you? We're all afraid of you. I myself had to fight back my dread of you all almost every day I was at Hailsham. There were times I'd look down at you all from my study window and I'd feel such revulsion . . .

In those early months, we'd somehow developed this idea that how well you were settling in at the Cottages—how well you were coping—was somehow reflected by how many books you'd read. It sounds odd, but there you are, it was just something that developed between us, the ones who'd arrived from Hailsham.

I'm sure she felt it too, because we'd always hold each other very tight after times like that, as though that way we'd manage to keep the feeling away.

Josie often had to go for medical examinations, I said. They took samples of her blood and other things. Josie never liked those examinations. They hurt her. Do you think there could be a way of making those examinations nice for her?

Poor creatures. I wish I could help you. But now you're by yourself.

A veces es muy difícil, lo sé. Es como si todo tu mundo se derrumbara a tu alrededor. Pero te diré una cosa, Jenny. Estás llevando a cabo maravillosamente la tarea de ir poniendo de nuevo las piezas en su sitio. Créeme, es cierto. Sé que jamás podrá ser lo mismo, pero sé también que está en tu mano seguir en la brecha y llegar a forjarte un futuro feliz. Y yo siempre estaré aquí para ayudarte. Quiero que lo sepas

Sabemos que está en tu mano hacerlo. Así que te estamos pidiendo que nos ayudes. Te lo plantearé de otro modo: te lo pido yo. Te pido que ayudes a mi hijo a tener una oportunidad en este mundo.