Quotes About Support

As everyone applauds and sips champagne, I smile back at Rachel, thinking she got it just right. Love and friendship. They are what makes us who we are and what can change us, if we let them.

My name is Kirby Rose, and I'm adopted. I don't mean to make it sound like an AA confession, although sometimes that's how people take it, like it's something they should be supportive about. I just mean that they are two basic facts about me.

The list of differences was endless, but, in the end, none of them mattered. What mattered was that we completely accepted each other. That I had her back, and she had mine.

After all, there is nothing like a mother telling you that you're making a bad decision to convince you that what you are doing is the absolute best course of action.

It's the feeling of belonging. Right here where I am. In this house. With my parents and Charlotte. The people who know all my stories, from the beginning. The people who know me.

Parenting can be a real drain, even when sharing the misery with a spouse. Alone it was hard as fuck.

Conversation felt healing, and we all needed that.

Tell me what's going on in your world, Joey

If I ever wrote a book on divorces, one of my first suggestions to parents would be: Get rid of the second (or third) wife in the background when you're talking to your child—at least some of the time.

thinking that's the thing about Andy—I'm always at least okay when I'm with him.

If I had to, I'd fight it like death itself. But with you, I don't have to.

Work will be your mother, she whispered; it will lead you through dark days; it will clear you a level place to rest at last.

My job wasn't to cure all Ita Noonan's ills but to bring her safe through this particular calamity, I reminded myself, to push her little boat back into the current of what I imagined to be her barely bearable life.

The goal was to get sane, to get whole, to be complete enough to support someone else.

We're born alone and we die alone, but we get to travel with people along the way, and if you get lucky, you have a worthy consort.

I demand the independence of woman, her right to support herself; to live for herself; to love whomever she pleases, or as many as she pleases. I demand freedom for both sexes, freedom of action, freedom in love and freedom in motherhood.

Shooting Willoughby carrying Marianne up the path. ... Male strength -- the desire to be cradled again? ... I'd love someone to pick me up and carry me off. Frightening. Lindsay assures me I'd start to fidget after a while. She's such a comfort.

I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them

Ask the universe for guidance and support. It works big time.

There, there, baby!' said Julian, patting his little sister on the back and laughing at her furious face.

You look awfully pale.

my friend,' said Dick. 'Don't be silly.' 'I'm not silly

bundle of poles.

It's all right,' said Julian, putting his arm round Anne.