Quotes About Support

Just listen. Just be. Just witness. Just care. You don't have to fix it.

Always remember, said Petra, a friend is someone who understands your past, believes in you future, and accepts you just the way you are.... And a friend stands by you, Suzanne thought to herself,...No matter what it cost her.

People don't break up because someone's family is a little . . . messy. If that were the case, no one would ever get married.

But that's not how you learn you can count on someone. You learn it in the moments when everyone's too tired to be sweet, too tired to try hard. You learn it by what they do for you then.

My grandfather used to say that most people don't want to hear the thing that will make it work better," I said. "They want to hear what will make it easier." "And what did he say to do about that?" "Find other people. You know, for starters.

He raised a glass to them and said, wherever they were, he was grateful to them for not being what I needed, so he got to be the one sitting across from me.

As she reads, I listen to her

Achei que se eu fosse legal, gente boa, ela entenderia que pode contar comigo. Mas não é assim que a gente sabe que pode contar com alguém. A gente descobre isso nos momentos em que todo mundo está cansado demais para ser legal, cansado demais para se esforçar. A gente descobre vendo o que essa pessoa faz por nós.

I'd learned early on that people stay away if they think you're struggling. They don't want the stink to fall on them too.

She wanted to only want for her children what they want for themselves, even if she doesn't agree with it, even if she wouldn't hope for that.

Not if she hasn't succeeded in convincing them that she is behind them, no matter what.

Alguien tenía que asistir a Rosaura desde el más allá, porque los del más acá no tenían manera. No

Those hands had rescued her from horror and she would never forget it.

Sabes muy bien que por ser la más chica de las mujeres a ti te corresponde cuidarme hasta el día de mi muerte. Dicho

My grandmother had a very interesting theory; she said that each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves; just as in the experiment, we need oxygen and a candle to help.

Apparently having your girlfriend get shot in the head and Life Flighted away takes its toll on a guy. Imagine that? I told him it was no biggie, but he's been kind of edgy about it.

Gratitude was a big one. He hadn't realized how much he took people for granted in his life until they showed up to help him without even being asked. It was humbling as hell.

That's the key, you know. If you think about the pain to come, you'll just give up. So you take it hour by hour, minute by minute, and the only thing you have through all of it is your team." Elizabeth

Pa took her hand and comforted it in his big one. He said, "We must do the best we can, Laura, and not grumble. What must be done is best done cheerfully.

friends will stand by me in trouble. They will

Oh, Charles!" Ma said. "What will we do?" Pa slumped down on a bench and said, "I don't know.

Dost though even know what would become of me?...Friends would disown me. It is our way. I would be alone! No, he said unexpectdly. He turned and held his hand to her, palm upward, empty, a simple masculine offering. Maddygirl. With... me .

No one in the world loved you quite the way a younger sibling did.

Aren't you going to answer it? Lopez asked. I'm afraid it's my mother, I said. She calls on Sundays? No, she calls whenever things are going badly.