Quotes About Support

Remember the good times---you'll need them during the bad," a family friend had boozily warned her at their wedding.

I've learned a lot this year.. I learned that things don't always turn our the way you planned, or the way you think they should. And I've learned that there are things that go wrong that don't always get fixed or get put back together the way they were before. I've learned that some broken things stay broken, and I've learned that you can get through bad times and keep looking for better ones, as long as you have people who love you.

I think every person who is single should have a dog. I think the government should step in and intervene: If you're not married or coupled up, whether you've been dumped or divorced or widowed or whatever, they should require you to proceed immediately to the pound nearest you and select an animal companion.

I decided.. that I could go on being scared forever, that I could keep walking, that I could carry my rage around, hot and heavy in my chest forever. But maybe there was another way. You have everything you need, my mother had told me. And maybe all I needed was the courage to admit that what I needed was someone to lean on.

My mom and my stepdad are both therapists.

Tomorrow, or when you feel better, we'll go to the store and buy you all the things you need.

Some'll rob you blind, some'll kick you when you're down, but you spread some good feeling and some warmth about, and people like that. Aye.

There is, by the way, lots of training - lots - about how to get a plane safely down on the ground or onto water. There is absolutely nothing that tells you what comes next. Once you've got the plane down and everyone more or less safely out of the aircraft, there's not much after that. Presumable you're meant to be set upon by cheering hordes who hoist you up on their shoulders.

It would be lovely, wouldn't it, whenever you're going through something difficult, if someone could just tap you on the shoulder and say, "Don't worry, it's completely worth it. It seems like absolutely horrible crap now, but I promise it will all come good in the end," and you could say, "Thank you, Fairy Godmother.

Is this a love potion?" "Oh goodness, no, you don't need that," said Bronagh. "No. It's for the bond that holds two sisters, one of the strongest things on earth. Forged in steel, hard as iron, easy to burn, never to break. Goodspeed home.

How very strange that someone she had met so briefly, under such extraordinary circumstances, should turn out to be able to pinpoint exactly what she was feeling, and how. Or, rather, take what she was feeling and make her feel so very much better about it.

It had never occurred to her that other mothers, whatever their situations, might be feeling exactly the same way.

We are two survivors clinging to a life raft.

What's the good of news if you haven't a sister to share it?

I have the most amazing support network around me.

Us," Peter corrects. "I did it for us." He links our fingers together. "It's you and me, kid.

A girl's relationship with her father is the most important male relationship of her life.

Families shrink and expand. All you can really do is be glad for it, glad for each other, for as long as you have each other.

i worried he'd let go, but he didn't. We held hands like this the whole rest of the way home.

I want to be that person for him, I want to be the one who keeps him going during this difficult time.

For the briefest of moments his eyes search mine, and I know he's looking for reassurance. That's when I put my arms around him and hug him tight to me, tight enough that he knows I'm here; I won't let go.

I tighten my fingers around his. If we just hold on tight enough, it will all be okay.

We are sisters, and there's nothing she or I can ever say or do to change that.

I didn't have that kind of friendship, the forever kind of friendship that will last your whole life through, no matter what.