Quotes About Support

You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.

I, um, I have this problem. I broke up with my boyfriend, you see. And I'm pretty upset about it, so I wanted to talk to my best friend. [...] The thing is, they're both you.

When you love someone you let them take care of you.

Bailee had watched them come in and out of the sheriff's office the week she'd been in jail. She, Sarah, and Lacy had sworn daily that if any one of the three won the lottery to become a husband, the other two women would help their friend become a widow as fast as possible.

You are engaging in madness. I feel obliged to accompany you.

I want to kill her." "Need me to help you find a good vein?

Summers past love company, seems every time you turn around there's more o' the bastards at your back.

There are times for growing stronger and times for comforting, and sometimes both times see a few tears.

No mother should lose her child.

This was how to help a family who has just lost their child. Wash the clothes, make soup. Don't ask them what they need, bring them what they need. Keep them warm. Listen to them rant, and cry, and tell their story over and over.

She imagined books and this book group getting her through whatever was coming next.

Some women have the best husbands. Others make the best of the husbands they have.

Each certitude is only sure because of the support offered by unexplored ground.—Michel Foucault, The Politics of Truth, 1997

I hoped that Mary Anne, Claudia, Stacey, and I - the Baby Sitters Club - would stay together for a long time.

So much could be solved, she thinks, if we simply held hands with each other more often.

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?" —GEORGE ELIOT

My wife is pregnant, and her physician told her that physiologically and medically speaking, there are three different kinds of humans: men, women, and pregnant women. I think the same idea applies to you, Edward. There are grown-ups, children, and then you. You don't feel like a kid anymore, right?" Edward nods. "But you won't be an adult for years. You're something else, and we need to figure out what you are, so we can figure out how to help you.

Why would you want to spend your life with twelve-year-olds?' 'Maybe I can help them. When I was twelve, you watched me. You had a notepad just for writing down what you noticed, remember? Maybe everyone needs that kind of attention at that age. I could get a notepad.' She considers him, the dimple deep in her cheek. He thinks, She's still carrying that notepad.

much could be solved, she thinks, if we simply held hands with each other more often.

Basketball was the first thing in William's life that loved him back.

Humans need community, for our emotional health. We need connection, a sense of belonging. We are not built to thrive in isolation

He hated that his friend had to resume the duty of standing guard over his depression.

When I'm with you, I feel fixed.

he's telling the kids to help others when they need help, and to accept help when they need it themselves.