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Quotes About Support

It does appear that in some other cultures the work of motherhood is not left entirely up to one person the way it is here, so a baby can be handed around to many relatives, which gives the mother some blessed relief. Our society tends to elevate pregnancy and childbirth to unrealistic romantic heights then leave women on their own to struggle with the task, making them wonder what they are doing wrong when at times it all seems too much.
~ Robin Barker
Come on Grace, I'm not going to tell on you. I'm your sister.' And that's all she has to say.
~ Robin Epstein
Reed: "I owe you big-time, Ronnie." Ronnie: "You've been my best friend since kindergarten, Reed. I owe you big-time." That's the kind of friend she is.
~ Robin Friedman
I will always take your part, Bee. Right or wrong. That is why you must always take care to be right, lest you make your father a fool.
~ Robin Hobb
We are pack!
~ Robin Hobb
You want a mate who will follow your dream. You don't want to give up your own ambitions to make someone else's life possible.' 'I supposed that's true,' Althea admitted reluctantly. An instant later she demanded, 'Why is that so wrong?' 'It isn't,' Amber assured her, A moment later she added wickedly, 'As long as you're male.
~ Robin Hobb
It's not the sort of thing one asks of a friend. He hasn't offered, and I will not ask it. I will not tear him that way. I am trying to let go. I don't know how.
~ Robin Hobb
And what do you believe?" A slow smile spread over his face. "I believe in you. You are my new beginning.
~ Robin Hobb
He felt her dim groping towards him, a plea for companionship and comfort. He didn't want to give it. But he had never been a hard-hearted man. When she invaded his mind, pleading, he had to reach back. 'You are stronger than you know,' he told her. 'Keep moving. Follow the other ones, my copper beauty. Soon there will be better days for you, but for now you must be strong.
~ Robin Hobb
you cannot fend off the enemy if you do not have confidence in those who stand behind you.
~ Robin Hobb
Hold the cat. You'll feel better. I don't think so. He rubbed against my leg insistently. Hold the cat. I don't want to hold the cat. He reared up suddenly on his hind legs, and hooked his vicious little front claws into both flesh and leggings. Don't talk back! Pick up the cat.
~ Robin Hobb
When Hap had been ten, it had been so much easier to know that I was doing the right things for him. Feed him well, teach him to fish, see that he had clean clothes and slept well at night. That was most of what a boy needed. A young man was a different animal entirely.
~ Robin Hobb
Patience had once counseled me that the best way to stop pitying myself was to do something for someone else.
~ Robin Hobb
To Fitz and the Fool, my best friends for over twenty years
~ Robin Hobb
Not every problem in the world belongs to you alone, Badgerlock. Let others have their share.
~ Robin Hobb
What you're looking for is the feeling that no matter what, being with that person is always going to be better than being without that person. Good times or bad. That having that person around makes whatever you're going through better, or at least more tolerable.
~ Robin Hobb
I will always take your part, Bee. Right or wrong. That is why you must always take care to be right
~ Robin Hobb
I need a friend, and I have none to whom I can admit my weakness, my fear, my errors.
~ Robin Hobb
I do not think you should be alone with this sort of grief. But he was wrong. Grief makes its own solitude, and I knew that I must endure it.
~ Robin Hobb
There is security in knowing that a friend has your back, even if he is sound asleep
~ Robin Hobb
grant your mercy, lend me your strength. Mercy, on an indrawn breath, Strength as he breathed out.
~ Robin Hobb
Not every problem in the world belongs to you, Tom Badgerlock. Let others have their share.
~ Robin Hobb
She held his hand and did not look down nor back.
~ Robin Hobb
A tower seldom crumbles from the bottom up
~ Robin Hobb