Quotes About Support

For three nights he hadn't known how to touch my mother or what to say. Before, they had never found themselves broken together. Usually, it was one needing the other but not both needing each other, and so there had been a way, by touching, to borrow the stronger one's strength. And they had never understood, as they did now, what the word horror meant. ~pgs 20-21

Since their first kiss in our kitchen two weeks after my death, I had known that he was - as my sister and I had giggled with our Barbies or while watching Bobby Sherman on TV - her one and only. Samuel had pressed himself into her need and the cement between the two of them had begun to set immediately. They had gone to Temple together, side by side. He had hated it and she had pushed him through. She had loved it and this had allowed him to survive.

our heartache poured into one another like water from cup to cup.

She had needed the time to know that this love would not destroy her, and I had, I now knew, given her that time, could give it, for it was what I had in great supply.

We're here, you know ... All the time. You can talk to us and think about us. It doesn't have to be sad or scary.

Who am I to tell her who to love? My job just to love her good and true myself. P. 237

When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us.

Is solace anywhere more comforting than in the arms of a sister?

no person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended. Or who belittles in any fashion the gifts you labor so to bring into the world.

Just cause I love her don't take away none of her rights.

Life is very different when you have a good friend. I've seen people without special friends, close friends. Other men, especially. For some reason men don't often make and keep friends. This is a real tragedy, I think, because in a way, without a tight male friend, you never really are able to see yourself.

Long as I can spell G-o-d I got somebody along.

Just cause I love her don't take away none of her rights… Who am I to tell her who to love? My job just to love her good and true myself.

no person is a friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow

my friend comes. And cramps and aches and pains—but I must still keep going as if nothing is happening, or be an embarrassment

Just cause I love her don't take away none of her rights.

They had a lot of love to give. But I needed love plus understanding. They run a little short of that.

Keep track of family members; talk with them, work and plan for the future with them, vacation with them, take them with you when you have something joyful to share.

Each woman is capable of truly bringing another into the world. This we must all do for each other.

It is because when you truly love someone you wish them no suffering, although they must suffer, just in the course of life. You are always reaching out to them, to heal them. They instinctively do the same for you.

When the axe came into the forest, the trees said the handle is one of us.

HELPED are those who find the courage to do at least one small thing each day to help the existence of another—plant, animal, river, or human being. They shall be joined by a multitude of the timid. H

because part of shaping ourselves is done by others; and a lot of our shaping comes from that one close friend who is something like us. It

Being vulnerable, as well as honest, is the key to collective liberation. This is one thing I understand from the principles of disability justice. It is not something that happens overnight after buying a candle, listening to a podcast, or reading a memoir. It requires daily intentions, self-reflections, and support from the people who care about you.