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Quotes About Protection

Let me do it," Jameson said. "I can't protect you from everything, Heiress, but I can protect you from this." Jameson wasn't the Hawthorne I usually associated with protection.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Avery, I can personally guarantee that Nash will not ax-murder you or allow you to be ax-murdered by anyone else while I'm gone.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
He brought his hands to the side my face, then the back of my neck, and I felt his touch through every square inch of my body. "I love you. I would die to protect you. I would make you hate me to keep you safe because damn it, Avery - some things are too precious to gamble.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
It's not the gun you should be scared of—it's the crazy man with the gun
~ Jennifer McMahon
The covers are tented up over me and Mama's heads, and it's all dark, like we're deep underground. Animals in a den. All warm and snuggly.
~ Jennifer McMahon
Just be careful with that heart of yours.
~ Jennifer Niven
Be careful with that heart of yours
~ Jennifer Niven
This is what I want to do with Violet - give her only the good, keep away the bad, so that good is all we ever have around us
~ Jennifer Niven
I'm not a shitty person, but I'm about to do a shitty thing. and you will hate me, and some other people will hate me, but I'm going to do it anyway to protect you and also myself.
~ Jennifer Niven
Innocence is an infinitely fragile thing and thought can sometimes injure, even destroy it. - Pg. 254
~ Ellis Peters
She was afraid to love me, Nancy said. I never realized it. By keeping her distance, she thought she could protect me. If she didn't love me, maybe I would escape notice. I would survive.
~ Emilie Richards
Abandon perfection Welcome reflection Nurture connection Offer protection
~ Emilie Richards
I never say to him, 'Let this or that enemy alone, because it would be ungenerous or cruel to harm them'; I say, 'Let them alone, because I should hate them to be wronged': and he'd crush you like a sparrow's egg, Isabella , if he found you a troublesome charge.
~ Emily Bronte
I felt that God had forsaken the stray sheep there to its own wicked wanderings, and an evil beast prowled between it and the fold, waiting his time to spring and destroy.
~ Emily Bronte
The two new friends established themselves in the house during his absence; where I heard Hareton sternly check his cousin, on her offering a revelation of her father-in-law's conduct to his father. He said he wouldn't suffer a word to be uttered in his disparagement: if he were the devil, it didn't signify; he would stand by him; and he'd rather she would abuse himself, as she used to, than begin on Mr. Heathcliff.
~ Emily Bronte
Bless God, he went as soldiers, His musket on his breast— Grant God, he charge the bravest Of all the martial blest! Please God, might I behold him In epauletted white— I should not fear the foe then— I should not fear the fight!
~ Emily Dickinson
You must let me go first, Sue, because I live in the Sea always and know the Road. I would have drowned twice to save you sinking, dear, If I could only have covered your Eyes so you wouldn't have seen the Water.
~ Emily Dickinson
There are umbrellas for rain. Parkas for blizzards. Storm cellars for tornadoes. But there's no protection for this.
~ Emily Franklin
May there be no frost on your potatoes, nor worms in your cabbage.
~ Emma Donoghue
PUBLIC IS URGED TO STAY OUT OF PUBLIC PLACES SUCH AS CAFÉS, THEATRES, CINEMAS, AND PUBLIC HOUSES. SEE ONLY THOSE PERSONS ONE NEEDS TO SEE. REFRAIN FROM SHAKING HANDS, LAUGHING, OR CHATTING CLOSELY TOGETHER. IF ONE MUST KISS, DO SO THROUGH A HANDKERCHIEF. SPRINKLE SULPHUR IN THE SHOES. IF IN DOUBT, DON'T STIR OUT.
~ Emma Donoghue
You must feel an almost pathological need—understandably—to stand guard between your son and the world." "Yeah, it's called being a mother." Ma nearly snarls it.
~ Emma Donoghue
Evolution protects those who protect themselves.
~ Emma Donoghue
What this good man had sworn to protect me from was not the same as what I feared. I trusted that he would never let anything hurt me, but he would never let anything touch me either.
~ Emma Donoghue
Love is it's own protection.
~ Emma Goldman