Quotes About Protection
Must protect my little pockets of happiness.
~ Sara Gruen
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There is no question that I am the only thing standing between these animals and the business practices of August and Uncle Al, and what my father would do--what my father would want me to do--is look after them, and I am filled with that absolute and unwavering conviction. No matter what I did last night, I cannot leave these animals. I am their shepherd, their protector.
~ Sara Gruen
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I've decided it's not about me at all. It's a protective mechanism for them, a way of buffering themselves against my future death, like when teenagers distance themselves from their parents in preparation for leaving home.
~ Sara Gruen
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My dearest heart," he whispered, gathering her into his arms. He was holding her so tight she could hardly breathe, but she liked it. She wanted to become a part of him, she thought, as she cuddled up against him. She wanted to be with him always. "I will never let anything hurt you again," he went on. "I will be your lord and your love, and wherever I go, you will be in my mind and my heart.
~ Sara Mackenzie
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I'm going to check on you in the night, he said. At random intervals of my choosing. I figured.
~ Sara Zarr
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It seemed safer to hold it in, where the only one who could judge was me.
~ Sarah Dessen
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I didn't want to talk about what happened, so it seemed safest not to talk at all.
~ Sarah Dessen
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I didn't trot my pain out to show around. I kept it better hidden than anyone. I did.
~ Sarah Dessen
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The chances we take, knowing no better than to fall or to stand back and hold ourselves in... protecting our hearts with the tightest of grips.
~ Sarah Dessen
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All I wanted - all I'd ever wanted - was just to get away. To be somewhere small where I could crowd in and feel safe, all four walls pressed around me, no one staring or pointing or yelling.
~ Sarah Dessen
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Sorry? For what, Mom? She looked at me, eyes widening, For not protecting you, she said. All this time I'd been the one with everything to hide, everything to be ashamed of. Is hadn't even occurred to me that someone else might think to take the blame. I should have known what was happening. I should have known just by looking at you
~ Sarah Dessen
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Sorry? For what, Mom? She looked at me, eyes widening, For not protecting you, she said. All this time I'd been the one with everything to hide, everything to be ashamed of. It hadn't even occurred to me that someone else might think to take the blame. I should have known what was happening. I should have known just by looking at you.
~ Sarah Dessen
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It was as if I was attached to her with a tether, her every movement yanking at me, my own hands reaching to shield her from the dangers of her waving arms.
~ Sarah Dessen
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But as I dropped my hand from my eyes to say this to Jamie, I realized I couldn't see him anymore. My view was blocked by my sister, who had moved to stand between us, one hand stretched out behind her, toward me.
~ Sarah Dessen
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She has always felt safe inside his arms, this beautiful, powerful elder brother, whom so many fear but who has always been as tender as a lover with her.
~ Sarah Dunant
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A young woman seeks sanctuary with us. It is not for us to deny her that right. Tell His Holiness that we will protect her with our lives and care for her until she is ready to leave." Not even Alexander VI can storm a convent and get away with it. The
~ Sarah Dunant
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What you guys have is enough. It's a fuckload more than most people ever get, ever even dream of getting, and it is your job, it's your duty while you are alive on this planet, to be thankful for it. And to protect it too.
~ Sarah Dunn
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Think careful, not cool. While driving, keep windows cracked but not wide open. Some people think that letting a dog hang their head out the window is cool, but it's dangerous. Dogs can get hurled from the car in an accident or have debris fly into their eyes, causing permanent damage.
~ Sarah Hodgson
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We both know how to hide our sharpest parts, I just don't always recognize my own weaponry.
~ Sarah Kay
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She makes tea by hand. Nettles, slippery elm, turmeric, cinnamon - my mother is a recipe for warm throats and belly laughs. Once she fell off a ladder when I was three. She says all she was worried about was my face as I watched her fall.
~ Sarah Kay
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Once, she fell off of a ladder when I was three. She says all she was worried about was my face as I watched her fall.
~ Sarah Kay
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Ever after she lived alongside the knowledge that nothing on this earth could protect her completely.
~ Sarah Miller
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Just as she placed herself daily between the children and the hazards of the house and yard, Charles stood between all of them and everything beyond the bounds of their claim.
~ Sarah Miller
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You don't really have to fallin love with him, but he's not a terrible option for a fling. As long as you use a condom. Two condoms, even.
~ Sarah Mlynowski
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