Quotes About Protection

Now you will feel no rain / For each of you will be shelter for the other,

love was compass enough," said Armand quietly, "there would be no missing children.

The first victims are always the children.

mama mama if we are nothing why should we spare the neighborhood mama mama who will be next and why should we save the pictures

That's why I've kept you out of reach. It's like putting something you love away from everything so its beauty won't be tarnished. I want to be with you more, and them less. I want my life to change.

From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me.

Once the principle is admitted that it is the duty of the government to protect the individual against his own foolishness, no serious objections can be advanced against further encroachments.

She believed that unadulterated devotion had its share of protective power, as if love were a steel grinder that Fates could not snip through. She also believed that the moment you relaxed your guard, the moment you were anything less than ferocious in your keeping, that was the moment it could all be snatched away.

Safety is relative. You can be so close to shore that you can practically feel it under your feet, when you suddenly find yourself breaking apart on the rocks.

The safety of the rescuer is of a higher priority than the safety of the victim. Always. •

I didn't want to invade his privacy; I didn't want to fight with him; I didn't want anyone else to ever hurt him. I just wanted him to be a child forever." She glanced up, crying harder now. "But you can't do that, if you're a parent. Because part of your job is letting them grow up.

Like Connor, Alex protected me -and he was the only person I let close enough to do it. Like Connor, Alex could finish my sentences before I did. But unlike Connor, for whom I had ultimately come too late, I was just in time to take care of Alex.

When you have a child, you will do anything for her. You may not do it well, but you will kill yourself trying. You will trip over obstacles as you clear them out of her path. You will give her the choices you didn't have.

As I watched her, I understood why a mother would starve herself to feed a baby; how there was always time and room for a child to curl close to her side; how she could be soft enough to serve as a pillow and strong enough to move heaven and earth.

What we want is for everyone to just wear a mask. But then there are people who say that requiring a mask is a gross infringement of their bodily rights. I don't know how to make it any more clear: you don't have any bodily rights when you're dead.

In other words, what looks like cruel and heartless from one angle might, from another, actually be the only way to protect your family. -Lucas

Maybe this was the job of a mother: to buy time for her child, no matter what. Even if it meant doing something she'd rather not; even if it left her flat on her back.

This wasn't the first time he'd be saving her by letting her go.

My biggest hope for Jacob is that moments like this won't happen. My biggest fear: that they will, and I won't always be there to keep people from thinking the worst of him.

I want her to be safe. I want her to be mine.

We isolated ourselves, because it hurt less.

But I wouldn't get him close, and I would never show him my heart.

When I kept someone else from getting hurt, did I hurt you?

What twisted deity would grant you the superpower of fatherhood to protect someone who, one day, would not need you?