Quotes About Safety

For, without the knowledge of love, fear is all that remains, and we can never feel safe.

We fail to move beyond what is safe, we abandon our dreams in favor of what is sure rather than strive for what is best for us.

Don't worry. You're safe now. You've got nothing left to steal.

She knew she needed Lynn, so she wouldn't get angry at her. Jo's parents had taught her long ago that it was not safe to get angry at someone she depended on. (53)

Stay put," he said. "I don't want you setting off any explosives that'll get us both killed." "Let me go with you." "I don't want you getting hurt, Red." There was something about the sound of his voice that gave her pause. "Don't tell me you care." He ruffled her hair as though she were four instead of twenty-five. "All right, I won't. Just stay put.

While Jeff had been packing for this trip to his grandparents, his mother had tucked a flashlight and extra batteries into his suitcase over his protests. "So if you have to get up in the night you can find the bathroom down the hall," she had said. "Mom, that's crazy!"' "No, it isn't. I know from experience. There are lots of little tables and what-nots in that hall, and you could break a toe.

Laughing made me feel safe. I was not going to be enveloped by the seediness that coated this world like dust.

Tutum te robore reddam, which means I shall render you safe by my strength and she means every word of it.

I promise, I will never shoot you by accident.

Puck said the shittier the hotel, the less likely it was anyone would remember us. By that logic, we were now perfectly safe.

In the first days on D ward, Deborah had been able to dramatize herself in her own mind simply by thinking: the insane asylum—the violent ward. It conjured huge and flaming pictures in her mind. The reality had offered a promise of more physical safety, but to experience the reality was to suffer a boredom as endless as the illness itself.

Love is the same as a safety pin missed in the lapel of chance.

Love is the same as a safety pin unsafe in the lapel of chance.

They emerged into the sun again, covered in dust. Birdie took deep breaths, relieved to be back out in the open. She looked at Grey, unsure what she wanted to communicate but sure that it was huge and that she was powerless. But Grey seemed to recognize fear when he saw it. And he simply reached forward and pulled Birdie to him. She sank against his chest. It felt different than Enrico's body. Taller and firmer. It felt safe.

When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.

Did you tell her it was just until all was safe, or did you promise her forever?" Victoria shook her head. "Sounds to me like you've got some proposing to do before you're really a married man. Maybe a few days alone will loosen your tongue and make that knee of your bend easier.

cycling is a nonstop exercise in crash prevention,

You can weep over each other's hidden nobility when we're safe!

For now, I just want things all safe and familiar. My life may not be perfect, but it is what I have known.

Heroin offers safety, and the illusion of immortality, but it robs you of the possibilities that make holding onto life worthwhile in the first place. And since death will take us all, addicts and never-addicts and former addicts and future addicts, writing about heroin suggests that while we are here, we ought to live, which means, alas, that we allow ourselves to age and to die.

He wanted to know where the ice was weakest beneath their feet so he could keep them from falling through.

right? But no. Don't hitchhike, the driver

And then she thought about the other streets. It wasn't just this street that she was afraid of or that was bad. It was any street where people were packed together like sardines in a can.

As I write these recollections of women who survived, I hope my readers are taking careful note of why they did. They screamed. They fought. They slammed doors in a stranger's face. They ran. They doubted glib stories. They spotted flaws in those stories. They were lucky enough to have someone step up and protect them.