Quotes About Dependence

Barrons, Jericho: I haven't the faintest fecking clue. He keeps saving my life. I suppose that's something.

Nobody home but She for Whom I Am the World. Can't go on like this, can't keep doing it.- Jericho Barrons

You're Mac, and I'm Jericho. And nothing else matters.

Gwen Cassidy needed a man. Desperately. Failing that, she'd settle for a cigarette.

He is my vulnerability

I had a sudden dismal view of my future, of being led around and asked incessantly, like one of those Verizon commercials, Do you feel sick now?

I have a sudden lump in my throat. I didn't know she felt that way about me. Most of the time I feel like I just bumble about and get lucky with the help of my amazing friends. The truth is, nothing I've ever done would have succeeded if I'd been alone. "It take all of us, Kat. Not just me.

It was like being owned." "Some women like that." "Not me." "Perhaps it depends on the man doing the owning." "I doubt it. I couldn't breathe with him kissing me." "One day you may kiss a man you can't breathe without, and find breath is of little consequence.

Really, how much of a relationship can she think they're having when he's still "selecting" her every morning?

And the lass?" Drustan asked carefully. Dageus's smile was icy. "She goes where I go." "Dageus—" "Say no more. If she doesn't go, I doona go." "I would protect her for you." "She goes where I go." "And if she doesn't wish to?" "She will.

Mac- "I'm afraid you'll leave me behind since you can't see me." Ryodan- "I'd leave you behind if I could see you.

Some people fall apart when they get hurt," he says. "Puddle into apathy and despair and never recover. They wait all their lives for someone to come along and rescue them.

What kind of idiot breaks all his bones at the precise moment his damsel needs him the most?

Could we betray our parents by going back to them?

Lord, hang on to me. I know I should be hanging on to you, but I'm not. The truth is, I feel too wounded and broken and angry and rebellious and hurt right now to hang on to you. So if I'm going to get through this at all, it's got to be up to you. See me through this, Lord, hang on, please hang on to me and don't let go.

A strong breeze pushed at the martin houses strung from the old oak tree below. Watching them, Ceecee remembered the story Margaret had told her long ago, about how the small birds relied on others to make their homes for them. It made sense to her now, knowing that so much of life was reliant on things outside of oneself, how the whims of others dictated people's hearts and lives. How dreams and wishes were just so much dust when held against the will of another human being.

Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.

What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.

I know it's hard to not do well at something, and I know it's hard to need help.

If I have enjoyed the hospitality of the Host of this universe, Who daily spreads a table in my sight, surely I cannot do less than acknowledge my dependence.

The well-being of a man is that everyone be his slave.

I spent the ride wondering why some people were inclined to surrender their lives to prophets and gurus, as if the responsibility for making their own decisions was simply too much for them to bear, and the only way they could go on living was to become pawns in their own games, willing to believe . . . in something, in anything, as long as the weight of personal choice was lifted from their sagging shoulders and placed elsewhere.

Don't wait up for me tonight, for the night will be black and white.

Fuck you. I like you. I'm used to you. You are the one, you asshole. I can't meet someone new.