Quotes About Dependence

The problem with cell phones is that you can't slam them down into a cradle when you hang up. Your only option is to throw them, and if you do, they just skitter across the floor and crack their case. It's not satisfying at all. I close my eyes and bend down to pick up the pieces.

You okay?" Anton asks, looking at me like he's trying to figure out if I'm drunk. His plans depend on me. I look as blank as possible and hope that it freaks him out. No point in my being the only miserable one.

You're the only one I can talk to, Call," said Jasper. "You mean because I'm chained to this floor and can't get away?

And that is why you ought not dramatically vow to obey someone,' I say, a growl in my voice. 'They seldom ask for what you hope they will.

Te estaba imaginando a mi lado, Jude, dándome un montón de ridículas ordenes que, no obstante, obedecí.

Cardan was left to be suckled by a little black cat whose kittens came stillborn.' 'He survived on cat milk?' I exclaim. ... I think again of the globe I held in Eldred's study, of Cardan dressed in rags, looking to the woman in my chamber for approval, which came only when he was awful. An abandoned prince, weaned on cat milk and cruelty, left to roam the palace like a little ghost.

Being able to lean on someone else . . . maybe that was brave. I mean, if you leaned on someone, you had to trust that they wouldn't let you fall.

To alcohol, the cause and solution to all of life's problems.

When someone you loved was depending on your lie, it was perfectly easy.

Frances longed to Google it. How was she going to cope for ten days without instant answers to idle questions?

She was getting far too used to having someone cook and clean for her. This was what it must be like to be a celebrity. No wonder they were so charismatic and cheerful on talk shows. Joy could feel herself becoming more charismatic and cheerful by the day.

Actually, she was still in her pyjamas and all she'd achieved that morning was getting out of bed. She hadn't even managed to feed herself breakfast yet.

She literally felt twitchy without her phone.

leave me," Japhrimel snarled. "You will not leave me to wander the earth alone—breathe, damn you, breathe!

It's easy to get rid of people, Christophe. All you have to do is rely on them.

Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.

God does not demand that you and I have blind faith, but abandoned faith, a faith that trusts Him fully.

Confidence in God's character enables us to throw ourselves with complete abandon into His care.

Many of our trials serve as invitations to cling to God.

We were created to be continually dependent on God, yet we often strive for our independence.

Sometimes I forget how critical God is to every single day of my life.

The sense of dependence and the narcissism that were to mark, and sometimes ruin, Sylvia's relationships in the future clearly originated in her childhood fear of abandonment.

I did not see that there was much more I could do for Jeff. He was now totally in the hands of other people. They would decide what he wore, what he ate, where he slept, what medication, if, any, he received. My fatherly duties had been reduced to the provision of a few small services, none of them basic. As a father, my role had almost disappeared.

Our hero status is not dependant on our human might or power or even our human spirit; it comes from the power of His spirit.