Quotes About Dependence

God, I needed you, he murmured. I can't even tell you how many times I thought about this. The funny thing is, I don't need you any less now. I think I need you more. ~Shane~

I'll do it! No, you won't, Shane and Michael said, at virtually the same time. Shane continued. You're barely on your feet, Claire. You don't go anywhere, not without me. And me, Michael said. Hell, Eve sighed. I guess that means I have to go, too. Which I may not ever forgive you for, even if I don't die horribly.

Even in an apocalypse like this, surely running out of Coke qualified as a disaster.

Shane, honey, in Morganville, friends are the only things that keep you alive.

Stop using him, and start protecting him. I know he thinks he doesn't need it, but sometimes he does. Sometimes we all do.

For the first time in my life I have to depend

You expect me to do everything for you?' ' No. Just dress me. Please.

This is what you wanted, I tell myself. You wanted Melvin to come for you. Now you just have to live long enough to be useful to your kids. Stay alive. I can't depend on Sam now. I can't depend on anyone but myself. All my life has been coming to this.

Without Laura here, food is the only thing I love that loves me back.

I can't imagine anyone ever wanting to be alone with me that much.

I hope I never love someone so much that they could hurt me the way Langston was hurt.

It's good to be reminded that cities and states, courts and armies, writing and figuring, temples and cathedrals, all depended on those who stood to pound and knelt to grind.

I am wary of any gun, anywhere, anytime—except when it's in Stormy's hand. She could sit with her finger on the detonation button of a nuclear weapon, and I would feel safe enough to nap.

She can put her life in Mitch's strong hands and fall at once into a dreamless sleep. In a sense, that is what marriage is about-a good marriage-a total trusting with your heart, your mind, your life.

Everything now depends on mutual trust, Addison Goodheart. Sit down or go. There can be no third choice.

We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet; and amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us. —Maurice Maeterlinck

He doesn't know who pays for what he needs.

Humans tended to believe all that was required of them was a few mumbled words, then they were utterly content to leave the matter in the hands of God.

Hold that for me.

automation, for all its benefits, can take a toll on the performance and talents of those who rely on it.

I give up, God. You made me. You know how I am. I cannot keep my distance. Nor can I keep those I love alive. Only you can do that. Only you are God. I give over. I fall prostrate before you. What you see fit to bless me with I will rejoice over. When you takest away, I will turn to you for solace. For you are the one and only God.

Only farmers and the young, who live dependent upon change, understand what it is to know the continual flowering of life, however subtle.

Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It's a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks instead of what one is.

A faith based on miracles will quickly fade, dependent on the next miracle. Such an attitude cannot even be called faith.