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Quotes About Care

I carefully crawled on to the side of his chest, careful not to knock out his tubes, and fell asleep. I could hear the sounds of his body working. The creaky floor sounds from his tummy. The swish of his blood. The pounding of his heart. It sounded like I was swimming and listening to the sounds of water beneath the surface of my father. This was my dad.
~ Catherine Hernandez
As we grew up, my brothers acted like they didn't care, but I always knew they looked out for me and were there!
~ Catherine Pulsifer
We should all be much more careful with each other`s hearts.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
I just feel like it's our job to take care of them. You know? And when you take care of someone, you should love them the way they are. Not try to make them different.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
Ah, yes. That. The sin of being happy or excited. According to my father, we must guard carefully against such things. According to my father, these emotions are the equivalent of dancing on out fifth-floor window ledge. Clearly inviting a nasty fall.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
No," he said. "Go." He snapped the last snap of Maya's onesie and lifted her by her underarms, setting her on her freshly dry butt in her crib. Then he took me by both shoulders. "I'll take tomorrow off work. I'll call it in as a family emergency. I'll put the baby's car seat in my car, and Maya and I will drive out to Bakersfield and pick up your mom.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
suit the feelings of those we love and want to protect.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
Well, at least you worry about nice things, like whether I'll have a good time.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
Why do I do that?" "Do what?" "Try to take responsibility for everything and fix everybody.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
We can be angels to each other. We are angels to each other, all the time. And we should be. No divine intervention required. Just a sense of staying together and looking out for each other. You know. Safety in numbers.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
So you're saying you don't feed something in a situation where it would be a big disaster for it to grow.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
I was wondering if Chester was going to have any kind of memorial. I figured probably not. Clearly his sons wanted nothing to do with him. Ellie was a new grandmother, and not wanting to travel. And who else was there? Obviously no one, or I wouldn't have been roped into taking over his care. It felt like the best possible advertisement for kindness. Treat people well, otherwise you might die and no one will notice or find it especially relevant to their life.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
People who care about the spiritual formation of children must be concerned about the spiritual formation of the parents and their finding of a place in the faith community.
~ Catherine Stonehouse
I may hurt you, I will not harm you...
~ Catherine Taylor
If you want to kill yourself, do not use us as your knife.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
I abandoned her. It's the one capital crime of fatherhood. Mothers can fail a thousand different ways. A father's only job is: do not abandon this child.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Punishment doesn't mean you aren't loved. On the contrary. You can only punish someone you love.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Very well, but I have tried to be a generous narrator and care for my girl as best I can. I cannot help that readers will always insist on adventures, and though you can have grief without adventures, you cannot have adventures without grief.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
We treat our stone wives with much more care than they treat their warm ones, anyway. I personally dust mine once a week, and I know Khaamil gives them presents when I am not looking. These are yours - they are in your care, and you must be faithful.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Seems like someone should have thought of a rule that goes Do not Fuck Your Only Planet to Death Under Any Circumstances . Seems like that should have been Rule Number One.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Of all the Fairy strangeness she had known, this seemed suddenly both the strangest and least strange of all. How she would have liked to be looked after like that, cared for and watched over. And yet at the same time, she understood the Whelk, and wished she could grow big enough to hold on to everyone she loved at once. To keep them safe and with her always and know their secret needs well enough to answer them.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
I have tried to be a generous narrator and care for my girl as best I can. I cannot help that readers will always insist on adventures...
~ Catherynne M. Valente
I'm quite civilized, I promise,' Manythanks sniffed, smiling. 'Wairwulves are cultured. We have choirs and charity races and rotary clubs. It's when we're human that you must take care.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
A basic moral imperative is in play here. If you can protect a child, you must.
~ Catherynne M. Valente