Quotes About Dependency

Knowing I was your property made me safe, made me make sense in his world. It was okay that I was a 'handful' because you had me under control. Malachi, you didn't even blink. You didn't have to think about it. You knew what would reassure him, and it was treating me like an unbroken horse.

JOHNNA: What pills does she take? BEVERLY: Valium. Vicodin. Darvon, Darvocet. Percodan, Percocet. Xanax for fun. OxyContin in a pinch. Some Black Mollies once, just to make sure I was still paying attention. And of course Dilaudid. I shouldn't forget Dilaudid.

There's a lot of people who, a cigarette is about the only vacation they have.

He had given her too much. He had given her everything.

How, with all your education, do you come to be more needy than your mother?

A mere two days without eating and you passed out. It must be tough not being able to photosynthesize.

Money is a side effect of specialization. In a specialized society, most of the things you need, you can't make for yourself. If you want a potato or a pencil or a place to live, you have to get it from someone else. How do you get the person who grows the potatoes to give you some? By giving him something he wants in return. But you can't get very far by trading things directly with the people who need them.

will you still need me, will you still feed me when I'm sixty-four

He turned away and stumped on down the road leaving her to follow. The view from the back was that of an old man, thin, frail, intolerable to live with, intolerable to think of as one day not being there because then she would have nothing to live for herself.

Y es que René la dejaba libre y ella detestaba su libertad. Su libertad era peor que cualquier cadena.

Once in a mental hospital, a person grows used to the the freedom that exists in the world of insanity and becomes addicted to it.

Men. They thought they ruled the world but couldn't so much as take a step without, that very same night, seeking the opinions of their partners, lovers, girlfriends, mothers.

Love never comes just a little bit at a time, I thought, as I watched him, absorbed in contemplation of the Virgin. The previous day, the world made sense, even without love's presence. But now we needed each other in order to see the true brilliance of things.

Je suis comme un pont fragile, reliant à travers l'infini le passé et le présent. Je serre la main maternelle. Je ne peux pas la laisser échapper, car sans moi ma mère serait seule.

She is tired to the heart," Ying muttered. "She is tired because in this great house all feed on her, like suckling children.

All things are delicately interconnected.

Thou art figured blind, and yet we borrow our best sight from thee.

They self-inflict punishment on their own broken lives, put their faith in their possessions, in their jobs, or their wives.

The construction itself is an art, its application to the world an evil parasite.

Civilization is the art of creating useless needs.

The ideal person is not the one with whom one can be happy, but the one without whom one can't be happy. —Anonymous

Most of the other visitors were chained to their audio guides, looking only at what their little headsets told them was worth seeing.

Many citizens in Rome did not need to work: they lived off the handouts from the government.

I lost my guts out fighting your fights while you were hiding in bed and thinking up new ways of disowning me. Find another wet nurse.