Quotes About Dependency

It is easy to understand why trust becomes a major issue for adults abused as children when you remember that trust is learned in childhood. As children, we were totally dependent upon our parents. We trusted that they would feed us, change our diapers, keep us safe and warm. When this trust is unknown or broken, it is difficult to restore.

What we don't have now we don't need now. Possibly His very withholding is in order that the boy may learn, at this crucial juncture in his life, to turn to God in prayer for a deeply felt need.

What we don't ha e now we don't need now. Possibly His very withholding is in order that the boy may learn, at this crucial juncture in his life, to turn to God in prayer for a deeply felt need.

Come over here and light me a cigarette, she'd said. I'd snuck a little inhale, and my mother had smiled. But then she'd said, Don't get started with something you won't be able to do without.

those phones have become adult pacifiers.

what I felt in that embrace was the knowledge that she would never be able to raise me, not by herself.

Desiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of all. As soon as you want somebody—really want him—it is as though you have taken a surgical needle and sutured your happiness to the skin of that person, so that any separation will now cause a lacerating injury.

David was catnip and kryptonite to me.

Soon you start craving that intense attention with the hungry obsession of any junkie. When the drug is withheld you probably turn sick, crazy and depleted not to mention resentful of the dealer who encourage this addiction in the first place but who now refuses to pony up the good stuff anymore despite that you know that he has it hidden somewhere God dammit because you know that he used to give it to you for free.

I'd clung to her like a tragic little koala

I need you. He licked her bruised lip to soothe it. I can't think straight without you. My world is all turned around, and I go through it in pain, wanting to hurt someone.

Xas reappeared and showed every sign of winding himself around Sobran permanently, like -Sobran complained - some parasitic vine.

He had no idea that he never went out of the house without her blessing going with him too, hovering, like a little echo of finished love, round that once dear head

If you weren't here I wouldn't see it, said Ingram, firmly believing it in the face of the fact that nothing ever escaped his acute vision. I see all this only through you. You are my eyes. Without you I go blind, I grope about with the light gone out. You don't know what you are to me, you little shining crystal thing—you don't begin to realise it, my dear, my dear sweet Found-at-Last.

I tried to remind myself that Rafe was not the problem. The problem, as Dr. Sterling explained it to me and as I myself knew, was that I was fucked up. Rafe was merely a makeshift solution I'd come up with, a pill I took to make the bad feelings go away. But now that he was not cooperating so well, now that he was refusing to be used this way, now that he was insisting that he wanted to be my boyfriend and not my panacea, he was no longer part of the solution. He was part of the problem.

Anybody who doesn't want or need something is dead. And anyone who does need something can be hurt.

Thus an explanation has arisen—the 'culture of poverty' thesis—which has painted the African American community, especially, as suffering from a cultural deficit of single-parent families, low educational aspirations, laziness, and 'welfare dependency', and which, together or singly, explains the continuing disadvantaged position of African Americans in particular.

Then the three minutes of black and white are over and what's left is the story of human beings and air, something we hardly ever notice or think about, something we couldn't live without.

he had a way of taking your hand which made it clear he'd have to be the one to let go.

I'm so crazy I can't know anyone anymore. I listen to voices, see people who aren't tangible to others; they sustain me, and I need them. Who's to say who's really here?

Come with me and let's start all over. I said no, and he got angry. Blamed Luke. The way you sneak out to see him, to be near him. You're attached to him, and it's sick, Camille. You're sick.

Prayer is an acknowledgment that our need of God's help is not partial but total.

He viewed her as a farmer views a prize cow: she was someone who would give him what he wanted – namely, a large family – and he demanded she respect his need for utter subservience in the relationship

The whole business of smoking is like forcing yourself to wear tight shoes just to get the pleasure of taking them off.