Support Systems Quotes

“My father told me about you. I am here to make sure you feel comfortable. Would you like to come out and meet the others?”
― J.L. Marrain, The Gridd: Perils of the Lightholder

“And while a bald head and a looped ribbon were seen as badges of courage and hope, her reluctant vocabulary and vanishing memories advertised mental instability and impending insanity. Those with cancer could expect to be supported by their community. Alice expected to be an outcast.”
― Lisa Genova, Still Alice

“The lives we have chosen not to live

are enough to fill the whole day’s train
with ghosts and ghosts and ghosts.

But there are also people
who have known you forever,

which is yet another kind of sadness
because you’ve only just met.”
― Jenny Molberg, Refusal: Poems