#protective

I know you love her. I’ve never seen you act this crazed in your life. I get that. But Nan hates her. If you love Blaire then protect her from the venom that is dripping from your sister’s fangs. Or I will. ↗

— Abbi Glines

#threat #life

There are a hundred ways in which a boy can injure—if not indeed kill—himself. The more adventurous he is and the greater his initiative, the more ways he will find. If you protect him from each of the first hundred, he is sure to find the hundred and first. Though most men can look back on their boyhood and tremble at the narrowness of some of their escapes, most boys do in fact survive more or less intact, and the wise father is the trusting father. ↗

— Christopher Milne

#over-protectiveness #parenting #trust #men

It's going to be okay. Donny doesn't know it yet, but he just picked a fight with the wrong bunch of guys." -- Julian Darcangelo ↗

— Pamela Clare

#romantic-suspense #romantic

I realised how paranoid and guarded and not trusting - walled-in - I had become. Not consciously so, but just this armour that I kind of have, protective armour. It's not for my friends or family, but for being.outside in the world, always on guard. ↗

— Jennifer Aniston

#armour #become #being #consciously #family

It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story. ↗

— James Baldwin

#admire #america #because #been #his

We're great, Jo and me. We're pals, and I guess sex has a lot to do with it. She's also brilliant at clearing a room. So protective, so devoted. I can't believe how much she loves me. ↗

— Ron Wood

#believe #brilliant #clearing #devoted #great

I'm very protective of how much I let people see. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#i #much #people #protective #see

Nudity is who people are at the most interesting point of the evening, when they take off their protective layer, when no one is watching. ↗

— Bridget Fonda

#interesting #layer #most #nudity #off

A covenant made with God should be regarded not as restrictive but as protective. ↗

— Russell M. Nelson

#god #made #protective #regarded #restrictive

Once you have kids, you think like a parent. You get a lot more protective. ↗