“Keep what you hold in your heart safe and strong.”

“That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart.”

“If it is very painful for you to criticize your friends, you are safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that is the time to hold your tongue”

“And it was good just to hold her and touch the softness of her skin. He wanted to hold her hard, not to hurt her but to keep her safe, to show her that he was strong enough to protect her. Her beauty was like fire and strange music, and he loved her.”

“Open your heart and your sad feelings to Him and the safe people He brings to you.”

“We're strange allies,
With warring hearts.
What wild-eyed beast you be?
The Space Between
The wicked lies we tell
And hope to keep us safe from the pain.”

“How do you keep safe when your whole day is as wide and empty as the sky?”

“Keeping you safe keeps me in shape.”

“Sometimes you seem to slip
and
don't know know what to do.
What a life…
what a life.
I keep holding on.
The heavier the load
the harder I fight.
No one
will
keep me down.
I keep holding on.
I keep holding on.
Until God decides.”

“This misfortune you find is of your own manufacture.
Keep hold of what you have, it will harm no other,
for hatred comes home to the hand that chose it.”