Over Protectiveness Quotes

“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, The Enchanted Places

“The more you care, the more you fear.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“Blaise! Set her down! Now!" Falcyn
"What is your problem?" Medea
"He doesn't know where she's been." Falcyn
"Oh my God, Falcyn! He's not some two-year-old child and she's not a piece of candy he found on the floor that he stuck in his mouth!" Medea
"Well, that's how he's acting. He looks at her like he could eat her up." Falcyn
"And you're acting like a baby." Medea”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Dragonsworn

“You're stifling me brother! Can I not have a moment to myself? I swear it wouldn't surprise me to find you sitting atop me one day as I do my morning business in the privy, like some great mother hen!" Elf”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Deadmen Walking

“Amal, it's naïve to think that because somebody is ignorant they are a bad person. I feel so much for Leila because I know that she understands that she can be all she wants to be, not in spite of Islam, but because of it."
"It's her mum's stupid fault."
"Amal, Gulchin's just trying to bring up Leila in the only way she knows how. She married young. She never had the opportunity to gain an education. She can't read. She can't write. Her world has always been about raising her children and looking after her home. There's nothing wrong with that, if that's what she chooses."
"Yeah, but she's forcing it on Leila!"
"Which is wrong. But try to expand your mind and think about things from other people's perspectives. Everything is relative, If you want to understand a problem you look at its cause. You don't look at its manifestation."
"How is that supposed to make Leila feel better?"
She sighs, playing with my hair. "God knows... Sometimes, Amal, people are paralysed by their traditions and customs It's all they know, so you can't judge them for following and believing what they know."
"Come off it, Mum! Any moron would realize that she following her village's culture, not Islam. So for her to g around and tell the world it's Islam when it's the exact opposite is so dumb!" "Yes, I know that. But from her point of view I believe she thinks she is simply trying to protect Leila."
"Protect her from what? It's a crappy shopping spree"
"Everybody's scared of what they don't know, Amal.”
― Randa Abdel-Fattah, Does My Head Look Big In This?