Quotes from Dana Reeve

With grief, you know, the only way to get through it is through it.

Chris was very comfortable in the public eye and thrived in that kind of environment. I, less so.

Working on problems and self-examination is a sign of strength.

I think the idea of time travel is very seductive.

Sacrifice always seems to imply a bitterness attached to it. But I don't feel bitter about the choices I've made. Yes, I sacrifice a job because I made certain family decisions, but I don't regret it.

Chris and I used to say, when he had his accident, 'Well, this is probably the worst thing that's ever happened to either one of us, but at least we had each other to go through it with.'

I think Chris' favorite role was in 'Remains of the Day,' which was the Merchant Ivory film that he shot not long before his accident, a couple years before. He loved working with Merchant Ivory.

We have home movies of Chris playing the piano with Will on his lap. One of the things that made my life so full was putting Will to bed and hearing Chris downstairs improvising.

Chris, boy, was he ever resilient, and was he ever someone who would never give up and had tremendous discipline, and he set goals and met them.

Hope is a real thing. It's not pie in the sky.

There's a formula Chris and I used all the time. When you least feel like it, do something for someone else. You forget about your own situation. It gives you a purpose, as opposed being sorrowful and lonely. It makes me feel better when things are too hard for me.

I get little moments all the time, all I want to do is call my mom.

In the mornings I drop my son off at school and then head to work. I am done at work by 2:00 P. M. and can head home.

There's not a lot of creativity when you're dealing with a disability, there's not a lot of freedom and spontaneity.

We both felt it was important for us to remain a couple. I didn't want to be just his nurse.

Christopher believed that to overcome any adversity, no matter how challenging, you need to go forward each day with strength, determination and compassion.

I don't live in the city, I don't work in a high-risk environment, and I am not a smoker. So it was never anything that would occur to me that I would get lung cancer, but the more I have learned about lung cancer is that it is becoming much more random, and it is striking women who are under 50 and are non-smokers and not in a risk environment.

Your emotional state has a tremendous amount to do with sickness, health and well-being. For years, my husband and I lived on -- and because of -- hope. Hope continues to give me the mental strength to carry on.

Mv mother was so literate and literary.