Quotes from Jeff Bauman

Isolation is huge when you go through something traumatizing. You tend to want to isolate and kind of hide in your hole and kind of just go away.

I just want people to know that I'm OK, and if I can get through something this traumatic, anybody can get through what's going on in their life.

I have bad days, days when I just don't want to do anything. Just kind of want to lay in bed.

I'm doing great, and I just gotta keep going.

I don't drink and I don't party. And I take care of myself mentally, and that's huge.

Sometimes walking to the end of the street with my prosthetics feels like running a mile.

By some crazy twist of fate I was able to remember the moments leading up to the bombings, and in the end, it helped people. I'm not a hero; I did what any normal person would do.

I realized I had to work on all aspects of my recovery, the spiritual, mental and physical.

I was a normal guy with a job at Costco, thinking about going back to school. I played sports; I hung out with my friends. I wanted to make something of myself, but I didn't know what.

My nerves are always, you know, shooting off and it's just, you know, it's very different.

I have so much work to do every day to get back to my normal life that I can't afford to be angry, even at the bombers. I can't keep looking backward.

Sometimes I don't fully accept it. It's tough. I miss doing old things. I miss shooting hoops with my friends.

I wish I wasn't the face of the victims - three lost near the finish line and hundreds injured - because then everyone would forget about me, and I could recover in peace, and at my own pace.

Yeah, I get a lot of donations. It's a lot. I'm getting money all the time.

She liked to drink. Some in the family want to make more of it than that like maybe she needed drinking to take the edge off, but that was the way I always saw it: Mom liked to drink.

In the movie, I deal with the loss of my legs and adjusting and trying to become a new person, essentially.

There's always gonna be some pain, I think, because my body's going to be like, 'Where are your lower legs?'