Quotes About Coping

Humor was an antiseptic that cleaned the deepest of personal wounds.

What's the difference between bulimics and anorexics? I ask. Anorexics are anorexics all the time, she says, I'm only bulimic when I'm throwing up. Wow. She sounds just like my dad! I'm only an alcoholic when I get drunk. There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. Penelope gorges on her pain and then throws it up and flushes it away. My dad drinks his pain away. (107)

But it wasn't okay. It was about as far from okay as you can get. If okay was the earth, then I was standing on Jupiter. I don't know why I said it was okay. For some reason, I was protecting the feelings of the man who had broken my heart yet again.

What do you say to people when they ask you how it feels to lose everything?

People can do things completely against their nature, completely. It's like some tiny earthquake comes roaring through your body and soul, and it's the only earthquake you'll ever feel. But it damages so much, cracks the foundations of your life forever. So

What do you say to people when they ask you how it feels to lose everything? When every planet in your solar system has exploded?

Jesus, I thought, is there a better and more succinct definition of grief than It hurts a little to breathe, but we're okay?

There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. Penelope gorges on her pain and then throws it up and flushes it away. My dad drinks his pain away.

Baby, it's either laugh or cry and crying takes way too much energy. If you can't find humor in the shit life heaps on you, you really will grow miserable.

You have to learn to smile through your pain. Sometimes it's all we got.

There were only so many kicks a dog could take before it turned vicious.' (Acheron)

Baby, it's either laugh or cry and crying takes way too much energy. If you can't find humor in the shit life heaps on you, you really will grow miserable. (Syn)

If it is our destiny to be hit by the train, we will be hit by the train. The only thing we can change is how the train turns us into a hamburger.

My ma used to say that crying is good for you. Tears are the path that free your mind of sorrowful thoughts.

And you take care, too, Shahara. Remember the lies we tell ourselves to survive seldom bring peace to our souls. (Nero)

What will come, will come. It's how we deal with the shit in between that shapes us. (Savitar)

Hey, don't apologize. We all have shit to deal with. I have the same reaction sometimes, too. (Syn) I find that hard to believe. (Shahara) It's true. You ever want to see me really wig out? Hand me a candy bar. (Syn)

We don't have a choice in how or when our bad days will blindside us. But what we do choose is how we allow them to leave us once they're gone. You can use those moments as a catalyst to spur you on to greater things or you can let it be the event that breaks you and leaves you shattered and forever lost in darkness.

I just know that I'm not willing to let anything happen to you. When Nynia died, I was so lost and cold, and I haven't been warm since. Not until I felt your hands on me. The only way I've been able to cope without you is to bury what I feel, but I can't seem to do that anymore. When I'm with you all I can do is feel and need. (Talon)

Don't apologize. My ma used to say that crying is good for you. Tears are the path that free your mind of sorrowful thoughts." – Sundown

The lies we tell ourselves to survive seldom bring peace to our souls. -Nero

I was struggling with drugs, I had a lot on my plate, and you know, I was using unhealthy ways to kind of self-medicate and deal with a lot of heavy duty stuff in my life.

You can't use irony as a way of disengaging with the difficult or emotional aspects of life.

Life itself is dispare, so we must make darkness our ally