Quotes About Coping

Reading was my escape growing up in Ohio. Both of my parents lost their jobs when I was a teen, and it was hard. But I always had my books. Reading gave me a way of living different lives.

Being bullied was the most difficult part of my early teen years.

I was a sci-fi addict when I was a kid and a teenager. Novels, graphic novels, movies, it was my way to deal with reality.

I have struggled with anxiety and depression since I was a teenager.

I started to get quite bad panic attacks when I was in my late teens, and I began running because I wanted to do everything I could before going down the medical route.

All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.

I remember talking to Magic the day I announced I had HIV. He was preaching, 'Do what your doctor tells you.' Well, I didn't have a doctor then, so I got down on my knees, and I prayed.

No one ever tells a story to help you figure out where to go when a door closes on you.

It's a rare and precious thing to be close to suffering because our society - in many ways - tells us that suffering is wrong. If it's our own suffering, we try to hide it or isolate ourselves. If others are suffering, we're taught to put them away somewhere so we don't have to see it.

If I am depressed, I do not like to talk to my parents or friends, instead I go and sit in a church or a temple which relaxes me immediately.

losing it on the world. But even if the

with a napkin. "Does it ever get better?" Celia set down her wine and put out a hand, taking Maggie's. "You know I'd be lying if I said it did, right?" Maggie nodded. "I know." "In time, though, you learn how to live with the pain. You learn how to live with all the memories, and you learn not to fear them. You learn to embrace them, to welcome them." Maggie started to cry. Celia got up and

It's been twenty years, Lieutenant. I've gone through it every day for twenty years. I'll get through these days the same way I got through those, one bad day at a time.

Tracy knew that some pain never fully resolved. You just suppressed it beneath a façade of normalcy.

She didn't have much choice. There wasn't anyone to comfort her, and so she'd never learned how to be comforted. She was trying.

You won't heal, never completely, but it will get better with time.

Devin swears like a sailor with Tourette's?

That's what our minds do. They protect us. They bury those memories that would cripple us, so that we can live with ourselves.

Surviving dangerous times require a sense of humor.

I was only going to say that abused people cling to their abusers, don't they? They've been brainwashed to believe there's no alternative." I was the bloody alternative, standing there, right in front of her!

Frankly, anybody who's going to kill themselves because of a bad review has no business writing a novel in the first place.

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But life's taught me things can always get worse than they are.

I ain't much for advice. Never been any good with words the way some men are. But I know, sometimes the tears just don't come. When the time comes to start healin', you oughta let yourself.