Quotes About Recovery

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)

Listen. I don't know how or when My grieving will end, but I'm always Relearning how to be human again.

So I wonder: Will a person who has drowned, Or almost drowned, always feel Like they're drowning, Even after they've been saved?

I can't remember how to cry.

And that's when I knew that I was going to be okay.

My hopes and dreams floated up in a mushroom cloud. What do you do when the world has declared nuclear war on you?

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?

The abused can become abusers. It's a tragic progression.

That which doesn't kill us just requires a few centuries of therapy. (Caleb) Yeah, and usually a lot of Tylenol. (Nick)

Then why don't you and Bubba have girlfriends? (Nick) I don't want the drama of it. After the last one burnt up all my clothes with my Jack Daniel's Black Label collection and tried to decapitate me with my CDs, I decided I'd take a hiatus for a bit. (Mark)

How do you feel? (Maggie) Like I got hit by a bus that decided to back up a few times and make sure it finished the job. I think it must have ground its tires on my ribs during the last run. You know, just in case I might actually want to breathe again in my lifetime. (Wren)

As Nietzsche said, 'that which doesn't kill you– '(Alexion) Will only require brief hospitalization. And if you're a Dark-Hunter, just a good day's sleep. (Danger)

Did you see a doctor? (Syn) Yeah. It'll heal. (Cruel) Did your mom say anything? (Syn) Clean the blood out of the carpet before it sets. What could she say? Better me than her. (Cruel)

And you haven't been betrayed yet, Nick. You don't know what that's like. What it does to you. The scars it leaves that never fade. (Ambrose)

Funny how internal scars never healed. They were the souvenirs of the past.

It wasn't a gun wound. I just fell. (Zarek) No offense, but you'd have to fall of Mount Everest to have those kinds of wounds. (Astrid) Yeah, maybe next time I'll remember to take my climbing gear with me. (Zarek)

I just can't, Nick, okay? Now, please give me a second to lie here in silence and bleed." – Caleb

If it makes you feel any better, this isn't my first apocalypse. There is hope.

I'm giving you that chance now. (Stryker) It's too late. Too many centuries have passed. There was a time when I lived only to hear a kind word from your lips. But that ship sank under an assault of bitterness that no amount of charm or guile will recover. (Zephyra)

I'm so sorry! Are you okay? (Shahara) Other than the fact that I feel like my rib just punctured a lung, sure, I'm all right. (Syn)

That which doesn't kill us just requires a few centuries of therapy.

If it makes you feel any better, this isn't my first apocalypse. There is hope." – Sasha "Obviously the world survived." – Abigail "Yeah, not really. It kind of blew everything back to the Stone Age. The good news is, people are resilient, and that which doesn't kill you merely serves as a cautionary tale for others. It also makes one hell of a bedtime story, especially if the Crypt-Keeper's your audience." – Sasha