Quotes About Recovery

Possibly, he was in a state of second growth and recovery, and was constantly assimilating nutriment for his spirit and intellect from sights, sounds, and events which passed as a perfect void to persons more practised with the world. As all is activity and vicissitude to the new mind of a child, so might it be, likewise, to a mind that had undergone a kind of new creation, after its longsuspended life.

The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life. Nevertheless, like the greater part of our misfortunes, even so serious a contingency brings its remedy and consolation with it, if the sufferer will but make the best, rather than the worst, of the accident which has befallen him.

The act of self-expression—through writing a journal or letters—often enables a survivor to distance himself from his fears.

To live and imagine. That's the job left for those of us who've survived.

She plays music to heal herself, but nothing can heal her brokenness.

The thing was, if I had found a way to escape- even for just a little while- I knew the pain would be there waiting for me when I got back.

Hole... He grips Risa's hand tighter. Hole, Risa, hole... And she smiles Yes, Connor, she says. You're whole. You're finally whole.

does a sick society get so used to its illness that it can't remember being well? what if the memory is too dangerous for the people who like things the way they are?

He only wishes there were something that would heal the scars in his mind, which he can still feel. He sees his mind now as an archipelago of islands that he labors to build bridges between - and while he's had great success engineering the most spectacular of bridges, he suspects there are some islands that he'll never reach.

You don't undo thirteen years of brainwashing in two days.

This is my third time here, she confides in me. My third episode. Episode. That's what they call it. More like miniseries.

Pain is weakness leaving the body." We

I have no doubt that, one way or another, you'll fill the empty spaces left behind.

Does a sick society get so used to its illness that it can't remember being well?

No, don't forget it, but you have to process it and move on. Live your life. Otherwise he took your future away from you too.

Hope is a terrible thing to lose. Sometimes that wounded space gets filled with scar tissue, bitter, ugly, and angry.

Please stay broken, Callie," I pray. "Please stay broken as long as I am.

The good thing about shell shock is that you don't feel things in the moment. You just feel them later.

Hope can be bruised and battered. It can be forced underground and even rendered unconscious, but hope cannot be killed. The

Greyson Tolliver locked himself in his apartment, opened the windows to let in the cold, then crawled into his bed beneath heavy covers. It was what he had done when he was younger and the world got the better of him. He could disappear beneath the billowing comforter that protected him from the coldness of the world.

Yes, the Admiral is redeeming himself, and setting things right, bit by bit by bit.

I've had so many knives stuck into me, when they hand me a flower I can't quite make out what it is. It takes time.

What? You'd dare drink right after getting out of jail for intoxication?" That's when you need a drink the most.

Why do you insist upon destroying yourself?