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Quotes About Recovery

And all he'd really bruised was her pride.
~ Nora Roberts
soon as the medicine makes you well.
~ Nora Roberts
We had an injured wolf brought in a couple weeks ago. Clipped by a car. Matt saved it. We've gotten a lot of hits on the pictures there, and the column Tansy wrote for it.
~ Nora Roberts
I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Help me give up my addiction to Hope.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Hitting bottom isn't a weekend retreat, it's not a goddamn seminar. Stop trying to control everything and just let go. Let go
~ Chuck Palahniuk
A couple drinks. A couple aspirin. Repeat.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
All I want is somebody to ask me what happened. Then, I'll get on with my life.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Because I can't hit bottom, I can't be saved.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
It doesn't matter for crap that you've got three years of sobriety or that you finally look good in a two-piece bathing suit or you've met that perfect someone and you've fallen deeply, wildly, passionately in love. Today, as you pick up your dry cleaning, fax those reports, fold your laundry, or wash the dinner dishes, something you'd never expect is already stalking you.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
She'd lived through something the rest of them could never imagine. So much torture and horror that she didn't need to tell people about it. She'd never need drama or joy or pain ever again.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
He was the kind of boy any young girl should date while she's still able to recover.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
What do you do when your entire identity is destroyed in an instant? How do you cope when your whole life story turns out to bw wrong?
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Kill your­self or don't kill your­self, but stop tor­tur­ing me. I'm try­ing to move on with my life.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Each wedding picture was less of a memento than a scar. Proof of some horror movie scenario Katherine Kenton has survived.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
One step to the sink, and I calmly begin to scrub my dripping hands, careful to pick and scrape the words sorrow and tragedy from where they're lodged beneath each fingernail.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Everyone has something wrong. And for a while, her heart just sort of flatlined.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The first step is to admit you're powerless. You have an addiction, and you can't stop. The first step is to tell your story, all the worst parts. Your lowest lows.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The first step is to admit you're powerless. You have an addiction, and you can't stop. The first step is to tell your story, all the worst parts. Your lowest lows. The
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Solo después del desastre podemos resucitar.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Grief is like a cut in a strange place. You never know when you're going to bump into it, make it hurt again.
~ Chuck Wendig
Right now, the economy is a whole lot like a fairly good-looking brain-dead chick in a persistent vegetative coma. You can't really wake her up, but there's things she's still good for.
~ Cintra Wilson
Right now, the economy is a whole lot like a fairly good-looking brain-dead chick in a persistent vegetative coma. You can't really wake her up, but there's things she's still good for. To
~ Cintra Wilson
Muscles that are especially vulnerable should be treated before you play as well as afterward.
~ Clair Davies