Quotes About Recovery

He had been foolish enough to believe that as he recovered over the past few months the world might be recovering with him

I suppose poor Adams never recovered from the suicide of his wife, though it is arguable whether anyone ever truly recovers from anything.

It is safer to be part of a twelve-step group than a church.

When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.

These people who have lost someone look naked because they think themselves invisible.

I will not forget the instinctive wisdom of the friend who, every day for those first few weeks, brought me a quart container of scallion-and-ginger congee from Chinatown. Congee I could eat. Congee was all I could eat.

the only safe place for me to be, the place where everything would be the same, the place where no one would know about or refer to the events of my recent life; the place where I would still be the person I had been before any of this happened.

I can now afford to think about her. I no longer cry when I hear her name. I no longer imagine the transporter being called to take her to the morgue after we left the ICU. Yet I still need her with me.

Everything's going along as usual and then all shit breaks loose," one said. The injured man made no response, nor could he, since he had a trach.

The bereaved must be urged to "sit in a sunny room," preferably one with an open fire.

one of the promises we make to one another is that we will try to retrieve our casualties

Deeply and soundly. Doc gave me something to help me sleep and I didn't even know that I was taking it. It knocked me out for a solid eight hours and that's the most sleep I've had in weeks.

Nothing dreamed is ever lost, and nothing lost forever.

To love someone was not what she had expected. It was like falling from somewhere high up and breaking in half, and only one person having the secret to the puzzle of putting her back together.

After a certain point, a heart with so many stress fractures can never be anything but broken.

I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting.

You know, the mind is a remarkable thing. Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't hurting. It scars all the time, but it heals.

Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never really be whole.

Scars are just a treasure map for pain you've buried too deep to remember.

Things break all the time. Day breaks, waves break, voices break. Promises break. Hearts break.

when you [lose someone], it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, you have plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where all nerves are still a little raw

When someone dies, it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, you have plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where all the nerves are still a little raw.

And oh she had been broken. She hid it well, but Ross knew from personal experience that once you had put the pieces together, even though you might look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall

Once the world was pulled out from beneath your feet, did you ever get to stand on firm ground again?