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Quotes About Recovery

Scott let Maggie out the rear, clipped her lead, and hurried to catch up as Sims and another Fugitive dick brought out Estelle Rolley. Rolley looked like a walking skeleton. Street officers called this "the meth diet." Cowly
~ Robert Crais
shoulder cast climbed
~ Robert Crais
For the longest time, Mimi Warren did not move, then she looked at me and said, "I don't feel anything." I said, "Kid, you've had so much done to you that the part that feels went dead a long time ago." Maybe Carol Hillegas could fix it. Mimi cocked her head the way a bird will, as if I'd said something curious, and smiled. "Is that what you think?
~ Robert Crais
Joe Pike thought about that for a long time. Centuries. Then he said, "Someone had to bring her back.
~ Robert Crais
But if you find that your anger hasn't passed away in a reasonable amount of time or if weeks, months, or years after the hurtful event you are still ruminating over the injury, plotting revenge, or feeling the same level of pain, your anger has probably turned into a smoldering resentment. You are a prime candidate for choosing the forgiveness process.
~ Robert D. Enright
some pain never fully resolved. You just suppressed it beneath a façade of normalcy.
~ Robert Dugoni
The Tiny Wound.     It is small but painful and irritating. You try all sorts of medicaments, you com- plain, you scratch and pick at the scab. Doctors only make it worse, transforming the tiny wound into a grave matter. If only you had left the wound alone, letting time heal it and freeing yourself of worry.
~ Robert Greene
Space we can recover, time never. Napoleon Bonaparte, 1769-1821
~ Robert Greene
Then [Badger] fetched them dressing-gowns and slippers, and himself bathed the Mole's shin with warm water and mended the cut with sticking-plaster till the whole thing was just as good as new, if not better.
~ Kenneth Grahame
The impact had cut your upper lip in two, he had said, clean down the middle. Clean down the middle. Like a harelip.
~ Khaled Hosseini
My body was broken - just how badly I wouldn't find out until later - but I felt healed. Healed at last.
~ Khaled Hosseini
I wanted that, to move on, to forget, to start with a clean slate. I wanted to be able to breathe again.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Sai che il cratere prodotto da una bomba può diventare una piscina. Hai imparato che il sangue scuro è meno grave di quello chiaro.
~ Khaled Hosseini
I gestured my frustration. "I don't know. She's much better already. She wasn't talking half an hour ago. Look at her now." We all turned, finding Ceri sobbing quietly and drinking her tea in small reverent sips as the pixy girls hovered over her. Three were plating her long, fair hair and another was singing to her. Okay," I said as we turned back. "Bad example.
~ Kim Harrison
Oh. Shit. I breathed, arms shaking as I tried to push myself up, failing. That's okay. It's nice just to lie here.
~ Kim Harrison
That night had been the first time I'd felt alive, the adrenaline and endorphins making my body, still recovering from disease, feel…normal. It was then that I realized I'd risk anything to feel that way all the time—and most days, I did.
~ Kim Harrison
It hurts," he whispered, his hands falling to his sides. "All the time. Even when I try." Tears warmed my eyes, and I pulled back so I could look at him. "It will stop one day," I said as I gave his shoulders a squeeze. "Even without your trying, and then you'll feel guilty. After that, you'll wake up one morning, remember her, and smile.
~ Kim Harrison
I don't know. She's much better already. She wasn't talking half an hour ago. Look at her now." We all turned, finding Ceri sobbing quietly and drinking her tea in small reverent sips as the pixy girls hovered over her. Three were plating her long, fair hair and another was singing to her.
~ Kim Harrison
I had to start living again, even if it killed me.
~ Kim Harrison
I was broken, but I wasn't done.
~ Kim Harrison
Having been an employee all his life, and trapped in the mental, maximum security prison known as job security, he did not know how to recover from his failures or learn from his mistakes, much less how to start over to replace his paycheck and his pension.
~ Kiyosaki Robert
Den lange jærnbanereise har rystet sammen alle de forskjellige dele i vore hoder, det danser mange løse ting omkring derinde, vi kjører endnu; selv har jeg desuten et lite tillæg av mathet, av ubehag, feber. Det der må nok kureres med en bitte liten dram, sier jeg. Og så ser jeg min leilighet til å hælde kognak i et ølglass.
~ Knut Hamsun
Now, after my confession, I felt battered, like one of those dolls that always bounces back up when hit. But here's the thing - those silly dolls get hit all the more for it.
~ Kresley Cole
And the bleak one? Bowen? What's his damage? Why does he look so bad? He lost someone verra close to him. I'm sorry, she said softly. When did it happen? Early eighteen hundreds. And he still hasn't recovered? He's gotten worse. Lachlain rested his forehead against hers. It's our nature, Emma.
~ Kresley Cole