

“If we keep going in a straight line we'll get out of here. Walking one foot in front of the other, in the same direction, will always get you further than running around in circles. It's about the determination to keep walking forward.”
― The Comfort Book
― The Comfort Book

“You have survived everything you have been through, and you will survive this too. Stay for the person you will become. You are more than a bad day, or week, or month, or year, or even a decade. You are a future of multifarious possibility. You are another self at a point in future time looking back in gratitude that this lost and former you held on. Stay.”
― The Comfort Book
― The Comfort Book

“It’s strange how you give the people you love so much power over you.”
― Educated
― Educated

“The best thing about rock bottom is the rock part. You discover the solid bit of you. The bit that can't be broken down further. The thing that you might sentimentally call a soul. At our lowest we find the solid ground of our foundation. And we can build ourselves anew.”
― The Comfort Book
― The Comfort Book

“It was typically Hmong for patients to appear passively obedient - thus protecting their own dignity by concealing their ignorance and their doctor's dignity by acting deferential - and then, as soon as they left the hospital, to ignore everything to which they had supposedly assented.”
― The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
― The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
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