“ I've worked hard to remember it...The problem is I'm not sure what's real memory and what's my brain filling in details, like a guy whose heart stops and he thinks he sees a bright light. Except I'm s… Phil Klay
“ Someone once asked me how I hold my head up so high after all I have been through. I said it's because no matter what, I am a survivor NOT a victim. Patricia Buckley
“ Her wounds brought her a great source of power because they lived in the same place as her heart. Shannon L. Alder
“ After what she's been through, there really should be crime scene tape around her heart. John Mark Green
“ Forgiveness has nothing to do with absolving a criminal of his crime. It has everything to do with relieving oneself of the burden of being a victim--letting go of the pain and transforming oneself fr… C.R. Strahan
“ Two great things happened to me. One was that I survived. The other was that I met you, because I knew why Kamand Kojouri
“ You're a survivor because everyday you make a choice not to be governed by their harsh words or actions. No one has the right to take away your happiness. Assunta Harris
“ The way surviving hard winters makes a tree grows stronger, the growth rings inside it tighter Haruki Murakami
“ I choose to live by choice, not by chance; to make changes, not excuses; to be motivated, not manipulated; to be useful, not used; to excel, not to compete. I choose self-esteem, not self-pity. I choo… Miranda Marrott
“ For the human soul is virtually indestructible, and its ability to rise from the ashes remains as long as the body draws breath. Alice Miller
“ The thing that most people didn't understand, if they weren't in his line if work, was that a rape victim and a victim of a fatal accident were both gone forever. The difference was that the rape vict… Jodi Picoult
“ I can sit in denial of my life because in looking around I see how lucky I am to have survived it. K. Farrell St. Germain
“ The stamp is something left over from an inpatient hospital program. In some other program RELEASED used to mean a client was set free. Now it means a client is dead. Nobody wanted to special-order a… Chuck Palahniuk
“ Even in times of trauma, we try to maintain a sense of normality until we no longer can. That, my friends, is called surviving. Not healing. We never become whole again ... we are survivors. If you ar… Lori Goodwin
