Kimberly Quinn Quotes

As a man, if you lose your wife, it's a horrible experience, especially with kids. But when one person passes away and you're still alive, people still depend on you - that's what you have to lean on.

When I think about my teenage years, when my parents broke up, and feeling alone and being out of control and having to survive... And then other times when you've had to find your own way... that's always been a dominant theme in what I've done.

The only thing I know how to do is survive.

Today, I don't have any psychological scars, because I am a realist and an optimist. After all, I can't lose my legs twice.

I lost and I didn't die. I still had my health, family and people who loved me.

The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.

I want readers to rehearse that day when everything shatters and think through what they'll hang onto when that happens.

Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.

I think you make the best with what you've got, you know? Sometimes you have very little. And you just always try to rise to higher ground, because you're going to suffer one way or the other, so you just hope that you have strength and perseverance and good friends and faith, some kind of faith, to endure and move on to greener pastures.

It takes strength to make your way through grief, to grab hold of life and let it pull you forward.

My dad died when I was three so my mom had to raise four kids on her own, and I think there's a part of me that pulls upon having watched my mom do that our whole lives. She had to make it work.

When everything in a person's life is gone, ripped-out gone, it's not that you stay empty for so long, so you replace it with something else very quickly.

All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion.

Cancer is a very sad thing, but you can always take something from every experience.

Even as a child, I found a way to survive.

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.

It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.

I've seen so many women in my family, so many mothers, that have lost children in the war in such absurd ways. I wonder how they do it. How do they keep living? How do they keep smiling?

After my father died, we faced hardship but never asked anybody for help. We were self-sufficient.

I think when tragedy occurs, it presents a choice. You can give in to the void: the emptiness that fills your heart, your lungs, constricts your ability to think or even breathe. Or you can try to find meaning.

Everyone deals with loss. I'm no different, but we all find our ways of coming through things. Is it tough? Of course, but you find the strength to push on through.

As long as you don't fold up and curl up into a ball, you'll be all right.

I've realised that nothing that happens is so grim that life can't go on. Life always goes on, no matter what. Even in the grimmest situation, I see hope.

Families do not stop living. We have got to keep going on. This is what people do.

Every loss I take, I've accepted, and I move on.