Tori Amos Quotes

What happened to me in Somalia doesn't define me.

All of us heal in time. The strongest are born again. We only keep the scars we choose to keep.

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

As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.

I was 25 when my first husband walked out of the house and left me with a 10-month-old. And a house payment and a car payment. But suffice it to say I have a lot of love in my life.

A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.

I pointed to the wound. "It's missing," I said. My grandmother smiled, and that was all it took for me to stop seeing the scar, and to recognize her again. "Yes," she said. "But see how much of me is left?

...A scar signifies past pain, a wound that did not heal as it ought. But it testifies, too, to survival...(Here be Dragons)

It's been stress and drama for a long time now, man. So much has happened. I got shot five times by some dudes who were trying to rub me out. But God is great. He let me come back. But, when I look at the last few years, it's not like everybody just did me wrong. I made some mistakes. But I'm ready to move on.

Time heals all wounds.

The book is called 'A House in the Sky' because during the very, very darkest times, that was how I survived. I had to find a safe place to go in my mind where there was no violence being done to my body and where I could reflect on the life I had lived and the life that I still wanted to live.

A lot of times when you go through a very traumatic situation and it's emotionally difficult to deal with you come back spiritually stronger. It changes you in a way.

I am not a victim. I am an angry survivor.

When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue to check yourself.

Rape is the most humiliating thing that can be done to you; it's the most vulnerable that you can be. But once I realized that, I became a stronger person and faced all my fears.

No day-to-day mishaps or indignities can really compromise your sense of self after you've survived a deep tragedy.

Most people are remarkably resilient. Even those who have been through war or great loss often find reservoirs of strength. But the legacy of trauma is a heavy burden to bear.

Real pain hurts so bad. When you've gone through something and you've overcome it, you're able to heal other people.

I think it's about not just the crisis you're in, but how do you get to the other side? How do we heal? How do we survive this experience while remaining hopeful instead of filled with despair? That's what interests me.

My dad was a great man, and I loved him, but he had some demons he fought. It was tough to see some of those things as a kid, but I believe God doesn't save you from things; he saves you through them.

My story is just my story, and it's not nearly as traumatic as some.

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

I want survivors to know that healing is possible.