Karan Mahajan Quotes

I'm the one who got hit by that car, not you,' I tell him. 'Don't act like you're the victim here. You made choices I didn't ask you to make. I'm not sure anyone asked you to make them.' I'm screaming the words, not caring that the entire world can probably hear me. 'You think I like limping everywhere I go? I don't. I'm the victim! Be honest with me! You didn't care about me enough to trust me. I gave you my heart, but it wasn't enough.

When you're traumatized, you pick out one thing you remember more than anything else.

The Joker is a psychopathic, mass-murdering, schizophrenic clown with zero empathy. Last week I probably slept an average of two hours a night. I couldn't stop thinking. My body was exhausted, and my mind was still going.

I couldn't help thinking about my dream, with Annabeth crumpled and lifeless in Luke's arms. Here I was rescuing baby monsters, but I couldn't save my friend.

After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any moment.

I cannot think of a single word to describe what we feel. I think we all feel it, to varying degrees. Perhaps in some other language there is a word for 'the world is terribly wrong.' That feeling of stun and unbelief and abandonment and shock and horror and distress.

I remember being in intensive care, looking at the clock and thinking 'don't go to sleep, don't go to sleep'. I can laugh about it now but I was petrified.

The trauma of the whole thing has been humbling, and for the first time, I'm a little bit wobbly.

I don't think people fully appreciate the trauma associated with losing. It takes a lot out of you, year after year.

I am back in LA now. And I keep thinking back to my time in New York after the bombings.... I was crying so much I could not see, and the other diners joined in, and I thought, What do you do with such atheistic evil?

Without thinking, I grab Al's arm and squeeze it as tightly as I can. I just need something to hold on to. Blood runs down the side of Christina's face and splatters on the ground next to her cheek. This is the first time I have ever prayed for someone to fall unconscious.... Al frees his hand and pulls me tight to his side. I clench my teeth to keep from crying out.

I found that the only way I could control this sorrow was not to think of [it] at all, which was almost as painful as the loss itself.

I feel dead, wasted, awful, broken and useless. It's not the kind of feeling you forget.

A study of the Great Malady; horror of home.

It took a lot of water to down just that f-king bat's head, let me tell you. It's still stuck in my f-king throat, after all these years. People all over the world say, 'You're the guy who kills creatures? You still do it? You do it every night?' It happened f-king once, for Christ's sake.

Horror films do not prepare us for the hours lost in searching after one clear thought.

I've read that under trauma, that you have this ability to kind of disconnect from the experience.

I don't even like the word politics. It implies something underhanded and I think we need less government.

I'm allergic to sad memories. It's the worst.

Anyone who gets divorced goes through a lot of pain ... I don't think I want to get married again.

I was in analysis for years because of a traumatic childhood; I was breast-fed through falsies.

That's the whole trouble. When you're feeling very depressed, you can't even think.

Anyone of my generation who trusts government probably has an I.Q. that would make a good golf score.

To be able to shut off your emotions drastically, I think that the only way you can do that is if you have some of sociopathic qualities.

I broke down. I hid under the bed because I was afraid that somebody was going to come for me. I don’t know who that someone was but I was just so scared. Not a single person at any level of government took any note of me. No one checked to see if I had a place to live or food to eat, and at 14, I found myself basically on my own.