Christina Baker Kline Quotes

My truth is that what doesn't kill you makes you weaker rather than stronger, although it makes you wiser.

I've been through cancer, divorce, loss and bereavement, but they are things most humans go through.

It takes an extraordinary toll on me to re-live my experiences, the horrors of my past and the pain I had to endure. And yet, I believe remembering is the only way to promote healing, to promote awareness and accountability.

Certainly after the tragedy in Neil's life, we were holding out hope for his recovery. It wasn't too promising at the time and obviously you get to the point of thinking that that is it.

There's many, many people who have been through a lot worse things than I went through. I lost my dad when I was 14 and to violence.

Some families can experience terrible tragedy and deal with it, and others not. I find those things fascinating.

My mom got shot. My dad got shot. Some of the craziest stuff. All that happened to me.

What did you do when the worst thing that could happen to you had already happened - how did you live life then? You had to hand it to Theo Wyre, just carrying on living required a strength and courage that most people didn't have.

What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.

There's nothing glorious about war. There's nothing glorious about holding your friends in your arms and watching them die. There's nothing glorious about having to leave your home for 6 to 8 months while your family's back here and you're away.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

One of the things that I try to do when I have a tough time with anything - whatever it may be - is just look at someone else's situation. Here in Staten Island, look, I have people that have children that haven't been back in their home for 18 months after Sandy. They lost every worldly possession.

You're not going to live your life unscathed.

I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.

This show has shown me how to throw a punch. But watching my future sister-in-law go through breast cancer has also shown me how to take one.

Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.

The darkest experiences in a human being's life allow that person to either go deeper and stay depressed or get the strength to stand up stronger than ever, and that's my case.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

War is too strange to process alone.

I got hit a lot. I'm glad I lived through it.

Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.

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

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

I think everybody has their pain. For me, the time that I really had to grow up was when I was 15 and I had my best friend die of leukemia. Watching somebody so strong go through that is definitely something that will give you a little bit of depth. There have been a lot of things that have happened in my life that has forced me to grow up.

When people go through tragic circumstances, it's not that there is no love there, but it's so hard to deal with and sometimes the gap starts to happen.