Scott Westerfeld Quotes

Every single thing I do... is just me surviving.

People are all vulnerable in so many different ways. We go into survival mode a lot of times.

I'm surprised that I've survived my own dysfunction, really.

I've got over so much. Mum wouldn't want anything to come into my life that would make me fragile again.

I did not know that for the things that unhorse you, for the things that wreck you, for the things that toy with your internal tide - against those things, there is no conventional guard.

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

I still go through times when I'm down. I don't feel like I'm that strong woman that people think I am today.

Dancers dance through their pain I shrink from mine.

When it's too difficult to keep swimming, float.

The hardest thing you can do is smile when you are ill, in pain, or depressed. But this no-cost remedy is a necessary first half-step if you are to start on the road to recovery.

Whatever you do to recover from a loss, people will be critical because they believe that the only way to recover is their way. And you will even run into some people who should be run into by rhinos because they actually don't want to see you get over your tragedy at all; grief is a spectator sport for them.

I've suffered from pretty dark depressing times, and it's probably - not probably - it is the reason why I chose to lead a healthy lifestyle.

Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.

I think there is pressure on people to turn every negative into a positive, but we should be allowed to say, 'I went through something really strange and awful and it has altered me forever.'

I was in a very deep, dark slump, and I needed to find a way to get myself out of it. I had to force myself back out into life, back out into experiencing things.

I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.

Some people are too prideful to go out and reach out to people to help them in that situation because it's just such a dark time.

I was badly bullied when I was in the seventh grade - relentlessly, mercilessly - by a group of 12-year-old girls. And it left me with a determination that no matter what, I had to throw my shoulders back, stick out my chin, and project a sense that no one and nothing could hurt me. That turned out to be a life-changing mistake.

When I was growing up, I was obviously gay, and I got heckled every day of my life. The only way I knew how to survive was to make people laugh. If I could make them laugh, I wouldn't get hung in a locker for two hours. That's a blessing.

Listen, it's not nice to have your mum kill herself, that is difficult. But at the end of the day, it happened a long time ago. My mother was, I hope, not the reason that I have been successful. It's not as simplistic as 'My mum killed herself; I've got to prove myself.' I was very lucky that my parents took an interest in me.

Life's fairly excruciating. Painful things happen. Every now and then, you drag yourself out of the stream and stand on the bank gasping for air. I think that's how I work.

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

When things have gone really wrong in my life, I've cried like a child. I have really, really cried. I cry it out. Two-three days I cry, and then I'm like, enough, time to deal with reality and figure a way out. This is the way I have dealt with everything.

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

Kurt had this dumb suicidal ideation - that's what I called it. I thought if we could live through this, we could live through anything.