Chevy Stevens Quotes

I had a motorcycle accident, and I had my garage burn down with most of my vehicles. And I've had really bad relationships that I've been in and out of. They've left their mark.

As crime writers, we put these characters, year after year, book after book, through the most horrendous trauma, dealing with grief and death and loss and violence. We can't pretend that these things don't affect these characters; they have to. If they don't, then you're essentially writing cartoons.

I've always been more interested in what happens after the bad thing has happened - the fallout of the bad thing, when people are already damaged. I'm less interested in seeing people when they're fine and following their journey to becoming damaged.

Before the old wound can be healed, there is fresh blood flowing.

People who have been through trauma, their souls are hurting.

There's a difference between being injured and being hurt.

Just because your leg might heal doesn't mean it doesn't feel broken. It doesn't mean that a car hitting your body doesn't hurt like the same it would hurt if a car hit your body.

It's harder to heal than it is to kill.

So to really be able to dive into what does it mean to be broken by an experience, and I developed it just through research and talking and understanding the truth of what it means to lose everything.

I have irrational fears, and they all go back to losing my father as a kid. I've never gotten over it.

However, if you listen to me I think you can hear years of abuse in my voice - both bad abuse and good abuse.

Everyone gets hurt, but I've probably had the most injuries.

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.

Some things you just don't get over.

I saw a great many men die afterwards, some suffering horribly, but I do not recall any death that affected me quite so much as that of this first victim in my platoon.

Sometimes history reads like a catalogue of post-traumatic stress.

And the general shot my sister. I could not look at her, but I remember the sound of when she hit the ground. I hear that sound when things hit the ground still. Anything.' If I could, I would make it so nothing ever hit the ground again.

One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence.

Sometimes broken people stay broken.

If all the people who have been hurt by the war were to exclude joy from their lives, it would almost be as if they had died.

The one thing all that battle taught me, is that no one walks away without scars. No one. (Bad Moon Rising)

People can't seem to get it through their heads that there is never any healing or closure. Ever. There is only a short pause before the next "horrifying" event. People forget there is such a thing as memory, and that when a wound "heals" it leaves a permanent scar that never goes away, but merely fades a little. What really ought to be said after one of these so-called tragedies is, "Let the scarring begin.

This you have to understand. There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him back something broken.

Let everyone see the blood,' he said. 'Don't clean it up. That's the only way people remember.'... I could see the blood inside my head. It was with me forever, whether or not I wanted to forget.

Grief doesn't fade. Grief scabs over like my scars and pulls into new, painful configurations as it knits. It hurts in new ways. We are never free from grief.