A Different Kind of Normal Quotes

“Seasons are like life. Some seasons are better than others. Some have more sun and rainbows. Others have storms and tornadoes. Some have both. You have to accept that, and bring colour and light to the season you're in as best you can, and always look forward to the next season.”
― Cathy Lamb, A Different Kind of Normal

“When I died, all I felt was peace. I saw a friend of mine named Maggie Shoes, too, but I can’t talk about her right now. There was that white light that people talk about, too. It was soft. It was safe. It was happy. I felt the happy. I took a visit to heaven. A short one, and I came back.” He smiled at everyone, solemnity in a day of celebration. “Live free, galaxy walkers, but take the fear out of death for yourselves ’cause I already went, and dudes and dudettes, there ain’t nothin’ to fear.”
― Cathy Lamb, A Different Kind of Normal

“As a hospice nurse, this is what I’ve noticed: At the end, for the vast majority of people, it’s about one thing. Love. That’s it. That’s all. Love.”
― Cathy Lamb, A Different Kind of Normal

“Sometimes healing is used to help dying people into heaven. The women in our family, even Faith herself, have always known this, and used it when they had to.” She kissed me. She was broken. She had lost her husband, her best friend, her life.”
― Cathy Lamb, A Different Kind of Normal

“Some people hate that assisted death is legal; some staunchly defend it. And after all the outraged hoopla we’ve had here in Oregon, very, very few people actually do it. We control the pain and symptoms of the terminally ill, and they die naturally. The ones who do elect for an assisted death often share the same characteristics as General Ross: independent, educated, strong-willed.”
― Cathy Lamb, A Different Kind of Normal

“When his heart stopped, Boat lifted that huge head off Arty’s chest and licked his face. He licked Margaret’s face, then gingerly left the bed with the help of two great-granddaughters and creaked over to a corner and stood staring up at it, the bell on his pink collar ringing. He didn’t move for thirty minutes; he stood and stared at that corner. He barked a few times. I knew what he was doing. I’d seen it before with animals and their owners.”
― Cathy Lamb, A Different Kind of Normal

“I have loved being a hospice nurse. It is not an easy job, but it is an honor. It is a privilege. It’s a calling. That said, I don’t know how much longer I can do it.”
― Cathy Lamb, A Different Kind of Normal

“Packing up a suitcase is not unusual in hospice care. Talking about an upcoming trip is also not unusual. Through the fog of disease and effects of treatments, the patients often know they’re going somewhere else.”
― Cathy Lamb, A Different Kind of Normal

“Let's face it. you become a deeper person amidst adversity. You become a more perceptive, strong, resilient person when life is not handed to you on a silver platter held by a butler.”
― Cathy Lamb, A Different Kind of Normal