Broken Girl Quotes

“There are pieces of me that I may never find, never recover.
My search will continue.
But I am enough as I am.”
― Bradley Trevor Greive, Broken Girl: A true story

“I wanted to scream that I was sorry, that this wasn’t really me.
That this was my brain healing, this was only temporary.
But, then I’d just be screaming again.
And they hated that.”
― Bradley Trevor Greive, Broken Girl: A true story

“But, in my experience, the greatest casualty of a brain injury is friendship.
The defining symptom is loneliness.

I came home to watch my friends leave me.
One by one.”
― Bradley Trevor Greive, Broken Girl: A true story

“For once, I wasn’t a disappointment to old friends.

Just by being alive.
By finding my way back to them. I
had exceeded all expectations.

They gave me the most precious gift.
Letting me see myself through their eyes.

I was a living miracle.
The embodiment of hope.
Of victory against overwhelming odds.
I was the reason they got up every morning to do their impossible job.

It was beautiful.
I was beautiful.

I wished I could make my mum feel the way I felt in that moment.”
― Bradley Trevor Greive, Broken Girl: A true story

“In some ways I was a teenager again.
Excited and earnest and innocent and generous and envious and insecure and overconfident and vulnerable and curious and secretive and honest and hopeful and overwhelmed.

I still loved me.”
― Bradley Trevor Greive, Broken Girl: A true story

“I can’t recall how old I was when my mother told me her story.
Our story.
For the first time.

It was, as with most stories about women and men, a cautionary tale.”
― Bradley Trevor Greive, Broken Girl: A true story

“My lasagne appeared both scorched and somehow resistant to heat – a wilted throw cushion that had hidden in a casserole dish to escape a house fire.
‘I’ll bet it tastes great though,’ said Byron encouragingly.

It did not.”
― Bradley Trevor Greive, Broken Girl: A true story

“Girlchild in a hurry.

Life was never fast enough.
I wanted to gallop, wanted to fly.
Feel the wind run its fingers through my hair.”
― Bradley Trevor Greive, Broken Girl: A true story

“My mother taught me that intelligence was sexy, being independent was powerful, optimism and kindness were as essential as clean water, and, above all, to trust my heart.

My father taught me not to trust men.”
― Bradley Trevor Greive, Broken Girl: A true story