Medicine Man Quotes

“I am calm. I’m cool. I’m a cucumber.”
― Saffron A. Kent, Medicine Man

“That’s the worst part of being mentally ill: you don’t know the real you because the illness and the meds fuck with everything.”
― Saffron A. Kent, Medicine Man

“I met you and every thought I had became yours.”
― Saffron A. Kent, Medicine Man

“In most cases, mental illness is not the absence of rational thought, but the presence of irrational ones, despite all rationality.”
― Saffron A. Kent, Medicine Man

“Because I was born with more than blood in my veins. I was born with strength. I was born with courage to fight. I'm a warrior.”
― Saffron A. Kent, Medicine Man

“a hero isn’t someone who doesn’t fall. A hero is someone who knows how to rise.”
― Saffron A. Kent, Medicine Man

“You make me believe. In magic. In fairy tales. In fate. In falling and rising. In the fact that I can do it. I can be what and who you need me to be. You make me believe I was born for you.”
― Saffron A. Kent, Medicine Man

“Keeper of the black gates of Heartstone has a dick that makes me think of the white gates of heaven.”
― Saffron A. Kent, Medicine Man

“Why’s it so hard? Why’s everything so hard for me? It’s not supposed to be this hard, is it? Getting up from the bed. Freshening up. Going to get breakfast. Eating. Saying hi to people. Smiling. Laughing. It shouldn’t be this hard. It can’t be. It’s me. I’ve got it all wrong somehow. I’ve got everything wrong.” Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.”
― Saffron A. Kent, Medicine Man

“Because the thing is that it’s not my fault either. That I was born this way. It’s not my fault that sometimes things get just a little bit harder. It’s not my fault that every day I fight a silent battle. I implode. I don’t make a sound. I don’t say a word. I don’t let anyone know what I’m going through. It’s like I’m blaming myself. And I don’t want to do that anymore. I told you because it’s not my fault. It’s not my fault that some days my goal is just to make it through the day. While others make plans to ace an interview or a test or go see a movie or for a walk, I make plans to just get through the day. It’s not my fault. It’s my achievement. It’s my strength that I fight. Someone told me that I’m a warrior, and that I’m ashamed of it. So this is me…” I nod, unfisting my hands. “Not being ashamed. This is me asking for help.”
― Saffron A. Kent, Medicine Man

“I remember screaming, and shouting. So much shouting and all of it was coming from me. I knocked down the machines. I ripped out the tubing attached to my veins. They wouldn’t stop getting closer though. Closer and closer. Descending. The nurses and the orderlies. Like they were going to suck my soul right out of my body. Like they were dementors – the soul-sucking creatures from Harry Potter. Instead of performing the Dementor’s Kiss, however, those creatures stuck me with a needle. It came out of nowhere.”
― Saffron A. Kent, Medicine Man

“I know people say life is short, and in some ways, it is. But it is too long if you’re living it alone. Don’t hesitate to ask for help. Don’t think that you’re weak just because you stumble. Everyone stumbles. Don’t isolate yourself just because you have to take a pill every day. You’d be doing yourself a disservice. Live your life the best you can and ask for help. People aren’t made to live their lives alone.”
― Saffron A. Kent, Medicine Man

“His slight smile broadens, stretching his pink lips, making him look so classically handsome and appealing and… devilish, that I want to throttle him.
Happy thoughts.
Peaceful thoughts.”
― Saffron A. Kent, Medicine Man

“My precious perfect book.
My fucking precious perfect book”
― Saffron A. Kent, Medicine Man

“I don’t know anything about love, Beth. All I know is what I’ve seen growing up. And it’s pretty fucking ugly. I’m pretty fucking ugly on the inside.”
― Saffron A. Kent, Medicine Man

“The weather is miserable, and I love it. It’s raining like it won’t rain ever again. The winds are battering against the window, shaking the whole hospital.”
― Saffron A. Kent, Medicine Man

“They reminded me that I have to live. Because every day I live, I win.”
― Saffron A. Kent, Medicine Man

“So then, how did my life start in a place like this where all lives go on pause? How did it happen that I found everything I’ve been looking for on the Outside, here on the Inside?”
― Saffron A. Kent, Medicine Man

“It’s his smell. Rain, fresh and crisp, mixed in with his musk. It’s wafting around the room and all that time I spent in there was dangerous, because I think that scent has made a home in me.”
― Saffron A. Kent, Medicine Man

“But God, he’s brought rain with him, crisp and so pretty. I wish I could feel it on my skin. And then, as if he can hear my thoughts, he makes it rain. He comes down on his knees by my side and I feel the cool, fresh droplets that shake down from his body, falling on mine.”
― Saffron A. Kent, Medicine Man

“Because when they die, they don’t die alone. They kill people by leaving them behind.”
― Saffron A. Kent, Medicine Man

“Broken heart is more dangerous than a disease of the mind, though. They give you a pill to make your brain happy, but they haven’t yet made a pill for heartbreak.”
― Saffron A. Kent, Medicine Man

“Don’t go. I-I don’t think I can stand.” I swallow, my knees buckling. His chest feels tighter than yesterday when he says, “I’m not going anywhere.” I fist his shirt in gratitude. “Thank you.”
― Saffron A. Kent, Medicine Man

“That’s another thing with my episodes. They make me snappy, irritated. Everything bothers me. The crowd, the daily chores, my mom, school, teachers. Everything. But I tried my best to hide it on the Outside so I don’t seem crazy to anyone.”
― Saffron A. Kent, Medicine Man

“Вони нагадали мені, що треба жити. Тому що кожен день, коли я живу, я перемагаю.”
― Saffron A. Kent, Medicine man

“My princess wants to get fucked, doesn’t she?”
― Saffron A. Kent, Medicine Man

“This is where we met, at Heartstone. This is where I accepted myself and this is where I gave myself to him.”
― Saffron A. Kent, Medicine Man

“Do you know when I realized I fucked up?” He swallows. “When I woke up with your blood on my cock.”
― Saffron A. Kent, Medicine Man

“I have to admit I like this cocktail much better than the one made of Prozac and lithium.”
― Saffron A. Kent, Medicine Man

“Christ,” he curses, thumbing my clit, sending shooting sparks through my blood. “It’s making me insane how soft you are. You’re the softest thing I’ve ever touched. All innocent and pure.”
― Saffron A. Kent, Medicine Man