Over My Head Quotes

“Please don't trivialize my loss by making excuses for my failures or comparing me to someone who never had what I have lost. It compounds my distress and discounts what I once was without even allowing me the opportunity to express my grief. Though entirely unintentional, it adds insult to injury.”
― Claudia L. Osborn, Over My Head: A Doctor's Own Story of Head Injury from the Inside Looking Out

“So, laugh with me, cry with me, but please don't tell me you know how I feel or you know what it's like because "it's the same" for you. How can it be? You have never lived in my head.”
― Claudia L. Osborn, Over My Head: A Doctor's Own Story of Head Injury from the Inside Looking Out

“I have learned that experiences that I swear by virtue of their very intensity must be indelibly printed in my memory are actually as fleeting as my dreams.”
― Claudia L. Osborn, Over My Head: A Doctor's Own Story of Head Injury from the Inside Looking Out

“It isn't hard to walk away from something you love if you think you are coming right back.”
― Claudia L. Osborn, Over My Head: A Doctor's Own Story of Head Injury from the Inside Looking Out