One More Light Quotes

“Create a positive environment that enables healthy conversation around the dinner table, a chance for all of us to say how we feel. Help lift those who are hurting and learn from those who have pulled themselves out of the darkness. No first responder is spared from post-traumatic stress. I hope we can remove the stigma once and for all and stop any more of our brothers and sisters from feeling they have nowhere to turn. Remember, if you bury the seeds, they will keep growing in the dark until they can’t be contained any more.”
― James Geering, One More Light: Life, Death and Humanity through the Eyes of a Firefighter

“They tried to bury us. They didn’t know that we were seeds. – Mexican proverb”
― James Geering, One More Light: Life, Death and Humanity through the Eyes of a Firefighter

“Had I spent the previous twenty years on a couch, the chances of being able to protect my son and his friends would have been slim to none. As a lifelong martial artist, first responder and athlete, those chances were significantly higher.”
― James Geering, One More Light: Life, Death and Humanity through the Eyes of a Firefighter

“I wish my head could forget what my eyes have seen”.”
― James Geering, One More Light: Life, Death and Humanity through the Eyes of a Firefighter

“We walk the razor’s edge between communal worth and social numbing, essentially, and what we lean more toward will determine the memory of us as a collective. For our children. For theirs.”
― James Geering, One More Light: Life, Death and Humanity through the Eyes of a Firefighter