Off the Deep End Quotes

“Sometimes, what doesn’t kill you simply doesn’t kill you, and you spend all your time wishing it had.”
― Lucinda Berry, Off the Deep End

“There’s an incredible freedom in having nothing left to lose. And it’s really hard to be afraid of anything when the worst thing has already happened to you.”
― Lucinda Berry, Off the Deep End

“Isaac has a lot of survivor guilt.”
― Lucinda Berry, Off the Deep End

“All I did was what every parent said they would do if they lost a child,”
― Lucinda Berry, Off the Deep End

“common survivor guilt was among people who had experienced a traumatic event, especially one where other people had died. Things like 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina. Wars. Accidents. Cancer. Basically, all the really bad things. You’d expect people to be happy to have made it out alive, but oftentimes that’s not what happens,”
― Lucinda Berry, Off the Deep End

“It was impossible not to think about the impact this was going to have on Katie. She’d come back from her swim meet the night Isaac went missing to find her driveway packed with emergency vehicles and her house swarming with police officers.”
― Lucinda Berry, Off the Deep End

“People who shine from within don’t need a spotlight.”
― Lucinda Berry, Off the Deep End

“There’s no getting away from the feeling that you’re not supposed to be here.”
― Lucinda Berry, Off the Deep End

“There was no greater torture for a parent than being unable to stop your child’s suffering”
― Lucinda Berry, Off the Deep End

“Everything you love could be ripped from you in an instant.”
― Lucinda Berry, Off the Deep End

“Losing a child is hell.”
― Lucinda Berry, Off the Deep End

“And it’s really hard to be afraid of anything when the worst thing has already happened to you.”
― Lucinda Berry, Off the Deep End

“No parent should ever have to go through losing their child like you did.”
― Lucinda Berry, Off the Deep End

“Grief did funny things to people.”
― Lucinda Berry, Off the Deep End

“She gave in to her grief, and it devoured her.”
― Lucinda Berry, Off the Deep End

“Since you lost your son,”
― Lucinda Berry, Off the Deep End

“Do you think people get into the type of work that I do without having some kind of trauma in their own background? Believe me, I’ve got my own story.”
― Lucinda Berry, Off the Deep End

“People who had lost all hope were dangerous,”
― Lucinda Berry, Off the Deep End

“not to waste a single day because you never know what’s going to happen the next. Everything you love could be ripped from you in an instant.”
― Lucinda Berry, Off the Deep End

“We all need to create meaning out of trauma.”
― Lucinda Berry, Off the Deep End

“I’ve never understood people’s obsession with the limelight. People who shine from within don’t need a spotlight.”
― Lucinda Berry, Off the Deep End

“Maybe being treated like an animal turns you into one. Has anyone ever thought of that?”
― Lucinda Berry, Off the Deep End

“A walking, talking miracle—that’s what they called it on the KDWB morning”
― Lucinda Berry, Off the Deep End

“But time marches on, right? Another one of those stupid sayings I hate.”
― Lucinda Berry, Off the Deep End

“every theory has exceptions.”
― Lucinda Berry, Off the Deep End

“I think grief makes people do crazy things.”
― Lucinda Berry, Off the Deep End

“he shone the light, and it penetrated my darkness.”
― Lucinda Berry, Off the Deep End

“there are all kinds of different love, and people always act like romantic love is the greatest love of all, like that's the one you should strive for above all the others. we're constantly bombarded with the idea that you've lost out on the best part of life if you haven't achieved great romantic love by the end of it. I always believed that fairy tale too.”
― Lucinda Berry, Off the Deep End

“when you're at rock bottom, there's really no other place to go but up.”
― Lucinda Berry, Off the Deep End

“sometimes, what doesn't kill you simply doesn't kill you, and you spend all your time wishing it had.”
― Lucinda Berry, Off the Deep End