If Anyone Could Have Saved Me Quotes

“I need someone to listen and not try to move me out of what I feel.”
― Khushboo Aneja, If Anyone Could Have Saved Me

“Why assume I want help? Why assume that I didn’t try to help myself? Five therapists, two psychiatrists, bottles and bottles of pills, a shelf full of self-help books, gym subscriptions, yoga class subscriptions, and countless hours spent meditating. I tried everything.”
― Khushboo Aneja, If Anyone Could Have Saved Me

“Love doesn’t conquer everything but that does not mean it doesn’t help. You can be irrevocably in love with a person and not find it enough. But you can also be in love and find it enough of a reason to be better. At least for a while, you know? Until you find another reason that has everything to do with you and maybe just a little to do with the person you love,”
― Khushboo Aneja, If Anyone Could Have Saved Me

“As much as I am afraid of time, I am obsessed with it too.”
― Khushboo Aneja, If Anyone Could Have Saved Me

“No one can recognize me. This is the only superpower you can have in a small town, the only amount of control you can access.”
― Khushboo Aneja, If Anyone Could Have Saved Me

“Only if I had anything other than a mental illness, maybe I would have survived it.”
― Khushboo Aneja, If Anyone Could Have Saved Me

“I wish I had some physical disease so I could tell people ‘Oh I have been resting. You know how it is with all the treatments going on.’ If I had a real illness, like heart disease or cancer, then maybe I wouldn’t have lost my friends. I wouldn’t have had to lie that I am fine. Maybe then people would have come to meet me, spend time with me, hold my hand for a while, crack jokes so that I could smile, and send over flowers and chocolates I couldn’t eat. Only if I had anything other than a mental illness, maybe I would have survived it.”
― Khushboo Aneja, If Anyone Could Have Saved Me

“I can breathe because I want to look at the moon endlessly and have these conversations with him.”
― Khushboo Aneja, If Anyone Could Have Saved Me