I Am Still Alive Quotes
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“To survive you need to learn to hold contradictory things in your head at the same time. I am going to die; I am going to live. There is nothing to fear; be wary of everything.”
― I Am Still Alive
― I Am Still Alive
“You have to learn to assume that you will fail and assume that you will succeed at the same time. This is the only way to stay smart and careful and stay moving and motivated. You cannot give up and you cannot let up.”
― I Am Still Alive
― I Am Still Alive
“Fire is warmth and food and clean water, but it’s hard and time-consuming, and people die because they spend all their time making the fire and no time finding water or building a shelter.”
― I Am Still Alive
― I Am Still Alive
“I look at the wall where those first words - SMART, NOT STRONG - have been joined by dozens more.
Pay attention to the wind.
Steep drop west of the snag.
Say something out loud at least once a day.
Remember they’re coming.”
― I Am Still Alive
Pay attention to the wind.
Steep drop west of the snag.
Say something out loud at least once a day.
Remember they’re coming.”
― I Am Still Alive
“Here the sounds that wrapped around me were wild sounds and the smells were wild smells and there was no light to stain the sky except the sun.”
― I Am Still Alive
― I Am Still Alive
“For the first time in my life, there are no expectations of me at all. The only thing that matters is what I want, what I can do.”
― I Am Still Alive
― I Am Still Alive
“They think I’m wounded, but there is a difference between a wound and a scar. I’m done bleeding. I’m tougher now. And if these scars sometimes make things stiff, make it a little harder to move smoothly through a conversation or the routines of normal life, they just keep me from forgetting.”
― I Am Still Alive
― I Am Still Alive
“I didn’t want to think about my life before, because I loved it too much. Loved Mom too much. I could lock everything up and forget about it until it all healed over, however long that took.”
― I Am Still Alive
― I Am Still Alive
“My mind refuses to retrace my footsteps, to go further into the past than the night, the fire.”
― I Am Still Alive
― I Am Still Alive
“Even though I’m starving, I feel queasy, an odd churning in my stomach. It takes me a minute to recognize it. I had the same feeling after the accident, when they told me Mom was dead.”
― I Am Still Alive
― I Am Still Alive