Susannah Cahalan quotes

“Sometimes, Just when we need them, life wraps metaphors up in little bows for us. When you think all is lost, the things you need the most return unexpectedly.”
-- Susannah Cahalan

Source : Susannah Cahalan (2012). “Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness”, p.206, Simon and Schuster

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“On April 2, the nurses started my first round of five intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) infusions. The clear IV bags hung on a metal pole above my head, their liquid trickling down into my vein. Each of those ordinary-looking bags contained the healthy antibodies of over a thousand blood donors and cost upwards of $20,000 per infusion. One thousand tourniquets, one thousand nurses, one thousand veins, one thousand blood-sugar regulating cookies, all just to help one patient.”
-- Susannah Cahalan

Source : Susannah Cahalan (2012). “Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

#Blood Quotes #Nurse Quotes #Healthy Quotes

“To move foward, you have to leave the past behind”
-- Susannah Cahalan

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“We are, in the end, a sum of our parts, and when the body fails, all the virtues we hold dear go with it.”
-- Susannah Cahalan

Source : Susannah Cahalan (2012). “Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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“Maybe it's true what Thomas Moore said: “It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed.”
-- Susannah Cahalan

Source : "The Care of the Soul". Book by Thomas Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1992.

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“The brain is a monstrous, beautiful mess.”
-- Susannah Cahalan

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“When the brain is working to remember something, similar patterns of neurons fire as they did during the perception of the original event. These networks are linked, and each time we revisit them, they become stronger and more associated. But they need the proper retrieval cues--words, smells, images-- for them to be brought back as memories”
-- Susannah Cahalan

Source : Susannah Cahalan (2012). “Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

#Memories Quotes #Smell Quotes #Fire Quotes

“Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.”

“Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.”

“The greatest need of our age and of every age, the greatest need of every human heart, is to know the resources and sufficiency of God.”

Source : A. B. Simpson (2010). “When God Steps In: Divine Resources for Life's Situations”, p.4, Moody Publishers

“I cannot bear not to know the end of a tale. I will read the most trivial things – once commenced – only out of a feverish greed to be able to swallow the ending – sweet or sour – and to be done with what I need never have embarked on. Are you in my case? Or are you a more discriminating reader? Do you lay aside the unprofitable?”

“I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.”

“I liked the fact she understood how we all have little secret habits that seem normal enough to us, but which we know better than to mention out loud.”

“It used to be that you kind of got pigeonholed into one thing - you're either a stage actor or a TV actor or a movie actor. Today, there's a lot of crossover with film actors doing television, which never happened before, so those lines are a little bit more blurred than they used to be.”

“It is almost impossible to throw dirt on someone without getting a little on yourself”

“A tiny remnant of a big thing is better than a whole little thing.”

“I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.”