Getting better Quote by John Green

“Illness is a story told in the past tense.”

— John Green

“Something had been confirmed: I was worth giving a shit about; I was getting to be a successful sick person. Sick is when they…

— Marya Hornbacher

“I told Mom that maybe I had made a terrible mistake, but mom said sometimes you have to get sicker before you can get…

— Jeannette Walls

“I will tell you something about stories. They aren't just entertainment. They are all we have to fight off illness and death. You don't…

— Leslie Marmon Silko

“I know I am sick, I just thought I was better.”

— Samantha Schutz

“When I learned you were sick , I finally felt old for the first time. You will recover, and I never will.”

— Joseph Heller

“I was left with a scar. I think telling stories is a way of putting a scar into words. Since not all blows or…

— Brenda Lozano

“From her experience working with the weak and the sick, she'd learned that the disease you ignore is the one that kills you, so…

— Edwidge Danticat

“Sickness leading to healing. The truth and its opposite again”

— Gayle Forman

“I told a potential girlfriend I had known for several months that I had been really sick for years and had recovered, and she…

— Steven Magee

“She raised her voice, reminding him that he was a doctor, that his first priority was to help the sick, and he shot back…

— Basma Abdel Aziz

“This is not just a story about how you can become sick by knowing people. This is a story about how other people can…

— Anonymous