Kim Reynolds Quotes

When you go through a long illness, certainly one of cancer, there's a certain release from it and relief that it has come to an end, because the suffering can be unbearable, as opposed to an abrupt stop to life when they go out the door and there's a loved one who never comes home because of some accident.

COVID-19 is a national crisis, and we need a national response to address it.

I remember burying a girl fourteen years of age who had died with a ruptured appendix... I buried a good many people that I knew, some of whom I loved.

The outbreak of COVID-19 has created an unprecedented situation around the world.

Cry if you have a compound fracture, by all means. Or if your grandpa died. But otherwise, save it for your pillow.

In the face of Covid-19, everything else seems a side-issue.

The Coronavirus crisis is causing fear, anxiety and financial hardship for families across our community, our state and our nation.

Cancer is awful. It took 10 years until I didn't think about it every day. Nobody should go through this. Nobody.

After my husband died, I could not write much - I could not concentrate. I was too exhausted most of the time even to contemplate writing. But I did take notes - not for fiction, but for a journal, or diary, of this terrible time. I did not think that I would ever survive this interlude.

Most of my friends are dead. I watched friends die in my arms at 5, 6, 8. When I grew up, the rest of my friends died of AIDS.

I was slapped down to the ground when my son Wade died in 1996, in April of 1996.

In December 1988, my mother died of lung cancer. I died too. I couldn't function.

Then my mother was taken ill and died and my father took me to St. Mary's.

In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.

Suicide doesn't solve your problems. It only makes them infinitely, un-countably worse.

When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.

I never had time to think about my beliefs until my 28-year-old daughter Paula fell ill. She was in a coma for a year, and I took care of her at home until she died in my arms in December of 1992.

And from my place, and from the time that I went through my divorce, I also had my father pass away in the middle of all that. And it kind of made everything else just kind of like the back burner, you know.

Depression is a feeling without a cause. Mourning has a cause.

Blood and death. That moves me.

I think everyone understands grief, the journey it takes us on, whether it's the death of a loved one, the end of a relationship, a disappointment. Some people don't deal with it, the power of it. Some do. Some feel the weight of it and it informs their choices. I've had to open up to grief in different contexts.

Words do not pay for my dead people.

My father died in my arms. That's tumult. That's everything exploding.

I don't think you could get anything worse than losing a child. I think if my child died, I would prefer it if I were dead.

Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted.