67 Quotes by Barbara Nickless

When the dog has a chance to bite, he will.

Memories swirled through my head like leaves caught in a storm, urging me to a distant place, another time.

Don't apologize for what you do to survive. Anyone would do the same.

It's your job, Marine, to stay alive. If that means getting comfortable with your inner darkness, then that's what you do.

Find somewhere to put the fear, Rosie. A place inside where you don't have to look very often.

Don't be afraid of the ugly in your past. The trauma. The failures and mistakes. The what-ifs and the what-the-hell-was-I-thinking and the times someone broke your heart. They're over and done with, a pile of bones you can use to stand tall. - Peter Hayes, Clinical Therapist, VA Hospital

There are good and bad people on both sides of a conflict. The trick is in figuring out which is which. And who is working for whom.

Everyone is the hero of their own story.

The bad guys don't wear signs. And all of us are only human.