{"quotes":[{"text":"I didn't know what kind of creature I was supposed to be until I woke on a hospital cot and was informed I had died. Nobody ever told me what I was. I figured I was broken. But it turns out that my scars were divine signs that I was granted a chance to begin again.","author":"Hannah Ashworth","tags":["again","begin","broken","carew","chance","cot","creature","divine","evolution","gloria","grant","hannah","hospital","monster","morigan","nobody","normal","scars","signs","starbrazen"],"id":1215,"author_id":"Hannah+Ashworth"},{"text":"My mother smiled. 'I knew my baby wasn't like that.'I looked at her. 'Like what?'Like those awful people. Those awful dead people at that hospital.' She paused. 'I knew you'd decide to be all right again.","author":"Sylvia Plath","tags":["choice","decision","depression","hospital","mental-health","mental-health-stigma","stigma"],"id":4396,"author_id":"Sylvia+Plath"},{"text":"Or maybe watching you enjoy a carefree summer while you fell in love was what kept me out of the hospital in the first place.","author":"Nicholas Sparks","tags":["hospital","illness","love","steve","summer"],"id":13574,"author_id":"Nicholas+Sparks"},{"text":"There is no real bravery in getting paid to save someone's life. However, there is a large amount of bravery in a nurse break dancing at the hospital's Christmas party.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["bravery","break-dancing","christmas-party","courage","dancing","embarrasement","funny","hospital","humor","no-fear","nurse","ridiculous","social-situations","stupid"],"id":17676,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"What sticks with me now is that this man said he needed to get to a hospital. He probably needed to reach his destination more than anyone else on the bus, yet he lacked the capacity to ride without getting kicked off. Maybe he reached the hospital eventually, and maybe he was connected with social workers and housing specialists who will help him transform his life. But I fear he got on another bus, and another bus after that, without going anywhere at all.","author":"Susan Nielsen","tags":["bus","going-nowhere","healthcare","hospital","mental-illness","mentally-ill"],"id":19424,"author_id":"Susan+Nielsen"},{"text":"I went out into the corridor. I asked a nurse if she knew where the people with arthritis went. She said lots of them went to Ward 34 on the top floor. She said she thought that was a silly place to put people with bad bones who had such trouble walking and climbing stairs.","author":"David Almond","tags":["arthritis","hospital","ill","illness","logic","unwell"],"id":20125,"author_id":"David+Almond"},{"text":"He was a loving father, but he did his loving in private. Quietly, he would tell his daughter to drive safely. On her wedding day, when he walked her down the aisle, he'd whisper the words to her. But today, above the noise, he would have to shout it.","author":"Debra Anastasia","tags":["fathers-and-daughters","hospital","hurt","love","noise","quiet"],"id":23109,"author_id":"Debra+Anastasia"},{"text":"He just wanted to see what a girl who was crazy enough to kill herself looked like.","author":"Sylvia Plath","tags":["hospital","suicide"],"id":34109,"author_id":"Sylvia+Plath"},{"text":"The nurses did their best to spruce up the antiseptic corridors but the smell of pine boughs was overpowered by Pine Sol and no one paused beneath the mistletoe on the contagious ward.","author":"Robert Zverina","tags":["christmas","hospital"],"id":44348,"author_id":"Robert+Zverina"},{"text":"One foot in front of the other, more aimless than direct, Bradford left the waiting room for the outside world. Called for a taxi and then dialed Munroe again, desperate for her voice, for one ray of light in the darkness, afraid of what he might say if she did answer, afraid of himself and the inner deadening that pointed to a danger far more lethal than any rage he'd felt.","author":"Taylor Stevens","tags":["aimlessness","danger","darkness","dead","emotion","hospital","lethal","light","loss","one-step-at-a-time","pain","rage","waiting"],"id":48283,"author_id":"Taylor+Stevens"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":87,"pages":9,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}