Quotation

Life, in Spite of Me

Extraordinary Hope After a Fatal Choice
Sam_I_Am
"You said you were run over by thirty-three freight-train cars at fifty-five miles per hour, correct?" "Yes, that's what the police report says." "Kristen, you should have been sucked up under that train . . . ." As the man spoke, I thought about the sucking sensation when the train first went over me, and then I remembered the force pushing me down. Butterflies fluttered in my stomach, It had to have been the hand of God, holding me down, protecting me." -- Page 188, Kristen's conversation with a railroad engineer, who'd seen such suicide attempts before.