Hachette Aus Books

“In some ways I was a teenager again.
Excited and earnest and innocent and generous and envious and insecure and overconfident and vulnerable and curious and secretive and honest and hopeful and overwhelmed.

I still loved me.”
― Bradley Trevor Greive, Broken Girl: A true story

“Vigilant machines and attentive medical staff made sure I remained technically alive.
Yet not quite alive.

My corporeal self was strapped to the bed.
A last-ditch attempt to tether me to the mortal realm.

The rest of me was treading the slackline between this dimension and the next.”
― Bradley Trevor Greive

“I wanted to scream that I was sorry, that this wasn’t really me.
That this was my brain healing, this was only temporary.
But, then I’d just be screaming again.
And they hated that.”
― Bradley Trevor Greive, Broken Girl: A true story

“My mother taught me that intelligence was sexy, being independent was powerful, optimism and kindness were as essential as clean water, and, above all, to trust my heart.

My father taught me not to trust men.”
― Bradley Trevor Greive, Broken Girl: A true story