Claire Wineland

I don't want to actually die. I want to see what happens in life. I want to see where it goes. ”

What happens when you have an illness where you're never going to be healthy? Does that mean I'm never going to have a life? Am I never going to do anything or be anything other than a sick kid? ”

If my biggest problem in life was to be healthy, I'd be incredibly bored. ”

I am 17 years old and a senior in high school. I am also, like thousands of other people living on this planet, sick. ”

When we're suffering, we kind of have this notion that we kind of should stop living and we should just focus on his how to 'get over it,' how to just 'get to the other side.' ”

Death is Inevitable. Living a life we can be proud of is something we can control. ”

My purpose is to help people be more comfortable with their pain and realize that they have power and a lot to give regardless of whether their life seems normal or not. ”

I don't spend any time thinking about the day that I'm cured, or the day that I'm healthier, and that's because I know that on a certain level it doesn't matter. ”

I'm grateful for the doctors that'll be scooping out these lungs and giving me some more life to work with. I'm grateful for the chance to keep being a person. ”

I didn't want to be one of those people who was resentful. The moment you start saying to people that their lives must be miserable because they're sick, you give their sickness value over them. ”