19 quotes found
“Do you remember? Do you remember the world before the poison?”
“Imagine trying to live without air.Now imagine something worse.”
“Getting rid of the drugs doesnt get rid of all the other ways you learned to deal with the world. Its not that easy.”
“Getting rid of the drugs doesn’t get rid of all the other ways you learned to deal with the world. It’s not that easy.”
“Im feeling really hopeful about it, like maybe I actually have a chance to get better. To be happy. Its funny, I just realized that my whole life, the whole time Ive been trying to be perfect, I ne...”
“I wonder if anybody else feels this way, if anyone in here is as scared as I am. Are they as sad and angry and confused and ashamed? Is that even possible? Is it even possible for one building to h...”
“What if I'm so broken I can never do something as basic as feed myself? Do you realize how twisted that is? It amazes me sometimes that humans still exist. We're just animals, after all. And how ca...”
“Shirley: "Christopher, would you like to tell Olivia what "F.I.N.E" means?"Christopher: "Fucked-up, Insecure, Neurotic, and Emotional"...Olivia: "But what if you really do feel fine?"Shirley: "Chri...”
“I think before I ever became an alcoholic, before I even tasted alcohol or tried drugs, I was already programmed to be this way. Before there was cocaine or vodka or sex or any of that, there was f...”
“I dont feel great, but I also dont feel terrible, either, and I guess thats how normal people feel most of the time. They live in the space between black and white, and their ups and downs are vari...”
“The first week is the hardest. Then little by little the world opens up, and you realize there are all these people around you with their own needs that have nothing to do with you. Then you forget...”
“This thing thats always been inside and hidden deep is getting bigger and stronger and threatening to show itself, and I want to stop it but I also dont, and I dont know if Im ready, but I think ma...”
“How can she stand up there so tall as shes telling us how her mother beat her and her father molested her when she was a little girl? How is it possible for her to look so proud? How is she not bei...”
“Everyone's always making fun of him and calling him crazy behind his back, but I can kind of understand how someone would end up that way. I mean, if no one ever pays attention to you telling the t...”
“I’m feeling really hopeful about it, like maybe I actually have a chance to get better. To be happy. It’s funny, I just realized that my whole life, the whole time I’ve been trying to be perfect, I...”
“Do you remember? Do you remember the world before the dark? Do you remember the world with mothers and fathers and stillness that did not feel like death?”
“I don’t feel great, but I also don’t feel terrible, either, and I guess that’s how normal people feel most of the time. They live in the space between black and white, and their ups and downs are v...”
“This thing that’s always been inside and hidden deep is getting bigger and stronger and threatening to show itself, and I want to stop it but I also don’t, and I don’t know if I’m ready, but I thin...”
“How can she stand up there so tall as she’s telling us how her mother beat her and her father molested her when she was a little girl? How is it possible for her to look so proud? How is she not be...”
