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“Whats going to happen, he breathes, is that Im going to carry you through this door. Im going to draw out every single moment until youre exhausted. And Im going to move so slow that three months a...”
“Im remarrying you, Lil. Fuck, Id remarry you a hundred times until it stuck.”
“Imperfect parenting does not cause addiction. If that were so, everyone would be one.”
“You can't "let go". You can't "detach with love". You can't let them "hit bottom". You can't seem to implement the strategies you have learned when you are faced with your adult child's chaos and a...”
“Fine. Such a stupid word really. It feels empty and weightless. Its the kind of word you use to hide the truth.”
“We who were not so pathologically far out on the spectrum of self-involvement, we dwellers of the visible spectrum who could imagine how it felt to go beyond violet but were not ourselves beyond it...”
“There are a lot of victims when it comes to addiction. I know there's an overdose epidemic. We see those faces. But then I see these other faces - the ones who commit suicide because they can't han...”
“In this country, dont forget, a habit is no damn private hell. Theres no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country its the worst kind of hell for...”
“Loving you has been worse than an addiction to drugs. At least I don't have the drugs c r a w l i n g into my bed at night.”
“This human need for mysticism surrender to an unknown truth, union stands at the helm of all romantic feeling. It is, in essence, the same intimacy known in a mothers arms; in those who are depri...”
“This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us . . . to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves, to act in such a way that some part of...”
“Stephanie, I'm begging you. Eat some doughnuts. I can't keep going like this." - Morelli”
“Sometimes Sometimes doubt is the opposite of faith, but sometimes doubt can be a pathway to faith. Sometimes weakness is the opposite of strength, but sometimes weakness can be the pathway to stren...”
“If those who cause destruction have come to be newsworthy, and those who heal the devastation of that destruction have come to be less than noteworthy, has our thirst to be entertained become the t...”
“But show me just this one thing, my darling, i seek a heart stained like a poppy flower.”
“We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely...change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.”
“Drug addicts driven to crime to finance their drug addiction are not often inclined toward violent crime. Violence requires all different kinds of energy, and most drug addicts like to expend their...”
“You have chosen to exist, and more than just exist-- you've been chosen to share in the Universal consciousness.”
“We are hardwired for glory because we are hardwired for God.”
“If you examine your motive for doing anything, you'll soon discover that your reason is that you believe it will make you happy.”
