784 quotes found
“I wanted it for how it made me feel, regardless of how little it cared for me. Do whatever you want -- just give me the bliss.”
“And this again, that that insurgent horror was knit to him closer than a wife, closer than an eye; lay caged in his flesh, where he heard it mutter and felt it struggle to be born; and at every hou...”
“I used to condemn junkies, like they could get off the stuff if they really wanted to, and that is just as stupid as saying, "You could grow eyes in the back of your head if you really wanted to.”
“I have two quizzes tomorrow. I am playing Pokemon in a bar while high on heroin.”
“Quit while youre ahead.All the best gamblers do.”
“Addiction makes love impossible.”
“Tragically, because many addicts are not given sufficient love, nurturing and non-shaming dialogue at crucial stages in their early emotional development, they are on a quest to find contentment fr...”
“Some addicts do not even have basic parenting and instead are beaten, sexually abused, left to be looked after by a dysfunctional carer, put in orphan homes or rejected by their community. If you c...”
“Regardless of the different stages in our human development, unless we learn how to create loving and fulfilling relationships (with ourselves and others), addiction will follow not necessarily as...”
“Scores of high-powered men and women are addicted to substances or destructive addictive patterns of behaviour. As a matter of fact, it is easier to hide ones addiction while maintaining a high-pow...”
“That night, I dream. And when I wake up I remember watching a film with Nannan about a ventriloquist who went mad, his dummy coming to life and speaking for itself. My dream is like the end of the ...”
“It hurts so bad that I cannot save him, protect him, keep him out of harm's way, shield him from pain. What good are fathers if not for these things?”
“In this cell you are small. Theyve taken your belt and your shoelaces. You break a little. You put your hands over your face so they dont see. They dont listen when you shout for water, Please. You...”
“She gave a shiver, and suddenly clutched her arms about her body. She spoke, Gascoigne thought, with an exhilarated fatigue, the kind that comes after the first blush of love, when the self has los...”
“Is it the smoke?' the boy said, shivering slightly. 'I've never touched the stuff, myself, but how it claws at one...like a thorn in every one of your fingers, and a string around your heart...and ...”
“When speculators have once entered Wall Street, they never leave it except in a pine box or a rosewood case, according to circumstances.”
“I had two speeds, which often varied with my blood alcohol level: fine with whatever, and never, ever satisfied. Where was the balance between these two?”
“I cant imagine what other people think cold turkey is like. It is fucking awful. On the scale of things, its better than having your leg blown off in the trenches. Its better than starving to death...”
“What the hell is that?" he asked."Magic mushrooms.""I've always wanted to try those," he exclaimed. "They sound so cute.”
“It wasn't fair that my friends could stay at Captain Morgan's pirate ship party while I was drop-kicked into a basement with homeless people chanting the Serenity Prayer.”
