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“She began to realize some decisions cannot be undone no matter how hard you try.”
“I almost wish I had cancer. Then Id either beat it or die from it. But my disease, even if successfully treated, will never go away. And it might not kill me. But it will hang over me like the blad...”
“Life was radical right after I met the monster.Later, life became harder, complicated.Ultimately, a living hell, like swimming against a riptide,Walking the wrong direction in the fast lane of the ...”
“Don't kid yourself by saying that one time can't make you addicted. It can. I believed it couldn't too when I first tried meth. I was so, so wrong. The worst part about it is that you won't realize...”
“It's not your fault you had an unwanted dick in you.”
“Are you addicted if there is simply no reason for you to do anything else?”
“...patriarchy, hierarchy, and capitalism create, encourage, maintain, and perpetuate addiction and dependency. Patriarchy and hierarchy are based on domination and subordination, which result in fe...”
“Imagine this:Ice is coming to YOUR house.Can you HEAR it knocking?Are you ready?What will YOU do?”
“I can no longer cry. I groan a few times. Through the slits that are my eyes, I stare at my shoes, at the gray swirls of the concrete floor, at the bright orange lid of my syringe. And I realizeits...”
“When my pals in high school were starting to drink, it always looked unappealing to me. I would be at a big party and see one of the popular girls or football players completely wasted and puking a...”
“I WILL CHANGE THIS WORLD ABSOLUTELY”
“I didn't want to take it. I knew it was a powerful drug, but I also knew it was a catabolic drug that consumed the body.”
“The psyche cannot tolerate a vacuum of love. In the severely abused or deprived child, pain, dis-ease, and violance rush in to fill the void. In the average person in our culture, who has been only...”
“That was the problem with love, though, wasn't it. It couldn't be helped, couldn't be controlled. It just roared in and took whatever it wanted, destroyed whatever it wanted; the most dangerous add...”
“I never met an addict who came from a nice home . I've met addicts that came from families that had money and nice houses. But never from a nice home.”
“It's probably weird to think about an addiction like it's a sentient being, but that's how it feels. Like it's something living inside you. Something you can't get rid of because killing it means k...”
“. We have this attitude that people become drug addicts against their will. That they couldnt possibly want this kind of life. But maybe thats not true. Maybe they dont want to live like other peop...”
“It was not long before I discovered that withdrawing addicts lost their composure in exactly the same manner that careless millionaires lose their money: gradually, then suddenly.”
“I might be manipulating you to create risk for myself.”
“I once tried to give him a friendly little "drugs chat". He politely corrected me on every single fact, then said he'd noticed I drank above the recommended guidelines of Red Bull and did I think I...”
