98 quotes found
“Slurping these spirits is soul preparation, a warped communion, myself serving as god, priest, and congregation.”
“That was it. To be a rolling stone. In the romantic places of the earth. Ready for a fight, a frolic, or a feed. And since I was Irish, since I was Billy Hamill's son, since I was from Brooklyn: a ...”
“His eyes are so clear and blue that nothing but clichs enter my mind.”
“His laugh is made of porch swings and lemonade.”
“God cannot be happy when we ignore such issues as crime, corruption, alcoholism and child neglect”
“Sure, genetics do play a role in alcoholism. You're more likely to be an alcoholic if one or both of your parents are also alcoholics. But that's just one part of the equation; the other part is yo...”
“Kate was about to protest when something caused her to look in her mothers direction. She was standing statue-like in front of the television with that brave, painted-on smile. Then Kate realized w...”
“Being crazy, for the rest of us, is a form of sanity.”
“Let me ask you this: How many days do you have left, if any, in the life you promised for yourself yesterday?”
“So you mean to tell me you won't fuck anyone you don't share some kind of deep emotional connection with? What a sad, depressing, truly horrible life you must lead...”
“An empty bottle of Jack is almost just as beautiful as a new and unopened bottle...in the same sense as looking down at muddied feet, and looking back the way you came. The journey you've taken to ...”
“Gwynn, she was always talking about wanting to be drunk and honestly I did want to encourage that, I wanted to go to a bar with her and let all the stuff sobriety pushed down be released so I could...”
“I'm sick of the ignorance that lack of funding has generated, of the fathers who apporach me at dinner parties with their four-year-old girls clasped to their pant legs and say, "Yeah, but studies ...”
“There are millions of people out there who live this way, and their hearts are breaking just like mine. Its okay to say, My kid is a drug addict or alcoholic, and I still love them and Im still pro...”
“I found the prospect daunting, but somehow comforting, too, because the counselors insisted it could be done, and, after all, many of them were recovering alcoholics themselves.”
“Those unexpected morality lessons provided by the trip had jolted me into some kind of action. It was time to jettison the past before the present jettisoned me. This was my first veiled attempt at...”
“The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their addiction and unless they have structured help, the...”
“Whether I or anyone else accepted the concept of alcoholism as a disease didn't matter; what mattered was that when treated as a disease, those who suffered from it were most likely to recover.”
“I felt empty and sad for years, and for a long, long time, alcohol worked. Id drink, and all the sadness would go away. Not only did the sadness go away, but I was fantastic. I was beautiful, funny...”
“Spurred by Amys death Ive tried to salvage unwilling victims from the mayhem of the internal storm and am always, always just pulled inside myself.”
