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“I pawned the remote to my misery,trading it in for liquor that was cheap;screwdrivers for my vitamin c,and a little bloodstream to my IV,helping to soothe my lunacy”
“What was so painful about Amys death is that I know that there is something I could have done. I could have passed on to her the solution that was freely given to me. Dont pick up a drink or drug, ...”
“Alcoholism or addiction is a disease because it fits the definition of disease. It is progressive and chronic, and left untreated, it will kill.”
“Now Imsober and Irealize, Ididnt drink toescape the world,I drank to escapemyself”
“In this way, the Church was a true reflection of the whole of Russian society. The KGB and the Russian people had penetrated each other to such an extent that they could not be separated. The cultu...”
“A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not the same man at all. You can't predict anything about him for sure except that he...”
“And in my mind, this settles the issue. I would never drink cologne, and am therefore not an alcoholic.”
“Life is better when you're drunk. I ought to become an alcoholic.”
“What she liked the most about drinking was not being present, that feeling of self-evasion, of disconnection, of liberation, of escape. Alcohol offered her an excellent alternative to being herself...”
“Drinking gave me a rush of confidence, and for a boy hounded by feelings of inadequacy, the buzz was a welcome relief. What was impossible to realize at the time was that I was shooting myself in t...”
“Gin and whisky cost so much more. Oblivion and courage could no longer be purchased for the price of an old song.”
“When I walked into the house, I went in search of one of my dad's bottles. Not that they were that hard to find. He hid bottles all over the house. I knew where they all were. That was one of my ho...”
“When it's summer, people sit a lot. Or lie. Lie in the sense of recumbency. A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic. Many a ...”
“It wasn't fair to pull her into that vortex, because I couldn't be fixed. And Roxy was a fixer. She thought she could help me, I could see it in her eyes.”
“Maybe it was that brokenness inside of Bentley that I recognized and drew me to him, I didn't know. I just remember thinkin' how I wanted to know more about him. And I wanted to make him smile. Cau...”
“Roxy was my breath of fresh air. My soft place to land. She was home to me.”
“The longer we spent together, the more she discovered about me. The things I didn't want her to know. The darkness and the anger and the pain.”
“She was trying to hide it, the pain I had caused her again. Because she knew how much those tears destroyed me.”
“If theres one thing I learned in Alanon, its that you got to face the music because it just grows louder when you ignore it.”
“I had to feel sorry for Bubba's wife. In AA we called it denial. We take the asp to our breast and smile at the alarm we see in the eyes of others.”
