11 quotes found
“Across the board... Not junkies or freaks, but people who were just as comfortable with drugs like weed, booze, or coke as we are - and we're not weird, are we? Hell no, we're just overworked profe...”
“Moral ideas about what constitutes a meritorious or meaningful use of ones life and opportunities produce specific attitudes towards drug use and intoxication.”
“With endless pharmacological supplies at our fingertips, we do not need to penetrate the motives behind our actions, feelings, transgressions, dreams, and phobias. High on chemical substances we ca...”
“I'd felt the pop of the needle sliding into my veins, like a fang into flesh. I'd been enveloped in the golden haze where nothing is wrong even when everything is falling apart. A dance with a hypo...”
“I can understand why you would want to be literally out of your own heard, because being inside your own head is unbearable.”
“Rationalizing him and the glass pipe, Dad smoked crack, but he was not a crackhead; it was just something he did. To do something didn't define you, I thought.I saw Dad through a dusty lens that di...”
“Jacob offered Ann pot, this time from a bowl. She shook her head no.You gotta keep doing it and eventually it will start to feel good, and your body will adapt, he encouraged. It was the same thing...”
“I woke up with a heart attack just out of my field of vision and with my dick in my hand, saying, I love you I love you I love you over and over...And that my dear sweet love of my life, is how thi...”
“Moral ideas about what constitutes a meritorious or meaningful use of one’s life and opportunities produce specific attitudes towards drug use and intoxication.”
“Jacob offered Ann pot, this time from a bowl. She shook her head no.“You gotta keep doing it and eventually it will start to feel good, and your body will adapt,” he encouraged. It was the same thi...”