"Anyone who has lived through it, or those who are now living through it, knows that caring about an addict is as complex and fraught and debilitating as addiction itself."

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Source : David Sheff (2009). “Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

David Sheff

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“It couldn't pull a greased stick out of a pig's bottom”
“I can't swim but if my girlfriend was drowning, I'd still dive in to save her.”
“..he may love you, he may miss you, but ultimately he's just not that into you.”
“I'm not anti-Muslim, I'm not anti-immigration; I'm saying we've got big problems in our cities. It's not very smart to make the problem bigger by letting in millions more immigrants from rural Muslim cultures that don't assimilate.”

Source : "Holland's high-camp hero of new politics". www.telegraph.co.uk. May 4, 2002.
“The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.”

Source : Carl Rogers (2012). “On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy”, p.186, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Baby Girl," I say. "I need you remember everything I told you. Do you remember what I told you?" She still crying steady, but the hiccups are gone. "To wipe my bottom good when I'm done?" "No, baby, the other one. About who you are.”
“You are your greatest investment. The more you store in that mind of yours, the more you enrich your experience, the more people you meet, the more books you read, and the more places you visit, the greater is that investment in all that you are. Everything that you add to your peace of mind, and to your outlook upon life, is added capital that no one but yourself can dissipate.”
“Creating fake facts does require a measure of haphazard research, insofar as they need to not just be possible, but also interesting.”

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