“Being a product of Bea and Jack, he is the antithesis of Mom. I don’t mean he doesn’t love me, rather his expression of love, acceptance, and even his presence in my life is as conditional as Mom’s love is… — Brett Douglas Copy Share Image
“Jesse reached into a cabinet and produced a plate holding a pile of cocaine and some needles. Does everyone encounter multiple opportunities to do… — Brett Douglas Copy Share Image
“Diabetes is a disease. Diabetics are not responsible for having the disease. Diabetics are responsible for taking their insulin.” — Brett Douglas Copy Share Image
“In the 21st century, where cameras and mirrors are everywhere, I’m amazed at how difficult seeing myself really is.” — Brett Douglas Copy Share Image
“Polaroid pictures of them wearing bell-bottom jeans, leather vests, round lens glasses, and headbands. They were in their teens when I was born and in the partying stage of their lives when I was young. At the age of five, I opened my parents’ sock drawer. Instead of socks, it was filled with dead plants. I didn’t know what it… — Brett Douglas Copy Share
“I realized at that moment how someone’s preoccupation with external appearances can be hiding something unattractive on the inside.” — Brett Douglas Copy Share Image
“Being a product of Bea and Jack, he is the antithesis of Mom. I don’t mean he doesn’t love me, rather his expression of… — Brett Douglas Copy Share Image
“They never get the chance to experience the blessing of loss, the gift of despair, and the richness of forced introspection.” — Brett Douglas Copy Share Image
