All David Sheff Quotes
- The hopeful part about that is when you do have that help, you will feel better. It still doesn't make this easy. Nothing makes this… Better
- Wherever you be, wherever you may, seek the truth, strive for the beautiful, achieve the good. Achieve
- Once and for all, people must understand that addiction is a disease. It’s critical if we’re going to effectively prevent and treat addiction. Accepting that… Accepting
- This stigma associated with drug use--the belief that bad kids use, good kids don't, and those with full-blown addiction are weak, dissolute, and pathetic--has contributed… Addiction
- If you subscribe to the idea that #‎ addiction is a disease, it is startling to see how many of these children - paranoid, anxious,… Addiction
- How innocent we are of our mistakes and how we responsible we are for them. Innocent
- I didn't cause it. I can't control it. I can't cure it. Cause
- I'm not sure if I know any 'functional' families, if functional means a family without difficult times and members who don't have a full range… Any
- Why does it help to read others' stories? It is not only that misery loves company, because (I learned) misery is too self-absorbed to want… Absorbed
- How can both Nics, the loving and considerate and generous one, and the self-obsessed and self-destructive one, be the same person? Both
- I am becoming used to an overwhelming, grinding mixture of anger and worry... Anger
- Here's a note to the parents of addicted children: Choose your music carefully...There are millions of treacherous moments. Addicted
- Through Nic's drug addiction, I have learned that parents can bear almost anything....I shock myself with my ability to rationalize and tolerate things once unthinkable.… Ability
- At my worst, I even resented Nic because an addict, at least when high, has a momentary respite from his suffering. There is no similar… Addict
- A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white. Almost Nothing
- An alcoholic will steal your wallet and lie to you. A drug addict will steal your wallet and then help you look for it. Addict
- When I transformed my random and raw words into sentences, sentences into paragraphs, and paragraphs into chapters, a semblance of order and sanity appeared where… Appeared
- 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… Addict
- We deny the severity of our loved one's problem not because we are naive, but because we can't know. Deny
- Along with the joy of parenthood, with every child comes a piercing vulnerability. It is at once sublime and terrifying Along