"The real struggle is about you: you, a……" — Caroline Knapp
"The real struggle is about you: you, a person who has to learn to live in the real world, to inhabit her own skin, to know her own heart, to stop waiting for life to begin."
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Caroline Knapp
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56 Quotes by Caroline Knapp
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Alcoholism is the disease of more.
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I once heard a woman who had lost her dog say that she felt as though a color were suddenly…
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Dogs possess a quality that's rare among humans -- the ability to make you feel valued just by being you…
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It happened this way: I fell in love and then, because the love was ruining everything I cared about, I…
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Trying to describe the process of becoming an alcoholic is like trying to describe air. It's too big and mysterious…
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When you love somebody, or something, its amazing how willing you are to overlook the flaws.
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Smooth and ordered on the outside; roiling and chaotic and desperately secretive underneath, but not noticeably so, never noticeably so.
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Love—the desire to love and be loved, to hold and be held, to give love even if your experience as…
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The freedom to choose...means the freedom to make mistakes, to falter and fail, to come face-to-face with your own flaws…
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So it persists, for many of us, hunger channeled into some internal circuitry of longing, routed this way and that,…
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When I drank, the part that felt dangerous and needy grew bright and strong and real. The part that coveted…
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