Addict Quote by Marian Keyes

“You've recognised a fundamental feature of an addict's life. Maintaining your habit is so important you've no real interest in anything else.” quote by Marian Keyes — Download Open image

“You've recognised a fundamental feature of an addict's life. Maintaining your habit is so important you've no real interest in anything else.”

Marian Keyes

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“The last time I’d been unwell, suicidally depressed, whatever you want to call it, the reactions of my friends and family had fallen into several different camps: The Let’s Laugh It Off merchants: Claire was the leading light. They hoped that joking about my state of mind would reduce it to a manageable size. Most likely to say, ‘Feeling any…

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“Guilt is a self-indulgence.”

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“I awake. I don’t mean to but clearly I have not appeased the Sleep Gods with enough offerings.”

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It was only when the salt water of my tears ran into my cuts and made them sting that I discovered I was crying.

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I wished there was some kind of switch on my brain. That I could turn it off in the same way that I could turn off the television. Just click it off and immediately empty my mind of all these images and worrying thoughts. And simply leave a blank screen. Or if I could just remove my head and put…

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