Heather King Quotes

#1. There's nothing inherently interesting about being a drunk
in fact, quite the contrary.

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#2. I didn't want to hear that people lived happily ever after. I wanted to know that other people suffered, too.

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#3. If I've made any "progress" it's that now I know I'll be an alcoholic till the day I die, and that is both my biggest cross and my greatest blessing.

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#4. On the contrary, that someone as weak and

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#5. Children laugh an average of three hundred or more times a day; adults laugh an average of five times a day. We have a lot of catching up to do.

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#6. Know that every mother occasionally feels "at the end of her rope." When you reach the end of your rope, don't add guilt to your frustration. No one said motherhood was going to be easy.

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#7. Life would be vanilla ice cream without 31 flavors of individuality.

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#8. Like the rest of the world, they seemed to have figured out something I didn't know - where they'd come from, where they were going - and moved on.

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#9. I sincerely pity the poor man you marry. I doubt he'll have a moment's peace.

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#10. The irony of instant gratification is that it leaves such lasting scars.

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#11. My heart was beating so hard that for a second I thought I might pass out. It was like revisiting the hole where you'd once been held in solitary confinement: a force field of muscle-memory-stored pain and toxic energy so palpable I was afraid that if I stayed any longer it might suck me back in.

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#12. All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.

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#13. I had no idea what time I'd left, how I'd gotten home, who'd been up here, and how long he, she, or they had stayed. Another night, added to the hundreds that had gone before, shrouded in mystery. Really, when you thought about it, it was creepy. My own life was a secret to me.

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