Not David Sheff Quotes

#1. But here's the rub of addiction. By its nature, people afflicted are unable to do what, from the outside, appears to be a simple solution - don't drink. Don't use drugs. In exchange for that one small sacrifice, you will be given a gift that other terminally ill people would give anything for: life.

David Sheff

#2. How innocent we are of our mistakes and how we responsible we are for them.

David Sheff

#3. 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 relief for parents or children or husbands or wives or others who love them.

David Sheff

#4. An alcoholic will steal your wallet and lie to you. A drug addict will steal your wallet and then help you look for it.

David Sheff

#5. We deny the severity of our loved one's problem not because we are naive, but because we can't know.

David Sheff

#6. I have a body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge.

Spike Milligan

#7. 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. The rationalizations escalate ... It's only marijuana. He gets high only on weekends. At least he's not using hard drugs ...

David Sheff

#8. 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 to the escalation of use and has hampered treatment more than any single other factor.

David Sheff

#9. Here's a note to the parents of addicted children: Choose your music carefully ... There are millions of treacherous moments.

David Sheff

#10. 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 easy, but you can make better decisions.

David Sheff

#11. I am becoming used to an overwhelming, grinding mixture of anger and worry ...

David Sheff

#12. Hatred had invaded her entire being; every cell in her body had hatred in it. She wondered if everyone could smell it on her. It smelled like death and coffee, like lilies and dirt, and it permeated her.

R.L. Griffin

#13. 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 of problems.

David Sheff

#14. I know there is no point in haranguing him because he will just shut down, but I want to cover every angle.

David Sheff

#15. A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.-Colin Powell

Colin Powell

#16. Much have I travelled in the realms of gold for which I thank the Paddington and Westminster Public Libraries.

Peter Porter

#17. This is the way that misery does love company: People are relieved to learn that they are not alone in their suffering, that they are part of something larger, in this case, a societal plague [drugs]
an epidemic of children, an epidemic of families.

David Sheff

#18. Most people could not pronounce Nintendo and were not interested in learning how.

David Sheff

#19. Openness is the first step toward recovery ... addiction remains a secret because of the overwhelming shame associated with it.

David Sheff

#20. A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white.

David Sheff

#21. If you put away those who report accurately, you'll keep only those who know what you want to hear. I can think of nothing more poisonous than to rot in the stink of your own reflections.

Frank Herbert

#22. 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 much company. Others' experiences did help with my emotional struggle ...

David Sheff

#23. I didn't cause it. I can't control it. I can't cure it.

David Sheff

#24. How can both Nics, the loving and considerate and generous one, and the self-obsessed and self-destructive one, be the same person?

David Sheff

#25. Wherever you be, wherever you may, seek the truth, strive for the beautiful, achieve the good.

David Sheff

#26. All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

William Faulkner

#27. While silently brooding, I am drawn to the start of a sweet melody that travels to my ear from afar. I smile, reminded that my heart can dance when my feet can't.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#28. Let this Christmas Day remind us that Christ came to invite us to offer love to ALL humankind and to open the door of God's Kingdom to Every soul.

Neale Donald Walsch

#29. It would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official act my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being Who rules over the universe, Who presides in the councils of nations, and Whose providential aids can supply every human defect ...

George Washington

#30. That's when it struck me that I can't take my life as long as I can still laugh.

David Sheff

#31. Dan was thrilled that the second clue had been safely smuggled out of the church in his pants.
"So, really, I saved the day," he decided.
"Wait a minute," Amy said, "I climbed onto the roof in the middle of a thunderstorm."
"Yeah, but the clue was in my pants.

Rick Riordan

#32. Jasper, who is six, is the only one of us who responds appropriately. He wails, inconsolable for an hour.

David Sheff

#33. 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 there had been only chaos and insanity.

David Sheff

#34. Sometimes I am all right. Is this what they call letting go? I have let go, if letting go means I am all right sometimes.

David Sheff

#35. Gunpei Yokoi, asked his boss, 'What should I make?' Nintendo chief executive Hiroshi Yamauchi replied, 'Something great.'
Game Over Nintendo's Battle to Dominate Videogames

David Sheff

#36. 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 and debilitating as addiction itself.

David Sheff

#37. I think that's the phenomenon of our time is that a lot of women keep themselves in good shape but that there's not a lot of accommodation or people out there to connect with and the technology.

Stockard Channing

#38. Along with the joy of parenthood, with every child comes a piercing vulnerability. It is at once sublime and terrifying

David Sheff

#39. The trick to negotiation was to hold all the cards going in and, even if you didn't, to try to look as though you did.

Eoin Colfer