David Magee > Quotes

“She wakes up with her temper at a simmer, and the day stokes her anger. By nightfall, it spews out like a raging volcano of devil fury. I wonder if anyone still performs exorcisms. That movie scared all my friends and me, but it scared me for a different reason: I lived that story too many nights”
― David Magee, Dear William: A Father's Memoir of Addiction, Recovery, Love, and Loss

“If opiates and benzos are involved, it often takes eight or nine thirty-day stays before they find the rhythm of sobriety and self-assuredness. The hard part for them is staying alive that long.”
― David Magee, Dear William: A Father's Memoir of Addiction, Recovery, Love, and Loss

“We saw progress in William’s eyes during rare visits, the hollowness carved by substances slowly refilling with remnants of his soul.”
― David Magee, Dear William: A Father's Memoir of Addiction, Recovery, Love, and Loss

“People mistake his kindness and gentleness as a weakness," Murray says. "But when things get uglier and nastier, he is ruthless. He's rare because he can maintain humanity, but he is tough.”
― David Magee, Ford Tough: Bill Ford and the Battle to Rebuild America's Automaker