Michael W. Clune > Quotes

“Gratitude takes time. It’s the fruit of experience. It still feels new to me, I haven’t had it for that long. Gratitude came only after I’d passed through all the other feelings.”
― Michael W Clune, White Out: The Secret Life of Heroin

“To pass through addiction is to come to terms with not being where you are. More and more people are entering the modern world by passing through addiction.”
― Michael W Clune, White Out: The Secret Life of Heroin

“Suspended, The Bard's Tale II, Ultima III, Wulfenstein, Elite, Pirates!, Might and Magic II. I stack them, one on top of the other. My shy blue life climbs slowly up. My climbing life.

When I die, I will remember the color of the sky.”
― Michael W. Clune, Gamelife: A Memoir

“The secret is that the power of dope comes from the first time you do it.”
― Michael W Clune, White Out: The Secret Life of Heroin

“After one year all that will remain of the car is a vague outline. Trees, stop signs, people, and books grow old, crumble and disappear inside our habits.”
― Michael W Clune, White Out: The Secret Life of Heroin

“Isn’t it nice to sit down with a good book and take the phone off the hook”
― Michael W Clune, White Out: The Secret Life of Heroin

“I heard a word I felt I had always known, a word that had slumbered, skeletal, inside every other word my parents had ever spoken. Divorce.”
― Michael W. Clune, Gamelife: A Memoir

“Summer is the flattest season. Season of two dimensions, of shapes stuck on a wall of light.”
― Michael Clune

“The addict, alone among humans, is given something that is always new.”
― Michael W Clune, White Out: The Secret Life of Heroin

“I saw that the backs of the cards were covered with runes. There was a squeal from the doorway.”
― Michael W. Clune, Gamelife: A Memoir

“A flat map is fun in its purest state.”
― Michael W. Clune, Gamelife: A Memoir

“But we advance into the mystery beyond life only by misunderstanding the living.”
― Michael W. Clune, Gamelife: A Memoir