Alcoholic Parent Quotes

“And so Harry became proficient in the task of cleaning up vomit.”
― Julia Quinn, What Happens in London

“When she's not talking to him the house is heavy and cold and we know we're not supposed to talk to him either for fear she'll give us the bitter look. We know Dad has done the bad thing and we know you can make anyone suffer by not talking to him. Even little Michael knows that when Dad does the bad thing you don't talk to him from Friday to Monday and when he tries to lift you to his lap you run to Mam.”
― Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes

“You can't take credit for sobering him up, because he did that. And if he starts drinking again, you can't take the blame, because he'd do that, too.”
― Stephen King, Fairy Tale

“Perhaps nothing so accurately characterizes dysfunctional families as denial. The denial forces members to keep believing the myths and vital lies in spite of the facts, or to keep expecting that the same behaviors will have different outcomes.
Dad's not an alcoholic because he never drinks in the morning, in spite of the fact that he's drunk every night.”
― John Bradshaw, Bradshaw on the Family: A New Way of Creating Solid Self-Esteem

“I didn't exactly hate my father...I felt contempt for him.”
― Stephen King, Fairy Tale

“I never stopped loving my dad, even when I didn't like him.”
― Stephen King, Fairy Tale

“Sometimes I did still resent him for his lost years, because they were my lost years too. Mostly, I was just glad he was back.”
― Stephen King, Fairy Tale

“Clearly everyone in my life who should have been vertical was horizontal.”
― Sebastian Horsley, Dandy in the Underworld