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“The risks may be formidable, but the high is sublime. Opioids can deliver you, if only for a few minutes, from physical or emotional pain, from discomfort, from anxiety, from need. It is like no other human experience. "I'll die young," the comedian Lenny Bruce once said of his own addiction. "But it's like kissing God." (He did die young, naked on his bathroom floor, from a morphine overdose, at forty.)”
― Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
― Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
“he will never let any player in any of them wear number "16." He will always keep hoping that Benji is going to turn up one day and demand his jersey.
There's a hockey puck on a gravestone in Beartown. The writing is small, so that all the words can fit. 'Still the bravest bastard I know.' Beside the puck lies a watch.”
― Beartown
There's a hockey puck on a gravestone in Beartown. The writing is small, so that all the words can fit. 'Still the bravest bastard I know.' Beside the puck lies a watch.”
― Beartown
“His mom always says that they must be grateful, the pair of them, and he understands her. No one is more grateful than her, towards this country, this town, these people, and this club, toward the council, their neighbours, her employer. Grateful, grateful, grateful. That's the role of mothers. But the role of children is to dream. So her son dreams that his mother will one day be able to walk into a room without having to apologise.”
― Beartown
― Beartown
“It felt joyous and frustrating and spoke to some truth I couldn't express; my vocabulary was too limited, my words too loose a net in which to catch it.”
― The Silent Patient
― The Silent Patient
“I found, tucked between two books, two envelopes, our names in his handwriting. I opened my envelope, my heart thrumming, and saw my name - Dear Harold - and read his note from decades ago, from the day of his adoption and cried, sobbed, really, and then I slipped the disc into the computer and heard his voice, and although I would have cried anyway for its beauty, I cried more because it was his. And then Julia came home and found me and read her note and we cried all over again.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
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