Audrey

“If you ever feel alone, just remember someone else is feeling the same. Loneliness’s greatest weapon is making you believe you’re the only one –the exception –that everyone else is thriving and fulfilled. It’s okay if this season is rough for you. All seeds must be buried before they bloom.”
― Brittany Burgunder

“Drinking alone is what you do when you can’t stand the feeling of living in your own skin. Boswell describes this in his Life of Johnson: “I drink alone,” Johnson explains, “to get rid of myself, to send myself away. Wine makes a man better pleased with himself.”
― Caroline Knapp, Drinking: A Love Story

“to treat people in recovery as a resource in their own recovery, not like a vessel that needs to be filled with someone else’s help.”
― Alison Jones Webb, Recovery Allies: How to Support Addiction Recovery and Build Recovery-Friendly Communities

“Addiction can show us what is deeply suspect about nostalgia. That drive to return to the past isn’t an innocent one. It’s about stopping your passage to the future, it’s a symptom of fear of death, and the love of predictable experience. And the love of predictable experience, not the drug itself, is the major damage done to heroin users. Not getting on with your life is much more likely than going to the emergency room, and much harder to discern from the inside.”
― Ann Marlowe, How to Stop Time: Heroin from A to Z