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“The thing about being invisible is, you’d think it would feel light and airy and easy, no pressure, but it doesn’t. It’s the heaviest thing I’ve ever known.”
― You'd Be Home Now
― You'd Be Home Now
“The young should not die before the old,” she says. “How dare you waste a life you haven’t even lived yet.”
― You'd Be Home Now
― You'd Be Home Now
“How dare you waste a life you haven’t even lived yet.”
― You'd Be Home Now
― You'd Be Home Now
“Someone I used to know said that’s the problem with adults. They just see kids as they want them to be, what they aren’t, and not as they are. I think about that all the time. Like, how much time and pain and suffering could be eliminated if you just accepted the kid in front of you and stopped trying to fix them. Maybe there is no “fixing.” Maybe there is just heartbreak and love and trying to help them stay alive, whatever it takes.”
― You'd Be Home Now
― You'd Be Home Now
“Because when we talk about addiction, we have to talk about collateral damage: the mental health of the kids and adults surrounding the addict. How do you live when your life has been upended by someone else’s health crisis? When you feel guilty about wanting to go to a dance, or be kissed, or go away to college, because right next to you, someone else is suffering?”
― You'd Be Home Now
― You'd Be Home Now
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