Ashley ☻

“There are two kinds of drug addicts, the ones who want to go up, and the ones who want to go down. I could never understand the coke guys—why would anyone want to feel more present, more busy? I was a downer guy, I wanted to melt into my couch and feel wonderful while watching movies over and over again. I was a quiet addict, not the bull-in-a-china-shop kind.”
― Matthew Perry, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing

“At some point, the rehab geniuses decided that to help my stomach “pain,” they’d put some kind of weird medical device in my back, but they’d need to do surgery to insert it. So I stayed up all night, taking 1,800 milligrams of hydrocodone ahead of the next day’s surgery.”
― Matthew Perry, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing

“A year and a half later, I was taking fifty-five of those pills a day. I weighed 128 pounds when I checked into Hazelden rehab in Minnesota, my life in ruins. I was in raw fear, certain I was going to die, having no idea what had happened to me. I wasn’t trying to die; I was just trying to feel better.”
― Matthew Perry, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing

“See, that’s some twenty-eight-year-old shit right there. You think your cognac-drinking, receding-hairline, pushing-fifty-year-old Our Time date is gonna give you that acrobatic sex? He’s not. He threw his back out playing golf.”
― Abby Jimenez, Part of Your World