Shauna

“It was so sick, I started laughing," she says. "I laughed and cried at the same time. That's when it struck me that I can't take my life as long as I can still laugh.”
― David Sheff, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

“From them, I learned another lesson: that I can accept-in fact am relieved to accept-a world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white. There is much good, but to enjoy the beauty, the love, one must bear the painful.”
― David Sheff, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

“Grief fills the room up of my absent child,
Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me,
Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words,
Remembers me of all his gracious parts,
Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form;
Then have I reason to be fond of grief.”
― David Sheff, Beautiful Boy

“The devout are not spared.”
― David Sheff, Beautiful Boy