“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.”
― Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
― Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
“You know a guy a longtime, and I mean really know him, you don't get used to the idea that he's dead just overnight.”
― The Outsiders
― The Outsiders
“Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.”
― Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
― Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
“Anne Lamott advises, “Try not to compare your insides with other people’s outsides.”
― Beautiful Boy
― Beautiful Boy
“You're as sick as your secrets.”
― Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
― Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
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