Shuggie Bain
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I think it’s what all alkies want anyways.” She shivered. “To die, I mean. Some are just taking the slow road to it.”
“When I see people on Facebook express their loud inflexible certainty about some political thing, what I believe they’re actually saying is I am in great pain, and nobody is paying attention. This is also true for people who believe deeply in soulmates, like, say, your husband. What Jack really needs is the illusion of certainty, the illusion that he will never be hurt again.”
― Wellness
― Wellness
“No one person is meant to love in the same way as another: we all invent it fresh, each time, for each person.”
― The Poisoned King
― The Poisoned King
“And the only thing she was certain of was this: that between ourselves and the world are a million stories, and if we don’t know which among them are true, we might as well try out those that are most humane, most generous, most beautiful, most loving.”
― Wellness
― Wellness
“Alcoholism is a disease with many faces, and some of them look beautiful.”
― Malibu Rising
― Malibu Rising
“She finally comprehended parenthood’s strange paradox: that it was deeply annihilating while at the same time also somehow deeply comforting. It was both soul-devouring and soul-filling.”
― Wellness
― Wellness
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