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I didn’t grow up listening to conservative arguments—my mother loved me—but I found it oddly comforting to broaden my political ideology inputs while breathing in large amounts of cleaning chemicals.
“It was never a love story. The story was always about my not-enoughness and my black-sheepness and my total inability to not feel like an empty piece of inconsequential shit who couldn’t do life.”
― Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol
― Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol
“All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.”
― Watership Down
― Watership Down
“We take off our shoes. Mine don't fit right anyway, since in the spirit of waste-not-want-not that rules 13, I was issued a pair someone had outgrown. Apparently, one of us walks funny, because they're broken in all wrong.”
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“There is the life that most of us live, and then there is the life we have buried deep inside us, the life we know we’re supposed to be living.”
― Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol
― Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol
“It was never a love story. The story was always about my not-enoughness and my black-sheepness and my total inability to not feel like an empty piece of inconsequential shit who couldn’t do life. Alcohol was just part of the story of me, and it shape-shifted as I shape-shifted. There’s enough of a story to convince you how entirely normal my drinking was, and there’s enough of a story to foreshadow a problem.”
― Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol
― Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol
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