Katy Buettner

“Until we understand how we reached this place, America will remain a country where getting addicted is far easier than securing treatment.”
― Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America

“There’s this thing that happens, let’s say at school where a bunch of guys are in the bathroom, at the urinal, laughing about some dork that made an anus of himself in gym. You’re all basically nice guys, right? You know right from wrong, and would not in a million years be brutal to the poor guy’s face. And then it happens: the dork was in the shitter. He comes out of the stall with this look. He heard everything. And you realize you’re not really that nice of a guy.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

“Busy is just a euphemism for being so focused on what you don’t have that you never notice what you do.”
― Jodi Picoult, Wish You Were Here

“You can’t grieve something if you don’t let yourself get close enough to care.”
― Jodi Picoult, Wish You Were Here