Darien Mounts

“Where is the road to your heart?"
With one finger he lifted my chin to meet his eyes. "Don't you know? You're the one who paved it.”
― Laurelin Paige, Forever with You

“Then, all of a sudden, everything changed. He dropped his hand to his side and his expression melted and transformed, and for the first time in days, the look in his eyes said I was the center of his world again. The crux of his universe. The core of his existence.”
― Laurelin Paige, Forever with You

“The hardcore drug addicts that I treat, are, without exception, people who have had extraordinarily difficult lives. The commonality is childhood abuse. These people all enter life under extremely adverse circumstances. Not only did they not get what they need for healthy development; they actually got negative circumstances of neglect. I don’t have a single female patient in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver who wasn’t sexually abused, for example, as were many of the men, or abused, neglected and abandoned serially, over and over again. That’s what sets up the brain biology of addiction. In other words, the addiction is related both psychologically, in terms of emotional pain relief, and neurobiological development to early adversity.”
― Gabor Maté

“Perhaps, the problem is not the intensity of your love, but the quality of the people you are loving.”
― Warsan Shire