Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
David Sheff
Top 10 Best Quotes
“In his suicide note, Kurt Cobain wrote, "It's better to burn out than to fade away." He was quoting a Neil Young song about Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols. When I was twenty-four, I interviewed John Lennon. I asked him about this sentiment, one that pervades rock and roll. He took strong, outraged exception to it. "It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out, " he said. "I worship people who survive. I'll take the living and the healthy.”
“An alcoholic will steal your wallet and lie to you. A drug addict will steal your wallet and then help you look for it.”
“A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white.”
“Anyone who has lived through it, or those who are now living through it, knows that caring about an addict is as complex and fraught and debilitating as addiction itself.”
“We deny the severity of our loved one's problem not because we are naive, but because we can't know.”
“I'm not sure if I know any 'functional' families, if functional means a family without difficult times and members who don't have a full range of problems.”
“How can both Nics, the loving and considerate and generous one, and the self-obsessed and self-destructive one, be the same person?”
“Fortunately I have a son, my beautiful boy Unfortunately he is a drug addict. Fortunately he is in recovery. Unfortunately he relapses. Fortunately he is in recovery again. Unfortunately he relapses. Fortunately he is not dead.”
“I am becoming used to an overwhelming, grinding mixture of anger and worry...”
“Why does it help to read others' stories? It is not only that misery loves company, because (I learned) misery is too self-absorbed to want much company. Others' experiences did help with my emotional struggle...”
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