Quotes by David Sheff

David Sheff

A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white.

Black And White

Contradiction

World

Along with the joy of parenthood, with every child comes a piercing vulnerability. It is at once sublime and terrifying

Children

Joy

Sublime

An alcoholic will steal your wallet and lie to you. A drug addict will steal your wallet and then help you look for it.

Drug

Looks

Lying

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.

Addiction

Alcohol

Caring

Here’s a note to the parents of addicted children: Choose your music carefully…There are millions of treacherous moments.

Children

Moments

Parent

How can both Nics, the loving and considerate and generous one, and the self-obsessed and self-destructive one, be the same person?

Considerate

Obsessed

Self

How innocent we are of our mistakes and how we responsible we are for them.

Innocent

Mistake

Responsible

I am becoming used to an overwhelming, grinding mixture of anger and worry.

Becoming

Mixtures

Worry

I didn’t cause it. I can’t control it. I can’t cure it.

Causes

Cures

I Can

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.

Difficult Times

Mean

Problem

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Black And White

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Considerate

Contradiction

Cures

Deny

Difficult Times

Drug

Emotional

Essentials

Feel Better

Hopeful

I Can

Ideas

Innocent

Joy

Kids

Looks

Loved Ones

Lying

Marijuana

Mean

Mistake

Mixtures

Moments

Obsessed

Parent

People

Problem

Recovery

Responsible

Self

Struggle

Sublime

Weekend

World

Worry

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Quotes by David Sheff

David Sheff

A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white.

Along with the joy of parenthood, with every child comes a piercing vulnerability. It is at once sublime and terrifying

An alcoholic will steal your wallet and lie to you. A drug addict will steal your wallet and then help you look for it.

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.

Here’s a note to the parents of addicted children: Choose your music carefully…There are millions of treacherous moments.

How can both Nics, the loving and considerate and generous one, and the self-obsessed and self-destructive one, be the same person?

How innocent we are of our mistakes and how we responsible we are for them.

I am becoming used to an overwhelming, grinding mixture of anger and worry.

I didn’t cause it. I can’t control it. I can’t cure it.

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.

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