Beautiful Boy: A Heartbreaking Memoir of a Father's Struggle with His Son's Addiction and the Journey to Recovery

by David Sheff

That’s when it struck me that I can’t take my life as long as I can still laugh.”

I begin praying, pleading with a god I have never believed in.

“Keep coming back,” she says. Sometimes it startles me that life goes on, but it does, inexorably.

Next we hear Jasper say, “Do you think that Nic looks like Bob Dylan?”

Im so hungry i could eat timothee chalamet

God or no god, this barely ponderable and impossible-to-understand system of complexity and beauty is profound enough to feel like a miracle. Consciousness feels like a miracle. The constellation of these impulses that we call love feels like a miracle. The miracles do not cancel out evil, but I accept evil in order to participate in the miraculous.