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  • #1
    Shonda Rhimes
    “Who you are today . . . that’s who you are. Be brave. Be amazing. Be worthy. And every single time you get the chance? Stand up in front of people. Let them see you. Speak. Be heard. Go ahead and have the dry mouth. Let your heart beat so, so fast. Watch everything move in slow motion. So what. You what? You pass out, you die, you poop? No. (And this is really the only lesson you’ll ever need to know.)”
    Shonda Rhimes, Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person

  • #2
    Shonda Rhimes
    “I am not lucky. You know what I am? I am smart, I am talented, I take advantage of the opportunities that come my way and I work really, really hard. Don’t call me lucky. Call me a badass.”
    Shonda Rhimes, Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person

  • #3
    Shonda Rhimes
    “I don't even know who someone is until i've seen how they handle adversity.”
    Shonda Rhimes

  • #4
    Shonda Rhimes
    “You can quit a job. I can’t quit being a mother. I’m a mother forever. Mothers are never off the clock, mothers are never on vacation. Being a mother redefines us, reinvents us, destroys and rebuilds us. Being a mother brings us face-to-face with ourselves as children, with our mothers as human beings, with our darkest fears of who we really are. Being a mother requires us to get it together or risk messing up another person forever. Being a mother yanks our hearts out of our bodies and attaches them to our tiny humans and sends them out into the world, forever hostages.”
    Shonda Rhimes, Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person

  • #5
    Shonda Rhimes
    “Sometimes the toilet paper does not win. Sometimes a broke woman needs the red wine more.”
    Shonda Rhimes, Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person

  • #6
    Shonda Rhimes
    “You know what happens when all of your dreams come true? Nothing. I realized a very simple truth: that success, fame, having all my dreams come true would not fix or improve me, it wasn’t an instant potion for personal growth.”
    Shonda Rhimes, Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person

  • #7
    Shonda Rhimes
    “Dreams are lovely. But they are just dreams. Fleeting, ephemeral, pretty. But dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It's hard work that makes things happen. It's hard work that creates change.”
    Shonda Rhimes

  • #8
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #9
    Robin  Williams
    “Reality is just a crutch for people who can't handle drugs.”
    Robin Williams

  • #10
    Russell Brand
    “Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hamburger.' What a sexy little paradox.”
    Russell Brand, My Booky Wook

  • #11
    Marie Sexton
    “I understand addiction now. I never did before, you know. How could a man (or a woman) do something so self-destructive, knowing that they’re hurting not only themselves, but the people they love? It seemed that it would be so incredibly easy for them to just not take that next drink. Just stop. It’s so simple, really. But as so often happens with me, my arrogance kept me from seeing the truth of the matter.
    I see it now though.
    Every day, I tell myself it will be the last. Every night, as I’m falling asleep in his bed, I tell myself that tomorrow I’ll book a flight to Paris, or Hawaii, or maybe New York. It doesn’t matter where I go, as long as it’s not here. I need to get away from Phoenix—away from him—before this goes even one step further.
    And then he touches me again, and my convictions disappear like smoke in the wind.
    This cannot end well. That’s the crux of the matter, Sweets. I’ve been down this road before—you know I have—and there’s only heartache at the end. There’s no happy ending waiting for me like there was for you and Matt. If I stay here with him, I will become restless and angry. It’s happening already, and I cannot stop it. I’m becoming bitter and terribly resentful. Before long, I will be intolerable, and eventually, he’ll leave me. But if I do what I have to do, what my very nature compels me to do, and move on, the end is no better. One way or another, he’ll be gone. Is it not wiser to end it now, Sweets, before it gets to that point? Is it not better to accept that this happiness I have is destined to self-destruct?
    Tomorrow I will leave. Tomorrow I will stop delaying the inevitable. Tomorrow I will quit lying to myself, and to him.
    Tomorrow.
    What about today, you ask? Today it’s already too late. He’ll be home soon, and I have dinner on the stove, and wine chilling in the fridge. And he will smile at me when he comes through the door, and I will pretend like this fragile, dangerous thing we have created between us can last forever.
    Just one last time, Sweets. Just one last fix. That’s all I need.
    And that is why I now understand addiction.”
    Marie Sexton, Strawberries for Dessert

  • #12
    William S. Burroughs
    “The question is frequently asked: Why does a man become a drug addict?
    The answer is that he usually does not intend to become an addict. You don’t wake up one morning and decide to be a drug addict. It takes at least three months’ shooting twice a day to get any habit at all. And you don’t really know what junk sickness is until you have had several habits. It took me almost six months to get my first habit, and then the withdrawal symptoms were mild. I think it no exaggeration to say it takes about a year and several hundred injections to make an addict.
    The questions, of course, could be asked: Why did you ever try narcotics? Why did you continue using it long enough to become an addict? You become a narcotics addict because you do not have strong motivations in the other direction. Junk wins by default. I tried it as a matter of curiosity. I drifted along taking shots when I could score. I ended up hooked. Most addicts I have talked to report a similar experience. They did not start using drugs for any reason they can remember. They just drifted along until they got hooked. If you have never been addicted, you can have no clear idea what it means to need junk with the addict’s special need. You don’t decide to be an addict. One morning you wake up sick and you’re an addict. (Junky, Prologue, p. xxxviii)”
    William S. Burroughs, Junky

  • #13
    Truman Capote
    “But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius.”
    Truman Capote, Music for Chameleons

  • #14
    Krista Ritchie
    “Wait for me.” The words come out choked and pained. “I need you to wait for me.”
    Krista Ritchie, Addicted to You

  • #15
    Margaret Atwood
    “Every habit he's ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Given the right conditions, all his old addictions would burst into full and luxuriant bloom.”
    Margaret Atwood

  • #16
    Krista Ritchie
    “No one told me you can love someone and still be miserable. How is that possible?”
    Krista Ritchie, Addicted to You

  • #17
    “Mirrors on the ceiling,
    The pink champagne on ice
    And she said 'We are all just prisoners here, of our own device'
    And in the master's chambers,
    They gathered for the feast
    They stab it with their steely knives,
    But they just can't kill the beast

    Last thing I remember, I was
    Running for the door
    I had to find the passage back
    To the place I was before
    'Relax,' said the night man,
    'We are programmed to receive.
    You can check out any time you like,
    But you can never leave ...”
    The Eagles, Hotel California

  • #18
    Amy Reed
    “What if I'm so broken I can never do something as basic as feed myself? Do you realize how twisted that is? It amazes me sometimes that humans still exist. We're just animals, after all. And how can an animal get so removed from nature that it loses the instinct to keep itself alive?”
    Amy Reed, Clean

  • #20
    Ethlie Ann Vare
    “My fear of abandonment is exceeded only by my terror of intimacy.”
    Ethlie Ann Vare

  • #21
    Ashly Lorenzana
    “I'm not crying out for help, but I am sharing my experience in the hopes that readers will get something out of it. I'm not the one who gets to decide what that is, if anything. I'm just starting the "journey" if you will, so I can't possibly know yet what the "message" of my life really is. I only know what has happened so far, and how I've felt up until this moment. I agree that reading about the pain of others is concerning when they are still hurting and in the same situation as when they wrote about it. But what can you do? You can reach out, ask how you can help and be there to listen. You can't save someone who doesn't want to be saved. You can't love someone who doesn't love themselves enough to take care of themselves and stay out of bad situations. Believe me, I know this.”
    Ashly Lorenzana

  • #22
    Ashly Lorenzana
    “Drugs suck more than anything else I have ever liked so much.”
    Ashly Lorenzana

  • #23
    Russell Brand
    “The need to find out what will happen if I don't relent or moderate my actions has been a constant source of difficulty and discomfort in my life.”
    Russell Brand, My Booky Wook

  • #24
    Criss Jami
    “I am a fan of overdoing something, but not running it into the ground. They are complete opposites with only a fine line separating them.”
    Criss Jami, Killosophy

  • #25
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.

    Our government's got a war on drugs....But get this: The two most widely abused and addictive and destructive of all substances are both perfectly legal.

    One, of course, is ethyl alcohol. And President George W. Bush, no less, and by his own admission, was smashed, or tiddley-poo, or four sheets to the wind a good deal of time from when he was sixteen until he was forty. When he was forty-one, he says, Jesus appeared to him and made him knock off the sauce, stop gargling nose paint.

    Other drunks have seen pink elephants.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

  • #26
    Terri Blackstock
    “In her glamorous quest for the darkest light and the lowest high, she now found herself wallowing on the bottom of a filthy garbage bin.”
    Terri Blackstock, Intervention

  • #27
    Linkin Park
    “Memories consume
    Like opening the wound
    I'm picking me apart again

    You all assume
    I'm safe here in my room
    Unless I try to start again.”
    Linkin Park

  • #28
    Ethlie Ann Vare
    “Just because something is addictive doesn't mean that you will get addicted to it. But . . . if your stomach ties up in knots while you count the seconds waiting for a phone call from that special someone . . . if you hear a loud buzzing in your ears when you see a certain person's car (or one just like it) . . . if your eyes burn when you hear a random love song or see a couple holding hands . . . if you suffer the twin agonies of craving for and withdrawing from a series of unrequited crushes or toxic relationships . . . if you always feel like you're clutching at someone's ankle and dragged across the floor as they try to leave the room . . . welcome to the club.”
    Ethlie Ann Vare

  • #29
    David Foster Wallace
    “Why do prostitutes when they get straight always try and get so prim? It's like long-repressed librarian-ambitions come flooding out.”
    David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

  • #30
    J.R. Ward
    “Someone put opera on inside the house. Someone changed it to hip-hop, thank God. Someone started a shower. Someone vacuumed. Again.
    Life. In all its mundane majesty.
    And you couldn't take advantage of it if you were sitting on your ass in the shadows... whether it was in actuality, or metaphorically because you were trapped in an attic's darkness.”
    J.R. Ward, Black Dagger Brotherhood Collection

  • #31
    Crystal Woods
    “If love is a form of substance abuse, I hope to die high.”
    Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading 2



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