Recovery Road Quotes

“Life is ridiculous. It's not our fault.”
― Blake Nelson, Recovery Road

“I like if you're reading something, and they're saying something you always thought, but they're putting it in the exact right way”
― Blake Nelson, Recovery Road

“No matter what I do now, there are certain doors I have already closed, certain opportunities I'll never get back. There's nothing to be done, I guess. It is what it is.”
― Blake Nelson, Recovery Road

“That’s the thing: You can change things. You can repair mistakes. You can restart your whole life if you have to.

But some things you never get back. Certain people. Certain moments in time when you don’t know better than to shield your heart.

You don’t see those moments coming, you don’t know it when they’re happening, but later, as the plainness of life begins to show itself, you realize how important they were. You understand who really changed you, who made you what you are.”
― Blake Nelson, Recovery Road

“Normal people never like me.”
― Blake Nelson, Recovery Road

“And then I feel something else. Something that's totally new. I feel the tiniest sensation of hope. Maybe my life isn't over. Maybe my life has just begun.”
― Blake Nelson, Recovery Road

“You need other people, Madeline. There's a great freedom in knowing that. And accepting that. And letting people in. Letting them help you.”
― Blake Nelson, Recovery Road

“This is where I want to be now, alone with myself. Because I know that something has happened to me tonight, something that I’m not going to understand at first, something I need to just absorb and think about and get used to.

This is going to be hard for me. I can’t control this. I can’t stop what it will do to me.

But I want it. I want to be inside it, to feel it, forever.”
― Blake Nelson, Recovery Road

“I watch Stewart. He has the most interesting face. It is beautiful, young, almost childlike, and yet with a power and authority in his features. In another time he would have been a young warrior, a Lost Prince exiled from his kingdom. But he's from this time, this place, so he's just some "at risk" kid who can't find a place for himself in the straight world.”
― Blake Nelson, Recovery Road

“Those people who look so together. They’re as insecure as anyone. Maybe more so. You’re as smart as any of them.”
― Blake Nelson, Recovery Road

“Boys shouldn’t know what power they have. They would panic probably, or just mess things up. But boys are who you give yourself to. Not your parents, or your teachers, or your “future.” You give yourself to a boy.

And then you go for long walks at night and think about them and wonder what they will do to you in the end.”
― Blake Nelson, Recovery Road

“She had no place on this earth. There was no place where she was comfortable, no place she could relax, no place where she felt safe.”
― Blake Nelson, Recovery Road

“But I let myself love him anyway. I let myself love him with all my heart. I give myself that. I tell myself I deserve it.”
― Blake Nelson, Recovery Road

“It's like we've entered a separate reality. Like now it's just the two of us, nothing else matters, no one exists.”
― Blake Nelson, Recovery Road

“I'm a bit of a perfectionist, it turns out. Who knew?”
― Blake Nelson, Recovery Road

“It's so weird being straight. You have no defenses. Shit happens and you have to feel it. You have no choice.”
― Blake Nelson, Recovery Road

“Guys are like buses [...] Why get on the first one you see, when there’s another one coming right after? Or something like that. Or maybe it’s the opposite. I heard that on Oprah.”
― Blake Nelson, Recovery Road

“If I had to describe Trish, I would say: “high school parking lot.” She smokes. She wears too much makeup. She probably gives great hand jobs.”
― Blake Nelson, Recovery Road