We All Fall Down Quotes

“We go out into this fucked up world together.”
― Nic Sheff, We All Fall Down: Living with Addiction

“What’s glamorous is being a good father, a good husband, a good fucking dog owner. That’s what I care about today. That’s what matters. I will devote everything to that. And I will succeed. Because I cannot fall down again. I will not fall down again. I mean, I don’t have to fall. None of us have to fall. We don’t all fall down. We don’t. So I’m over this drug shit. It’s done. And this is my last recovery memoir ever.”
― Nic Sheff, We All Fall Down: Living with Addiction

“I want to stay hidden in this apartment forever. I want to be kept like a house cat.”
― Nic Sheff, We All Fall Down: Living with Addiction

“editor in New York and my mom and dad on the phone. My body is weak and bloated. I’m slowly poisoning myself to death. And it’s not like I haven’t seen what this shit does to people. The most fucked-up detoxes I’ve ever seen are the people coming off alcohol. It’s worse than heroin, worse than benzos, worse than anything. Alcohol can pickle your brain—leaving you helpless, like a child—infantilized—shitting in your pants—ranting madness—disoriented—angry—terrified. But that’s not gonna be me, I mean, it can’t be. I may hate myself. I may fantasize about suicide. But I’m way too vain to let myself die an alcoholic death. There’s nothing glamorous about alcoholism. You don’t go out like Nic Cage in Leaving Las Vegas, with a gorgeous woman riding you till your heart stops. Alcoholism takes you down slow, robbing you of every last bit of dignity on your way”
― Nic Sheff, We All Fall Down: Living with Addiction

“The world's turning a whole lot faster than it should be.”
― Nic Sheff, We All Fall Down: Living with Addiction

“It's the outside world that's the prison. The outside world of jobs and cars and cell phones and apartments and grocery stores. Appropriate clothing, plans for a Saturday night, loneliness.”
― Nic Sheff, We All Fall Down: Living with Addiction

“I only wish that when I was younger I could’ve understood what alcoholism really is—a genetic mutation, a mental illness, and a lifelong battle. Maybe then I would’ve been able to recognize the signs of my own budding alcoholism before my whole life was taken over.”
― Nic Sheff, We All Fall Down: Living with Addiction

“Having to be sober was like being a forty-year-old trapped in a young adult’s body. How could I relate to any of my peers? It was like I’d come from a totally different planet.”
― Nic Sheff, We All Fall Down: Living with Addiction

“When I open the door, the cold rushes immediately into the lodge, as though it had been pounding there the whole time, fighting desperately to smash through the windows—to tear the frames from their hinges—to come flooding in—to drown us all in icy seas—snowcapped waves. As though our world inside should never have existed at all.”
― Nic Sheff, We All Fall Down: Living with Addiction