The Step Bet Quotes

“I don’t want anyone to know what he did. People don’t get it. They just blame him, I guess ’cause they don’t understand addiction. Like they never made mistakes. Never experimented or got too drunk. Sometimes I wish I could get people to imagine…what if the biggest mistake they ever made at the worst moment of their life, when they couldn’t see a reason to keep going, happened to have lifelong consequences? If that horrible moment of weakness altered their brain chemistry so much that they’d never be the same again? Was it so terrible for him to be vulnerable? Was it so terrible for him to need something to ease the pain? Was it his fault that when someone else had a mentor or friend who could help them, he happened to meet someone who could only make it worse?”
― Riley Hart, The Step Bet

“People are starving and don’t have homes or jobs, kids are falling behind in education, the mental health crisis is out of control, yet they’re worried about who uses what bathrooms and not allowing people to go by the pronouns they want. It makes no fucking sense.”
― Riley Hart, The Step Bet

“like that—getting close and letting them in only for them to crush you—makes my skin feel like it’s breaking out in hives.”
― Riley Hart, The Step Bet