American Drug Addict Quotes

“Drugs were merely a symptom of my inability to find peace.  And no matter how fast I ran, I could never outrun myself.”
― Brett Douglas, American Drug Addict: A Memoir

“An addict’s mind is constantly playing a chess game with the body, and the mind is always ten moves ahead.”
― Brett Douglas, American Drug Addict: A Memoir

“When a sober person is living with a practicing addict, even when both people are cordial, a tension exists, a disconnect that is impossible to mend.”
― Brett Douglas, American Drug Addict: A Memoir

“An addict’s ability to ignore their past actions appears to others as a missing conscience, a lack of morality, or a complete loss of empathy for others.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  Although these painful memories are not consciously dwelled on, every single one of them lingers.  The past follows an addict around like a specter, hardly visible but truly terrifying.  This self-loathing is temporally alleviated by drugs. They’re called painkillers for a reason. The drugs lead to more actions causing shame, guilt, and remorse.  This routine becomes a circular, self-fulfilling prophecy.  Much like a freight train rolling down a hill, the weight and momentum become near impossible to stop.”
― Brett Douglas, American Drug Addict: A Memoir

“I realized at that moment how someone’s preoccupation with external appearances can be hiding something unattractive on the inside. That deserves repeating.”
― Brett Douglas, American Drug Addict: A Memoir

“13.  Always anticipate other people’s potential fuck-ups”
― Brett Douglas, American Drug Addict: A Memoir

“Talking to him was as enthralling as watching centipedes fuck.”
― Brett Douglas, American Drug Addict: A Memoir

“No matter how small the detail, never compromise yourself for love’s sake”
― Brett Douglas, American Drug Addict: A Memoir

“Those things that make us different, make us better”
― Brett Douglas, American Drug Addict: A Memoir

“When termites start their assault on a structure, it shows no discernable signs of instability. Much was our relationship. It appeared stable. We were two young people trying to secure our footing in a wild love affair. But, as we all know, ignoring termites never makes them go away.”
― Brett Douglas, American Drug Addict: A Memoir

“The closest we come to immortality is the positive legacy we are remembered by”
― Brett Douglas, American Drug Addict: A Memoir

“Diabetes is a disease. Diabetics are not responsible for having the disease. Diabetics are responsible for taking their insulin.”
― Brett Douglas, American Drug Addict: A Memoir

“I realized at that moment how someone’s preoccupation with external appearances can be hiding something unattractive on the inside.”
― Brett Douglas, American Drug Addict: A Memoir

“In the 21st century, where cameras and mirrors are everywhere, I’m amazed at how difficult seeing myself really is.”
― Brett Douglas, American Drug Addict: A Memoir

“They never get the chance to experience the blessing of loss, the gift of despair, and the richness of forced introspection.”
― Brett Douglas, American Drug Addict: A Memoir

“Polaroid pictures of them wearing bell-bottom jeans, leather vests, round lens glasses, and headbands.  They were in their teens when I was born and in the partying stage of their lives when I was young.  At the age of five, I opened my parents’ sock drawer.  Instead of socks, it was filled with dead plants.  I didn’t know what it was; I just knew none of my drawers were filled with that stuff.  I never saw my parents smoke pot or do any other type of drug, but I recognized changes in their behavior.  When they had friends over, I noticed everyone would regularly leave the living room and go into the kitchen, followed by an odd smell which permeated the room.  I didn’t know what was happening.  I just knew this only occurred when guests were”
― Brett Douglas, American Drug Addict: A Memoir

“Being a product of Bea and Jack, he is the antithesis of Mom.  I don’t mean he doesn’t love me, rather his expression of love, acceptance, and even his presence in my life is as conditional as Mom’s love is unconditional.  He has an unwavering opinion of right and wrong, success and failure, and how a man should behave.  This belief is so rigid, I’ve always felt I wasn’t the type of person he wanted as a son. To”
― Brett Douglas, American Drug Addict: A Memoir

“Baldies are responsible for covering their scalps with Chia Pet seeds and watering them regularly.”
― Brett Douglas, American Drug Addict: A Memoir

“When fear is genuine, paranoia become insightfulness”
― Brett Douglas, American Drug Addict: A Memoir

“This newly discovered concept also resolved another quandary.  Scientific knowledge and spiritual beliefs had always seemed mutually exclusive.  In other words, the two mindsets appeared contrary to one another.  For the first time, I understood the two ideas were harmonious.  If God is the natural order of life, then science is the study of God’s marvel.  If God created Man, He did so through the process of evolution, which is a natural progression.  Man is part of nature, not above it.  Science is man’s feeble attempt to understand how God works.”
― Brett Douglas, American Drug Addict: A Memoir

“Addiction is one of the few mental diseases that is acquired from behavior.”
― Brett Douglas, American Drug Addict: A Memoir

“Alcohol is a drug, and an alcoholic is a drug addict whose drug of choice is alcohol.”
― Brett Douglas, American Drug Addict: A Memoir

“Always anticipate other people’s potential fuck-ups”
― Brett Douglas, American Drug Addict: A Memoir

“Sometimes, what seems like an insignificant decision can become a life changing event”
― Brett Douglas, American Drug Addict: A Memoir

“Perhaps grief is spawned from regret over missed opportunities which are now forever unavailable.”
― Brett Douglas, American Drug Addict: A Memoir

“A preoccupation with external appearances is sometimes used to hide something unattractive on the inside”
― Brett Douglas, American Drug Addict: A Memoir

“God suffers from envy, He must also suffer from the other Seven Deadly Sins, which makes Him an angry, fat, egotistical, womanizing, filthy, titty-baby.  Wow!  Simon Cowell is God!”
― Brett Douglas, American Drug Addict: A Memoir

“Jesse reached into a cabinet and produced a plate holding a pile of cocaine and some needles.  Does everyone encounter multiple opportunities to do intravenous drugs, or is it just me? ”
― Brett Douglas, American Drug Addict: A Memoir