The Sober Diaries Quotes

“Anxiety is a sign that you’re pushing boundaries, moving forward, grabbing the bull by the horns. IT IS GOOD.”
― Clare Pooley, The Sober Diaries: The brave and brilliantly funny memoir that is changing lives

“That’s the thing about the wine witch. She cuts brilliant lives short, and ensures that others are only half lived. She makes children grow up thinking it is normal for adults to drink all evening, every evening. She fixes it so mothers are woken up in the middle of the night by a stranger telling them their only child was found dead in a ditch, next to someone she barely knew.”
― Clare Pooley, The Sober Diaries: The brave and brilliantly funny memoir that is changing lives

“I hate myself. Something has to change.”
― Clare Pooley, The Sober Diaries: The brave and brilliantly funny memoir that is changing lives

“The simplest things are the best, and really do not need artificial stimulants to make them any better.”
― Clare Pooley, The Sober Diaries: The brave and brilliantly funny memoir that is changing lives

“Only a really great friend realises that there are few situations that can’t be improved by great stationery.”
― Clare Pooley, The Sober Diaries: The brave and brilliantly funny memoir that is changing lives

“It’s been scientifically proven that when we receive a compliment, our brains are flooded with serotonin, which is an amazing (free, legal and harmless) drug.”
― Clare Pooley, The Sober Diaries: The brave and brilliantly funny memoir that is changing lives

“I am a little miffed, however, that my proposed team name ‘The Big Fact Hunt’ has been vetoed.”
― Clare Pooley, The Sober Diaries: The brave and brilliantly funny memoir that is changing lives

“But today I’m having to live with the restless serpents. I remind myself that absolutely everything that is worth doing, everything that is game-changing in life, is accompanied by that feeling. If you’re avoiding anxiety you’re not properly living, I remind myself. I felt the same before every job interview, every first date, before getting married, before giving birth, before going off backpacking. Where would I be now if I’d avoided doing all those things (or got totally drunk beforehand)?”
― Clare Pooley, The Sober Diaries: The brave and brilliantly funny memoir that is changing lives

“life, is accompanied by that feeling. If you’re avoiding anxiety you’re not properly living, I remind myself. I felt the same before every job interview, every first date, before getting married, before giving birth, before going off backpacking. Where would I be now if I’d avoided doing all those things (or got totally drunk beforehand)? Anxiety is a sign that you’re pushing boundaries, moving forward, grabbing the bull by the horns. IT IS GOOD.”
― Clare Pooley, The Sober Diaries: The brave and brilliantly funny memoir that is changing lives