The Adderall Diaries Quotes

“A stranger can see in an instant something in you that you might spend years learning about yourself. How awful we all are when we look at ourselves under a light, finally seeing our reflections. How little we know about ourselves. How much forgiveness it must take to love a person, to choose not to see their flaws, or to see those flaws and love the person anyway. If you never forgive you’ll always be alone.”
― Stephen Elliott, The Adderall Diaries

“We understand the world by how we retrieve memories, re-order information into stories to justify how we feel.”
― Stephen Elliott, The Adderall Diaries

“How awful we are all when we look at ourselves under a light, finally seeing our reflections+. How little we know about ourselves. How much forgivennes it must take to love a person , to choose not to see their flaws, or to see those flaws and love the person anyway. If you never forgive you'll always be alone.”
― Stephen Elliott, The Adderall Diaries: A Memoir of Moods, Masochism, and Murder

“We all think we’re retaliating,” I say. “That’s the nature of conflict. We all think our actions are justified by someone else’s actions. But actually, we’re responsible for what we do.”
― Stephen Elliott, The Adderall Diaries

“In every book I ever wrote the point was to do as much as you could after coming to terms with your limitations.”
― Stephen Elliott, The Adderall Diaries

“According to Jung, a stranger can see in an instant something in you that you might spend years learning about yourself.”
― Stephen Elliott, The Adderall Diaries

“When we die our argument dies with us. The argument we never articulated well enough, that we were failed by our parents, and the schools, and the state. The cause of death is the missing safety net.”
― Stephen Elliott, The Adderall Diaries

“They both knew when it was appropriate to eat and how to give a compliment, and spent a lot of time saying hello and goodbye.”
― Stephen Elliott, The Adderall Diaries