Before I Die Quotes

“I remember, the day he told me… he was eighteen, and we’d been at war for three or four years… Maureen, you’ll know what I mean when I say he was the original teenager from hell. You know what they can be like. We’d struggled to pull him back from the brink so many times, but of all the things I imagined him doing, it was never that, never heroin. That wasn’t something we would ever have thought of. God help me, but I only ever heard of heroin as something from the inner city, a problem in deprived areas for kids with nothing, but not for my son, not Michael.’ Frank’s eyes were lost in”
― Jackie Morrissey, Before I Die

“can’t explain to you what it’s like, Maureen, with Michael having that sort of problem. There’s nothing I can do for him. Heroin. It’s like a slow death sentence, except that I can tell you, it doesn’t just take the addict, it destroys everybody around them, everyone who loves them… it sucks the joy out of living.’ His voice quavered to a halt.”
― Jackie Morrissey, Before I Die