I’m not in control,” she said. “I’m getting used to that. That’s how my life is now. But I’m here. It could be a lot worse.
A heavy marijuana habit has terrible side effects: It can make people reclusive, uninteresting, and keep the show Cops on the air for more than 24 years.
At its core, the book is about deciding to leave comfort behind, and then upon burning bridges, changing everything, starting a new life—realizing the new life is just as deadened and even more brutal, but you can’t go home, because you belong nowhere when all is said and done. It’s about divorce. It’s about being an artist. It’s about being in your thirties. It’s about all of these things or none of these things. And it is brilliant. It made me feel better, somehow, that of all of the things I had gotten wrong, he most certainly was not a shitty poet.
This was already a woman lost. Miseducation was supposed to be Hill’s coming-out party, but it ended up ferreting out deep-seated insecurities and exposing her dreams as a mirage offering little in the way of satisfaction or enlightenment.
he truth about healing is that you don’t need to heal to be whole. And by whole, I mean damaged, missing pieces of who you were, your heart—missing what feels like some of your most important parts. And yet, not missing any part of you at all. Being, in truth, larger than you were before.
The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on alcohol” - Mignon McLaughlin
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My aim is to give patients the skills needed to confront their fear of change, rather than to nod my head and ask how they feel.
