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1. "I'm not sure if I know any 'functional' families, if functional means a family without difficult times and members who don't have a full range of problems." ~ David Sheff
2. "Once and for all, people must understand that addiction is a disease. It's critical if we're going to effectively prevent and treat addiction. Accepting that addiction is an illness will transform our approach to public policy, research, insurance, and criminality; it will change how we feel about addicts, and how they feel about themselves. There's another essential reason why we must understand that addiction is an illness and not just bad behavior: We punish bad behavior. We treat illness." ~ David Sheff
3. "But here's the rub of addiction. By its nature, people afflicted are unable to do what, from the outside, appears to be a simple solution—don't drink. Don't use drugs. In exchange for that one small sacrifice, you will be given a gift that other terminally ill people would give anything for: life." ~ David Sheff
4. "... Gunpei Yokoi, asked his boss, 'What should I make?' Nintendo chief executive Hiroshi Yamauchi replied, 'Something great.'Game Over Nintendo's Battle to Dominate Videogames" ~ David Sheff
5. "An alcoholic will steal your wallet and lie to you. A drug addict will steal your wallet and then help you look for it." ~ David Sheff
6. "A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white." ~ David Sheff
7. "I didn't cause it. I can't control it. I can't cure it." ~ David Sheff
8. "I am becoming used to an overwhelming, grinding mixture of anger and worry..." ~ David Sheff
9. "We deny the severity of our loved one's problem not because we are naive, but because we can't know." ~ David Sheff
10. "How innocent we are of our mistakes and how we responsible we are for them." ~ David Sheff
11. "Why does it help to read others' stories? It is not only that misery loves company, because (I learned) misery is too self-absorbed to want much company. Others' experiences did help with my emotional struggle..." ~ David Sheff
12. "He had black fingernails and drove a hearse. Everything about him cried out, 'Look at me, look at me,' and when you looked at him, he would snap, 'Who the fuck are you looking at?' If you subscribe to the idea that addiction is a disease, it is startling to see how many of these children- paranoid, anxious, bruised, tremulous, withered, in some cases psychotic - are seriously ill, slowly dying. We'd never allow such a scene if these kids had any other disease. They would be in a hospital, not on the streets." ~ David Sheff
13. "Through Nic's drug addiction, I have learned that parents can bear almost anything....I shock myself with my ability to rationalize and tolerate things once unthinkable. The rationalizations escalate....It's only marijuana. He gets high only on weekends. At least he's not using hard drugs...." ~ David Sheff
14. "Caring about an addict is as complex and fraught and debilitating as addiction itself." ~ David Sheff
15. "Here's a note to the parents of addicted children: Choose your music carefully...There are millions of treacherous moments." ~ David Sheff
16. "At my worst, I even resented Nic because an addict, at least when high, has a momentary respite from his suffering. There is no similar relief for parents or children or husbands or wives or others who love them." ~ David Sheff
17. "Along with the joy of parenthood, with every child comes a piercing vulnerability. It is at once sublime and terrifying" ~ David Sheff
18. "When I transformed my random and raw words into sentences, sentences into paragraphs, and paragraphs into chapters, a semblance of order and sanity appeared where there had been only chaos and insanity." ~ David Sheff
19. "Jasper, who is six, is the only one of us who responds appropriately. He wails, inconsolable for an hour." ~ David Sheff
20. "I know there is no point in haranguing him because he will just shut down, but I want to cover every angle." ~ David Sheff
21. "That's when it struck me that I can't take my life as long as I can still laugh." ~ David Sheff
22. "In his suicide note, Kurt Cobain wrote, "It's better to burn out than to fade away." He was quoting a Neil Young song about Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols. When I was twenty-four, I interviewed John Lennon. I asked him about this sentiment, one that pervades rock and roll. He took strong, outraged exception to it. "It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out, " he said. "I worship people who survive. I'll take the living and the healthy." ~ David Sheff

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