

“Because when we talk about addiction, we have to talk about collateral damage: the mental health of the kids and adults surrounding the addict. How do you live when your life has been upended by someone else’s health crisis? When you feel guilty about wanting to go to a dance, or be kissed, or go away to college, because right next to you, someone else is suffering?”
― You'd Be Home Now
― You'd Be Home Now

“Maybe people just use different things to fill up the emptiness. Until it becomes less about feeling empty and more about feeding something else.”
― You'd Be Home Now
― You'd Be Home Now

“they should hold your hand when you go out together, no matter what. And they should never walk in front of you. They should walk next to you, because you walk through life together, do you understand?”
― You'd Be Home Now
― You'd Be Home Now

“The young should not die before the old,” she says. “How dare you waste a life you haven’t even lived yet.”
― You'd Be Home Now
― You'd Be Home Now

“The thing about being invisible is, you’d think it would feel light and airy and easy, no pressure, but it doesn’t. It’s the heaviest thing I’ve ever known.”
― You'd Be Home Now
― You'd Be Home Now
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