

“It was our pain that pulled us together like magnets, that medicinal click of solidarity between two hurting people. But as powerful as pain might be, it was never going to keep us together.”
― The Bright Years
― The Bright Years

“The thing about alcoholism is that there’s sickness on both sides. Drink, you’re sick. Don’t drink, you’re sick. A blurred line between medicine and poison.”
― The Bright Years
― The Bright Years

“this is where it starts. We begin to say goodbye as soon as we say hello. Death is a corollary of birth, and to welcome life is to guarantee loss.”
― The Bright Years
― The Bright Years

“Holding on eventually becomes more painful than letting go.”
― The Bright Years
― The Bright Years

“You must not measure salvation like an ingredient that’s either there or not. Yes, salvation can be a heroic moment of rescue. But more often, it’s smaller. Slower.”
― The Bright Years
― The Bright Years

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