130 Quotes by David Sheff

No, I don't believe in tough love. I just believe in love.

At some point, parents may become inured to a child's self-destruction, but I never did.

Your children live or die without you. No matter what we do, no matter how we agonize or obsess, we cannot choose for our children whether they live or die. It's a devastating realization, but liberating.

Drugs shift the way that we think. So, yeah, the logical thing would be to get help, but that's not the way addicts operate, which is why it's really, really hard to get someone to understand that they need treatment.

When I was a child, my parents didn't know anything about drugs. They didn't even drink.

I finally stopped worrying what people would think. I found out that almost everybody has some secret, some dark fear that if people knew this about them they wouldn't like them anymore, or would look down on them.

Every relapse is dangerous, but often it takes multiple relapses before someone finally gets sober for good.

I don't object to AA at all - only the programs that insist that it's the only way to get clean and to stay clean.

There isn't just one way to get healthy and sober and to stop using.