130 Quotes by David Sheff

Fortunately there is a beautiful boy, unfortunately he has a terrible disease. Fortunately there is love and joy, unfortunately there is pain and misery. Fortunately this story is not over.

.. in the San Francisco Bay Area, where one out of every three people seem to be a therapist of some sort. What does this say about us? Scott Peck said that the sickest and healthiest people are in therapy. Which are we?

A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white.

I didn't cause it. I can't control it. I can't cure it.

I would miss having Nic in my life. I would miss his funny phone messages and his humor, the stories, our talks, our walks, watching movies with him, dinners together, and the transcendent feeling between us that is love.I would miss all of it.I miss it now.And here it sinks in: I don't have it now. I have not had it whenever Nic has been on drugs.Nic is absent, only his shell remains. I have been afraid - terrified - to lose Nic, but I have lost him.

Fortunately I have a son, my beautiful boy. Unfortunately he is a drug addict.Fortunately he is in recovery.Unfortunately he relapses.Fortunately he is in recovery again.Unfortunately he relapses.Fortunately he is in recovery again.Unfortunately he relapses.Fortunately he is not dead.

Nic begins writing hard, a word, I, two words, am, three words, sorry, writes them again, writes them again, writes them again, writes them again. He cannot, it seems, stop writing them. It is bullshit, a cheap attempt at - it is not bullshit, he is trying with excruciating desperation, which I can feel coming from him, to say something, to get out something that he cannot get out.It's easy to forget that no matter how hard it is for us, it is harder for him.

Nic is writing 'I am sorry', and I want to cry. No, I think, don't let him in again. No don't let him in again. No don't let him in again.

Nic ha fatto uso di droghe, a fasi alterne, per oltre un decennio, e in quegli anni credo di avere sentito, pensato e fatto quasi tutto quello che un genitore può sentire, pensare e fare.