345 Quotes About The-manhattanville-incident

Unfortunately, life has a way of kicking you in the balls, so to speak.

His life had truly taken a turn for the worse when he had to sell his saxophone, in order to eat.

Sometimes, he would have to hide from track workers or urban explorers. It amazed him how busy the subway tunnels could be with activity. He constantly asked himself why teenagers would want to lurk around those dark tunnels seeking adventure. What was the point? Personally, he hated being down there. Most tunnels were dark, damp, and dirty.

Now, here he was in the dorm room of an underground lab, letting some wacko scientist inject him with what one of the other volunteers referred to as a pipe dream. Was it or was it something more?

One day he felt ready to give up on life. He overdosed on heroine and woke up a day later at the hospital, where he was diagnosed with cancer. Just perfect, he thought.

It was there that he met Dr. Herbert Fox, the man with the big dream. Dr. Fox sold his dream like a car salesman selling a lemon.

He wished he were back in Puerto Rico, where life was simpler for him. Ah, those were the good old days.

Whenever his mother was not lying on her back or down on her knees working, she would spend her money getting high.

Before he realized it, he had smoked away the next five years of his life. Nothing else mattered to him, but his next fix.