Quotes from book

Scar Tissue

“A certain amount of volatility and drama can me healthy and keep things fun and interesting if you're willing at any moment during a fight to say, 'This means nothing. I love you, let's forget about it.”

“When I looked into her eyes, I saw an invisible spirit of something that I already loved.”

“Every true artist is at war with the world.”

“One of the better definitions of insanity - doing the exact same thing over and over and expecting the result to be different.”

“I stopped hating and started just being. My whole life, I had been the most defensive person you'd meet, unable to tolerate any criticism. But now I started listening and being.”

“I was like a clock that had exploded- my springs were hanging out, my hands were cockeyed, and my numbers were falling off.”

“When you start putting pen to paper, you see a side of your personal truth that doesn't otherwise reveal itself in conversation or thought.”

“Once you've seen a solution to the disease that's tearing you apart, relapsing is never fun.”

“I'm still a little bent, a little crooked, but all things considered, I can't complain.”

“Time and distance have a way of playing tricks with your best intentions.”

“It didn't matter if I got bitten by a dog or I ripped my pants on the fence post or I poked myself in the eye with a tree branch that I was crawling over, it was all about the shortcut. My whole life I took the shortcut, and I ended up lost.”

“I was starting to come to grips with the fact that I had created a lot of pain and suffering around me, not just within me.”

“Just the kind of girl I liked—the weirdo in the bunch.”

“Even as the words came out of my mouth, my heart was dying a million deaths.”

“Once I opened my mind to the concept of a greater power, I never struggled with it. Everywhere I went, I felt and saw the existence of a creative intelligence in this universe, of a loving power larger than myself in nature, in people, everywhere.”

“I knew there was never anyone to blame when people get into drugs. They're always responsible for their own behavior, and it's not the dealer, and it's not the friend, it's not the childhood.”

“The sad thing is, people don't want to believe that the person they're in love with is out of his mind, drinking and using, so if you give them even half an excuse, they're going to want to believe it.”

“Give her the continent and she wanted the hemisphere.”

“It takes away a lot of the thrill of killing yourself when people are looking for you and you're disappointing them, because it is a lot of fun when you're out there killing yourself.”