The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine, forcing us to spend much of our lives, like junkies, in book shops and libraries, those literary counterparts to the opium den.
Stephanie, I'm begging you. Eat some doughnuts. I can't keep going like this." - Morelli
(n.) The state of being addicted; devotion; inclination.
We labor under the great delusion that we are in control. Silly humans.
Sometimes, I worry I'm winning.
Music gives you a certain high that any drug in the world cannot.
Every habit he's ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Given the right conditions, all his old addictions would burst into full and luxuriant bloom.
Drugs suck more than anything else I have ever liked so much.
An alcoholic is someone who can violate his standards faster than he can lower them.
She screwed me for life," he lamented to the pretty young woman he desperately wanted to love but couldn't quite fall in love with. "I've had relationships before but she was the most peculiar, infuri...
I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the
Addiction to reading... There are worse things in the world to be Addicted to. I admire your hobby choice it's mine as well.
With patience and perseverance my day will come!
The next day we were all shooting up. "Jeez. Look at the size of the cotton he just threw in the spoon." "Yea. What are you trying to prove?" They had a good laugh at my expense.
I had this great idea: I should get a job. Freelancing came with freedom, but maybe what I required was a cage.
Do we? Our problem is whatever wedges between us and God.
Well, I totally understand why people take huge drugs. Like heroin, or cocaine. I can understand why you would want to be literally out of your own head, because being in your own head is unbearable....
My nose bleeds, and every comedown feels like an overdose. I try to make peace with God each time, but he shows no interest, and it reminds me of my dad, and I get so upset that I just have to do anot...
Coming down for the thousandth time, I'm perched on the precipice of a billion broken promises. I'm speeding through the intersections of my own broken heartstrings, blowing red lights and ignoring re...
Sometimes, when I'm chain-smoking and feeling like shit (which happens more often than I'd like to admit), I let go of a lit cigarette just to see if the ember will outlast the fall.It rarely does.
A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.
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