Drug Addict Quotes

“A broom that was almost never used was leaned up against the wall. He took it and started to sweep. Dust flew up his nose. When he had been sweeping for a while he realised he had no dustpan. He swept the pile of dust under the couch. Better to have a little shit in the corners than a clean hell. He flipped through the pages of a porno, put it back. Wound his scarf around his neck until his head felt like it was about to explode, released it. Got up and took a few steps on the rug. Sank to his knees, prayed to god.”
― John Ajvide Lindqvist, Let the Right One In

“Instead of a criminal or a drug addict, I was looking at a boy—just a boy.”
― Shannon A. Thompson, Take Me Tomorrow

“The only way to truly help most drug addicts and most alcoholics is to—instead of them—change reality.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I spent so much time at “rock bottom” that I was charged rent for staying there.”
― D.C. Hyden, The Sober Addict

“Ironically, the effects of addiction are worse in cases where the addict seldom affords the addiction.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“It wasn’t the first time Alabama had overdosed, but it had been the scariest. Though she would never tell Richie this, there had been a moment during the experience—impossible to say for how long; could have been a minute, could have been an hour—when she had died. At least, that’s how it had felt after she had clawed her way back from it. Death didn’t scare Alabama; in fact, sometimes, part of her yearned for it. What terrified her was how lonely she had felt, lost in oblivion. No one had greeted her at the borders of another realm, because that other realm was just another lie in a world full of them. Instead, there had been nothing at all in every direction, forever. Perfect darkness. The absence of everything.”
― Philip Elliott, Porno Valley

“The needle plunged into Richie’s skin like a lover.

“I’ll be right behind you,” he heard Alabama say, but his blood was cold now and his eyes were open but unseeing and a warmth was spreading up his bones from his toes as all tension in his body melted and seeped out his pores, all worries and fears and failures, and he knew that everything would be fine, perfectly, wonderfully fine, and that it had been silly to have ever worried at all.

I’ll be right behind you. The words repeating in his mind like an echo as he zoomed far away from this dirty motel room, from this dirty life.

See you soon.”
― Philip Elliott, Porno Valley

“A group of Christian Bale doppelgängers, The Machinist Bales, not the Batman Bales, lounge on the corner of the street. Drug addicts. Drug fiends sit with noon and needles. The noon, the “bread” is naked, there in the middle for mere show.”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Tajrish

“You do not want to be taking doctors prescription drugs. They will turn you into a drug addict! Many of their drugs damage the body, it says so in the known drug side effects!”
― Steven Magee