“When I commend her on avoiding the standardized addiction-and-recovery story arc, she shrugs off the compliment. ‘That’s what everyone says, but I’d so much rather have that story arc.”— Emily Gould, Cat Marnell, nymag.comTagged: Addiction, rehab, Before and after
“I have everything now, except hair. And a man.”— Cat Marnell, nymag.comTagged: Addiction, beauty, rehab
“While working on her book, Marnell had stuck to a regimen: waking up at a normalish hour, Barry’s Bootcamp, prepackaged cut veggies and half-sandwiches from Starbucks and 7/11, Adderall just to focus and not to get high, a few drinks with friends, and maybe a little coke, ‘but not, like, lines of it…”— Emily Gould, nymag.comTagged: Addiction, Writing, How to be a writer
“Rehab is basically a memoir-writing workshop.”— Cat Marnell, nymag.comTagged: rehab, Addiction, Quote of the Moment, Writing