“Maybe all that wine is an Instagram filter for our own lives, so we don’t see how sallow and cracked they’ve become.”— Kristi Coulter, vox.com
“So today is National Beer Day. Don't celebrate so heartily that it becomes National No Sex Day.”— Dr. Ruth Westheimer, twitter.com
“They don’t call alcohol liquid courage for nothing. Drunk texts and calls mean that you are on his mind always but that he only has the confidence to text or call when intoxicated. Drunk contact is good because it allows him an out in the morning if you decline his advances. He can claim that it was…”— Christy Rasmussen, herinterest.com
“I don’t need to talk about how I need a drink, I need a reason not to drink.”— Poussey Washington, newrepublic.com
“You say you’re dating him, but you never really go out on dates together or do other things that couples usually do. He always just wants to ‘hang out’ with you when alcohol is involved, like at a party or a bar. In fact, that’s the only time he shows up for dates. If you call him to do anything els…”— Deepika Singhania, newlovetimes.com
“Today at work I asked a writers assistant for 3 Advil and some water, and immediately Matt Warburton chimed in asking for 3 Cialis and whiskey.”— Mindy Kaling, twitter.com
“Maybe women are so busy faking it — to be more like a man at work, more like a porn star in bed, more like 30 at 50 — that we don’t trust our natural responses anymore. Maybe all that wine is an Instagram filter for our own lives, so we don’t see how sallow and cracked they’ve become.”— Kristi Coulter, qz.com
“I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.”— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com
“If you just want to hook up when you’re drunk, and he wants the same, then more power to you both. However, if you have real feelings for this person, and he only wants you around when you’re drunk and naked, this is a huge deal breaker.”— Geena Goozdich, elitedaily.com
“Not taking a drink was easy. Just a matter of muscle movement, the simple refusal to put alcohol to my lips. The impossible part was everything else. How could I talk to people? Who would I be? What would intimacy look like, if it weren’t coaxed out by the glug-glug of a bottle of wine or a pint of…”— Sarah Hepola, amazon.com
“We all want to believe that our pain is singular - that no on else has felt this way - but our pain is ordinary, which is both a blessing and a curse. It means we're not unique. But it also means we're not alone.”— Sarah Hepola, amazon.com
“When you're using drugs, you're driven by this mystical black energy, a force inside you that just won't quit. And the weaker you get, the more you feed into that energy, and the more it fucks with you. When your spirit becomes dark and your lifestyle becomes dark, your existence is susceptible to i…”— Anthony Kiedis, amazon.com
“I chose to share both the good and the bad parts of my story, and of my imagination, so that it might help even one person realize that there is hope. You are not alone. And it does get better. I promise you it’s worth it.”— Kimberly Nalen, amazon.com
“At the bottom of every person's dependency, there is always pain, Discovering the pain and healing it is an essential step in ending dependency.”— Chris Prentiss, amazon.com
“You are not an alcoholic or an addict. You are not incurably diseased. You have merely become dependent on substances or addictive behavior to cope with underlying conditions that you are now going to heal, at which time your dependency will cease completely and forever.”— Chris Prentiss, amazon.com
“If you regard alcoholics and drug addicts not as bad people but as sick people then we can help them to get better.”— Russell Brand, theguardian.com
“It is difficult to feel sympathy for these people. It is difficult to regard some bawdy drunk and see them as sick and powerless. It is difficult to suffer the selfishness of a drug addict who will lie to you and steal from you and forgive them and offer them help. Can there be any other disease tha…”— Russell Brand, theguardian.com
“Drugs and alcohol are not my problem, reality is my problem, drugs and alcohol are my solution.”— Russell Brand, theguardian.com