“Of course, victims have rights and the perpetrators need punishment, but they also need to get well. If you can address the underlying addiction, you can prevent them from committing another crime. The options that you have as a prosecutor were somewhat limited and we had to do more work upstream in…”— Joe Kennedy III, thepolitic.org
“While we were playing on our phones and apps, our democratic institutions seem to have been upended by frat-boy billionaires from California.”— Canadian Member of Parliament, Noam Cohen, wired.com
“Who do religions fear the most? You're going to say to me: Satan, the devil. It's actually women.”— Patrick Wanis, vice.com
“It is safe to say that Miller did not die of a broken heart, mainly because, well, no one ever does.”— Madeleine Davies, cosmopolitan.com
“It’s gross, and it shows how unwilling we are to understand substance abuse — or kill the stigma around it.”— Miles Klee, melmagazine.com
“Lyn: I swear I have, like, noodles for arms. And now everyone knows about my super serious t-shirt addiction. Fedora: iPhone cases. Lyn: Sorry? Fedora: I'm a pretty serious iPhone case addict.”— Nancy C. Mejia, Chelsey Lora, Lyn, Melissa Barrera, imdb.com
“Marnie: Since when is Jessa even a drug addict? Hannah: She’s really just a life addict.”— Hannah Horvath, Lena Dunham, imdb.com
“Women are playing mobile games more than men, with 43 percent of female mobile gamers playing more than five days a week. Why is that? How much are they spending? How long are they playing? What are they blowing off? What excuses did they make, this time? How are they doing — has anyone asked?”— Stephanie Georgopulos, medium.com
“What are we we do, man? I don't want to get thrown out of the hotel. I love the hotel. I wanna marry the hotel and have little gambling-addicted alcoholic kids with it.”— Allan Heinberg, Seth Cohen, Adam Brody, imdb.com
“You don't have the luxury of a couple of beers every now and then... because if you're anything like me, pretty quickly that couple of beers can become a six-pack, and then that six-pack is all you think about. It happened to my dad, it happened to me, and I'm going to do everything in my power to m…”— Lizzy Weiss, Regina Vasquez, Constance Marie, imdb.com
“I'm not using drugs to get high like many people think. I know I made a big mistake when I started using this shit. It's a very difficult thing to explain. My liver is not functioning and I'm throwing up all the time and shitting my pants. The pain is more than you can handle. It's the worst pain in…”— Layne Staley, blabbermouth.net
“I fell into depression, addiction, violence, promiscuous sex, and I even attempted suicide actually ...I've never shared that until now. I wanted to end the daily pain and end the hurt and the loss, but somehow I held on and now that I've fallen back to him and living IN love, and showing OTHERS LOV…”— Austin Carlile, loudwire.com
“If I can kick drugs, I can deliver a baby.”— Lynne E. Litt, Charlie Pace, Dominic Monaghan, imdb.com
“Sometimes I just wanna cave and I don't wanna fight I try and I try and I try and I try and I try.”— Demi Lovato, open.spotify.com
“The nitty-gritty, morally bankrupt, back-alley-brawling rest of the game... that's me. It's filthy and thankless, and it's my hallelujah, heroin, and reason to breathe.”— Jenna Bans, Cyrus Beene, Jeff Perry, imdb.com
“It’s tantalizing and tragic to think of all the things Houston wanted to say in the course of her pathbreaking career, and didn’t.”— Michael Schulman, newyorker.com
“At some point, this creator of music struggled with his own connection and his own relationship with Life. At some point, maybe you have too.”— Ivy Kwong, medium.com
“Power is a pricy doll. You get a taste for it, you keep coming back for more.”— Michael Taylor, Waldo, Stephen Lang, imdb.com
“Every day, we check our phones an average of 47 times–every 19 minutes of our waking lives–and spend roughly five hours total peering at their silvery glow. There’s no good consensus about what all this screen time means for children’s brains, adolescents’ moods or the future of our democratic insti…”— Haley Sweetland Edwards, time.com