How can both Nics, the loving and considerate and generous one, and the self-obsessed and self-destructive one, be the same person?

A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white.

How innocent we are of our mistakes and how we responsible we are for them.

An alcoholic will steal your wallet and lie to you. A drug addict will steal your wallet and then help you look for it.

Openness is the first step toward recovery... addiction remains a secret because of the overwhelming shame associated with it.

We deny the severity of our loved one's problem not because we are naive, but because we can't know.

When I transformed my random and raw words into sentences, sentences into paragraphs, and paragraphs into chapters, a semblance of order and sanity appeared where there had been only chaos and insanity.