Nic Sheff Quotes

• It was like being in a car with the gas pedal slammed down to the floor and nothing to do but hold on and pretend to have some semblance of control. But control was something I'd lost a long time ago.

  Nic Sheff

  Long, Car, Lost

  Nic Sheff (2012). “Tweak: Growing up on Crystal Meth”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• It's not that I don't appreciate my life sober, but it's like there are two different people battling inside of me. I want to be good, do good, be a worker among workers, a friend among friends. But there's also this part of me that is so dissatisfied with everything, If I'm not living on the verge of death, I feel like I'm not really living.

  Nic Sheff

  Two, Appreciate, People

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• I always get so overwhelmed trying to do everything perfectly. I can't do a job and not put everything I have into it. I need to be the best employee, the best co-worker, the best whatever. I need everyone to like me and I just burn out bending over backward to make that happen. Having people be mad at me is my worst fear. I can't stand it. There is this crazy fear I have of being rejected by anyone - even people I don't really care about. It's always better to leave them first, cut all ties, and disappear. They can't hurt me that way - no one can.

  Nic Sheff

  Hurt, Jobs, Crazy

  Nic Sheff (2012). “Tweak: Growing up on Crystal Meth”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• And though I have done many shameful things, I am not ashamed of who I am. I am not ashamed of who I am because I know who I am. I have tried to rip myself open and expose everything inside - accepting my weaknesses and strengths - not trying to be anyone else. 'Cause that never works, does it?So my challenge is to be authentic. An I believe I am today. I believe I am.

  Nic Sheff

  Rip, Believe, Who I Am

  Nic Sheff (2012). “Tweak: Growing up on Crystal Meth”, p.250, Simon and Schuster

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• The dark is settling in. The sky glows yellow- pale- anemic from the city lights. The Tenderloin at night is a real horror show. Every 3 feet someone is accosting you with a plea for a handout or the offer of drug or sex. The men and women wander the streets and alleys with a threatening, violont want. Takers looking to take, hustlers looking to hustle, all trying to satisfy a craving that is parpatually unsatisfiable. And tonight I'm one of them.

  Nic Sheff

  Sex, Real, Dark

  Nic Sheff (2012). “Tweak: Growing up on Crystal Meth”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• Isn't that the greatest gift in the world-just not to care?

  Nic Sheff

  World, Care, Tweak

  Nic Sheff (2012). “Tweak: Growing up on Crystal Meth”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• We only have this one moment: NOW.

  Nic Sheff

  Moments

  Nic Sheff (2012). “Tweak: Growing up on Crystal Meth”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

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• It's like if the music is loud enough I won't be able to listen to my own thoughts.

  Nic Sheff

  Able, Enough, Loud

  Nic Sheff (2009). “Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

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