When I drank, the part that felt dangerous and needy grew bright and strong and real. The part that coveted love kicked into gear. The yes grew louder than the no.
When you're starving or wrapped up in a cycle of binge-ing-and-purging, or sexually obsessed with (someone), it is very hard to think about anything … - Caroline Knapp
When you're starving or wrapped up in a cycle of binge-ing-and-purging, or sexually obsessed with (someone), it is very hard to think about anything …
- Caroline Knapp
All dogs can be guide dogs of a sort, leading us to places we didn't even know we needed or wanted to go. - Caroline Knapp
All dogs can be guide dogs of a sort, leading us to places we didn't even know we needed or wanted to go.
Trying to describe the process of becoming an alcoholic is like trying to describe air. It's too big and mysterious and pervasive to be defined. Alco… - Caroline Knapp
Trying to describe the process of becoming an alcoholic is like trying to describe air. It's too big and mysterious and pervasive to be defined. Alco…
Happy and alone, you say? Reclusive and merry? How oxymoronic! Pas possible! Alas, the concept is lost on so many. - Caroline Knapp
Happy and alone, you say? Reclusive and merry? How oxymoronic! Pas possible! Alas, the concept is lost on so many.
Cats are narcissistic. Their needs come before ours. They don't understand the word "No." They carry themselves with that aloof, arrogant sense of pe… - Caroline Knapp
Cats are narcissistic. Their needs come before ours. They don't understand the word "No." They carry themselves with that aloof, arrogant sense of pe…
Fall in love with a dog, and in many ways you enter a new orbit, a universe that features not just new colors but new rituals, new rules, a new way o… - Caroline Knapp
Fall in love with a dog, and in many ways you enter a new orbit, a universe that features not just new colors but new rituals, new rules, a new way o…
The real struggle is about you: you, a person who has to learn to live in the real world, to inhabit her own skin, to know her own heart, to stop wai… - Caroline Knapp
The real struggle is about you: you, a person who has to learn to live in the real world, to inhabit her own skin, to know her own heart, to stop wai…
Before you get a dog, you can't quite imagine what living with one might be like; afterward, you can't imagine living any other way. - Caroline Knapp
Before you get a dog, you can't quite imagine what living with one might be like; afterward, you can't imagine living any other way.
Consumerism thrives on emotional voids. - Caroline Knapp
Consumerism thrives on emotional voids.
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