“During my white-knuckle phase of
“I will not drink,” I would become so awfully uncomfortable that I became willing to not worry about what I would feel like the next day in order to feel better in that moment.” But pain’s like water. It finds a way to push through any seal. There’s no way to stop it. Sometimes you have to let yourself sink inside of it before you can learn how to swim to the surface.
— Katie Kacvinsky
They are restless, irritable and discontented, unless they can again experience the sense of ease and comfort which comes at once by taking a few drinks—drinks which they see others taking with impunity.
— Page xxvii Alcoholics Anonymous
