" One of the students raised his had and said, matter-of-factly, "I'm afraid I can't stop drinking."

The room went silent. All eyes went to our teacher, David.

Without missing a beat, he smiled, looked at him, and said, "Of course you can. Are you drinking now?"

"No."

"And now?"

He smiled, and said softly, "No."

"...and how about right now?"

We all smiled this time.

"No."

This is how it is done - how anything is done. One moment, then the next, then the next. This is how this book is being written: I type this word, then this one, then this one. The words build sentences. The sentences build a paragraph. A book is impossible, but a word and then another word is not. A lifetime of sobriety was impossible, but a moment of sobriety was not. I was doing it, and I was doing it, and I was doing it again. "

― Laura McKowen , We Are the Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life