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The Sober Diaries: How one woman stopped drinking and started living QUOTES

1 " Anxiety is a sign that you’re pushing boundaries, moving forward, grabbing the bull by the horns. IT IS GOOD. "

― Clare Pooley , The Sober Diaries: How one woman stopped drinking and started living

2 " That’s the thing about the wine witch. She cuts brilliant lives short, and ensures that others are only half lived. She makes children grow up thinking it is normal for adults to drink all evening, every evening. She fixes it so mothers are woken up in the middle of the night by a stranger telling them their only child was found dead in a ditch, next to someone she barely knew. "

― Clare Pooley , The Sober Diaries: How one woman stopped drinking and started living

3 " Only a really great friend realises that there are few situations that can’t be improved by great stationery. "

― Clare Pooley , The Sober Diaries: How one woman stopped drinking and started living

4 " life, is accompanied by that feeling. If you’re avoiding anxiety you’re not properly living, I remind myself. I felt the same before every job interview, every first date, before getting married, before giving birth, before going off backpacking. Where would I be now if I’d avoided doing all those things (or got totally drunk beforehand)? Anxiety is a sign that you’re pushing boundaries, moving forward, grabbing the bull by the horns. IT IS GOOD. "

― Clare Pooley , The Sober Diaries: How one woman stopped drinking and started living

5 " But today I’m having to live with the restless serpents. I remind myself that absolutely everything that is worth doing, everything that is game-changing in life, is accompanied by that feeling. If you’re avoiding anxiety you’re not properly living, I remind myself. I felt the same before every job interview, every first date, before getting married, before giving birth, before going off backpacking. Where would I be now if I’d avoided doing all those things (or got totally drunk beforehand)? "

― Clare Pooley , The Sober Diaries: How one woman stopped drinking and started living