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Randy is Nic’s AA sponsor when he moves to LA. Randy is 15 years sober and helps Nic stay sober and clean as well. The two of them often go on long bike rides together as a healthy coping mechanism for Nic. Randy serves as a support system, particularly when Nic is feeling depressed or when he relapses.
Randy Quotes in Beautiful Boy
The Beautiful Boy quotes below are all either spoken by Randy or refer to Randy. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 22
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In recovery working with Randy, Nic was the one who explained the insidiousness to me: “A using addict cannot trust his own brain—it lies, says, ‘You can have one drink, a joint, a single line, just one.’” It tells him, “I have moved beyond my sponsor.” It says, “I don’t require the obsessive and vigilant recovery program I needed when I was emerging from the relapse.” […] And so Nic said he couldn’t trust his own brain and needed to rely on Randy, meetings, the program, and prayer—yes, prayer—to go forward.
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Randy Quotes in Beautiful Boy
The Beautiful Boy quotes below are all either spoken by Randy or refer to Randy. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 22
Quotes
In recovery working with Randy, Nic was the one who explained the insidiousness to me: “A using addict cannot trust his own brain—it lies, says, ‘You can have one drink, a joint, a single line, just one.’” It tells him, “I have moved beyond my sponsor.” It says, “I don’t require the obsessive and vigilant recovery program I needed when I was emerging from the relapse.” […] And so Nic said he couldn’t trust his own brain and needed to rely on Randy, meetings, the program, and prayer—yes, prayer—to go forward.
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Related Themes:
Page Number and Citation:
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