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Dr. Edythe London
Z. is one of Nic’s girlfriends whom he dates after dropping out of Hampshire College. Nic and Z. have a sporadic relationship, breaking up and getting back together again several times. Z. is also a drug addict, and she often she enables Nic’s bad decisions, causing him to relapse on several occasions.
Z. Quotes in Beautiful Boy
The Beautiful Boy quotes below are all either spoken by Z. or refer to Z.. 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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Z. Quotes in Beautiful Boy
The Beautiful Boy quotes below are all either spoken by Z. or refer to Z.. 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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