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Deborah Hardin
When Hari began researching Chasing the Scream, one of his close relatives was addicted to drugs. This was one of his primary motivations for writing the book. By the time Hari finished his research, this relative had managed to quit using drugs and find a job working at a phone help line for fellow drug addicts.
Hari’s Relative Quotes in Chasing the Scream
The Chasing the Scream quotes below are all either spoken by Hari’s Relative or refer to Hari’s Relative . 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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I didn’t threaten to sever the connection: I promised to deepen it.
As I write this, he is passed out on my spare bed. […] I looked him just now, lying there, his face pallid again, and as I stroked his hair, I think I understood something for the first time. The opposite of addiction isn’t sobriety. It’s connection. It’s all I can offer. It’s all that will help him in the end. If you are alone, you cannot escape addiction. If you are loved, you have a chance. For a hundred years we have been singing war songs about addicts. All along, we should have been singing love songs to them.
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Hari’s Relative Quotes in Chasing the Scream
The Chasing the Scream quotes below are all either spoken by Hari’s Relative or refer to Hari’s Relative . 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:
).
Conclusion
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I didn’t threaten to sever the connection: I promised to deepen it.
As I write this, he is passed out on my spare bed. […] I looked him just now, lying there, his face pallid again, and as I stroked his hair, I think I understood something for the first time. The opposite of addiction isn’t sobriety. It’s connection. It’s all I can offer. It’s all that will help him in the end. If you are alone, you cannot escape addiction. If you are loved, you have a chance. For a hundred years we have been singing war songs about addicts. All along, we should have been singing love songs to them.
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