Talk:Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction

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There were good times and bad times, but in the beginning there were more good times.

there is only heroin, there is only Candy, the three of us adrift on the endless sea of love. We carry the ocean within us and with us wherever we go.

I can no longer cry. I groan a few times. Through the slits that are my eyes, I stare at my shoes, at the gray swirls of the concrete floor, at the bright orange lid of my syringe. And I realize-it’s all kind of a horror-that this is my life. And I can’t stop. I just can’t stop. I can’t stop anymore.

Candy was still just getting into smack and it was the gravy train, lots of hitting up-I used to do it for her, slipping the steel into those marble-white arms-

AIDS was everywhere; I wanted it no more than the next person. Occasionally, however, fate dictated that you had to take a chance. As a junkie you had to spend a lot of time crossing your fingers and hoping for the best.

I went to the bedroom and Candy already had a belt tied around her arm. There were times when I loved her enthusiasm.

He was that rare breed, a casual user. They belong in nature documentaries.

Detoxing is more unpleasant than almost anything, and anyway, detoxing doesn’t work. You always use in the end.

I was jealous of the way animals led their lives and didn’t have drug problems.

The luxurious privacy of hitting up in the disabled’s toilet, where you had your own basin and the door reached fully to the ground.

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