Koren Zailckas Quotes

Taste of metal on my tongue. Poison the color of envy- I'm delirious, you're delicious, I'm deluded and delusional. I'm lost without you. I need you.

I feel like a drunken man who doesn't have a drink.

I can't go long without you either, Eva. You're an addiction...my obsession.

when you want something so desperately, you shake with the need for it. you tell yourself that you don't need more than one sip, because it's just the taste you crave, and once it's on your tongue you will be able to make it last alifetime. you dream of it at night. you see a thousand mile-high obstacles between where you stand and what you want, and you convince yourself you have the power to hurdle them. you tell yourself this even when, leaping the first block, you wind up bruised and bloodied and flattened.

To a drinker the sensation is real and pure and akin to something spiritual: you seek; in the bottle, you find.

Desire grows by what it feeds on.

Love is desire sustained by unfulfilment.

I was carrying a beautiful alcoholic conflagration around with me. The thing fed on its own heat and flamed the fiercer. There was no time, in all my waking time, that I didn't want a drink. I began to anticipate the completion of my daily thousand words by taking a drink when only five hundred words were written. It was not long until I prefaced the beginning of the thousand words with a drink.

I Cannot Exist Without You. I Am Forgetful Of Everything But Seeing You Again.

I'm like a junky without an addiction.

I’m addicted to your allure and I’m fiending for a cure.

I've got the hungries for your love and I'm waiting in your welfare line.

But what if your obsession has nothing to do with drugs or thrills or money? What if what you want most in the world is to recapture the way life was a week, a month, a year ago-and you are willing to do whatever it takes?

I'm still missing that little something.

I don't wanna need you because I can't have you.

Meanwhile I'll probably see him again. That's how sick I am.

My mate Karl once told me he’d been looking after this five-year-old boy who – not knowing enough to have an ironic inflection to his words – said, ‘I want something.’ He didn’t know what it was. Not ‘I want sweets’, or ‘a can of Coke’, or ‘to watch the Tweenies’, or whatever it is they’re into now (I like Bagpuss), but ‘I want something.’ All of us, I think, have that feeling. And what heroin does when you first start taking it is tell you what that something is.

Addiction - When you can give up something any time, as long as it's next Tuesday.

Longing, it may be, is the gift no other gift supplies.

I can't sleep, I can't eat, I can't do anything but think about him. At night I dream of him, all day I wait to see him, and when I do see him my heart turns over and I think I will faint with desire.

She would buy magic every day of the week. Love me, that face said. I'm so lonely, so desperate. I'll give you whatever you want.

I don't have a drinking problem 'Cept when I can't get a drink.

When someone covets something they desire and lust over it.Usually it's something they can't have. You've always had that problem.

Soon you start craving that intense attention with the hungry obsession of any junkie. When the drug is withheld you probably turn sick, crazy and depleted not to mention resentful of the dealer who encourage this addiction in the first place but who now refuses to pony up the good stuff anymore despite that you know that he has it hidden somewhere God dammit because you know that he used to give it to you for free.

He was my drug, and I had no desire to kick the habit.