Gwen Cummings: Don't be someone else's slogan because you are poetry.
Gwen Cummings: Is that available stitched on a pillow somewhere?
Betty: Tonight's lecture: "What's wrong with celebrating sobriety by getting drunk?"
Cornell: This isn't a way to live. This is a way to die.
Oliver: I'm thinkin' booze.
Gerhardt: Cocaine.
Roshanda: Pain killers.
Bobbie Jean: This is not a nice game.
Cornell: Yeah, you're an individual. The only person in the world who uses drugs and alcohol.
Cornell: You know, if your counselor catches you using you could get in big trouble.
Gwen Cummings: I don't plan on discussing it with him.
Cornell: Too late.
Gwen Cummings: Yeah, I know I drink a lot, I know I do because I'm a writer and that's what I do, I drink. I'm not like those people out there, I can control myself! I can, if - that - if I wanted to, I could, if I wanted. I can! I can.
Betty: Tonight's lecture: How many brain cells did I kill last night?
Roshanda: I don't think you have niceness, you see, I don't feel niceness coming from you.
Gwen Cummings: I am having a bad day! The worst damn day of my whole damn life! If it is not too much to ask will you all just back the fuck off.
Jasper: No one adult human being is happy! People are born, they have a limited amount of time going around thinking life is dandy but then, inevitably, tragedy strikes and they realise life equals loss! The whole point of the game is to minimise the pain caused by that equation! Now some people do it by having kids, or making money, or taking up coin collecting, and others do it by getting wasted.
Gwen Cummings: I'm not a lesbian.
Equine Therapist: Folks, the definition of insanity is repeating the same behaviour over and over again, expecting different results.
Answer: He was a hard drinker who did not take her sobriety seriously, and she realised he was not good for her.
Brian Katcher