- Nic Sheff: When I discovered drugs my world went from black and white to technicolor. I can never give that up. So I tell people what they want to hear.
- David Sheff: Do you know how much I love you? If you could take all the words in the language, it still wouldn't describe how much I love you. And if you could gather all those words together, it still wouldn't describe what I feel for you. What I feel for you is everything. I love you more than everything.
- David Sheff: [Nic sees his father's work on the desk] He will sometimes send you funny emails. He prefers spaghetti over penne. Have you seen my son? Have you seen my beautiful boy? Tell him I miss him.
- [from trailer]
- David Sheff: Do you know how much I love you? I love you more than everything.
- 4 & 6-Year-Old Nic Sheff: Everything?
- David Sheff: Everything... everything...
- David Sheff: My son is out there somewhere, and I don't know what he's doing! I don't know how to help him!
- Karen Barbour: You can't!
- Nic Sheff: One day, I tried methamphetamine... Yeah. That felt good... and I thought, "This is what's been missing." I felt complete. Today's a good day. Yeah, I've been chasing that high ever since. No matter... how much meth... or whatever else I can find to shoot up into my body... I do, it's never enough. And I went to a couple of rehabs, I detoxed, they would talk about disease, sure, but... it never clicked. Until one day I woke up in a hospital and someone asked me, "What's your problem?" And I said, "I'm an alcoholic and an addict." And he said..."No, that's how you've been treating your problem."I know now I need to find a way to fill this big black hole in me. Anyway, so I'm fourteen months clean. I have a job at a rehab. It's fulfilling to help other people get sober. I have a sponsor, Spencer. He shows me how great my life can be sober. And, um, I still have family. My mom's been amazing. My dad's been amazing, too. I want them to be proud of me.
- David Sheff: I thought we were close. I thought we were closer than most fathers and sons! Why?
- Nic Sheff: I felt better than I ever had, so... I just kept on doing it.
- David Sheff: This isn't us! This is not who we are!
- David Sheff: So how you doing?
- Nic Sheff: I'm doing great, you know, just, um... um... just doing what needs to be done, and...
- David Sheff: What does that mean?
- Nic Sheff: I'm sorry, Dad, um...
- David Sheff: Why don't we just have lunch and talk? We can do that, right? Please. You think that you have this under control.
- Nic Sheff: I understand why I do things. It doesn't make me any different. I'm attracted to craziness, and you're just embarrassed 'cause I was like... you know, I was like this amazing thing, like your special creation or something, and you don't like who I am now!
- David Sheff: Yeah? Who are you, Nic?
- Nic Sheff: This is me, Dad! Here, this is who I am!
- David Sheff: This is not you! This is not you, Nic!
- Nic Sheff: What are you doing, huh? You always gotta be controlling everything all the time!
- David Sheff: Let me book you a room at a hotel for a couple nights.
- Nic Sheff: No, Dad. No, Dad, I want it to go like this.
- [at a meeting for relatives of addicts]
- Rose: I... I had a rough week. Some of you know, some of you don't: I, um... I lost my Frances this week. She died of an overdose on Sunday. So... I guess I'm in mourning. But I - I - I realized something else: I've actually been in mourning for years. 'Cause even when she was alive, she... she wasn't there. When you mourn the living, that's a hard way to live. And so, in... in a way, it, it's... it's better, I guess. She was a dear, dear young woman. I always felt... I needed to... to stay strong, that there'd be some future event, and I'd... I'd need all my strength for it. But there are no events after this one. I hope she's not in pain now. Bye, Frances.
- David Sheff: There are moments that I look at him, this kid that I raised, who I thought I knew inside and out, and I wonder who he is. He's been doing all sorts of drugs, but he's addicted to crystal meth, which seems, uh, to be the worst of all of them. And I guess I'm here because I just want to know all that I can about all of it. Know your enemies, right? So, my two big questions are, what is it doing to him, and what can I do to help him?
- David Sheff: Jasper's savings disappeared.
- Nic Sheff: Yeah? That's weird.
- David Sheff: Did you take his eight dollars?
- Nic Sheff: What?
- David Sheff: You heard me.
- Nic Sheff: Why would I?
- David Sheff: It disappeared, and somebody has to have done it.
- Nic Sheff: Right, so it's me. This is fucking ridiculous.
- David Sheff: Are you using again?
- David Sheff: Are you high right now?
- Nic Sheff: What the f...? No. Fuck you.
- David Sheff: *Fuck you*? Don't talk to me that way. Are you high right now?
- Nic Sheff: No.
- David Sheff: You're not using right now? Are you using?
- Nic Sheff: No, Dad, I'm not fucking high right now!
- David Sheff: Okay.