Naturally, I didn’t believe them. All I wanted to do was take drugs.
“Course you do.”
“You’ve never done anything upsetting without getting wrecked.” “It’s dead easy,” Nola said. “All you have to do is learn new responses to everything.”
“But it’s so hard,” I said.
“’Tisn’t,” Nola sang. “It’s only new. Practice.”

“That makes sense. You’ve stopped putting a powerful depressant chemical into your body, no wonder you feel better.”