“We are all of us like that boy sometimes. I mean we all carry something inside us that can be rejected; that can look silver in the light. You can deny it, or try and throw it in the garbage by all means. You can despise it so much you drink yourself halfway to death. At the end of the day, though,…”— Olivia Laing, amazon.com
“It had struck me a long time back that the dream of letting go into water is prevalent in the work of alcoholic writers. I'd been collecting them up, these little fantasies of cleanliness, purification, dissolution and death. Some were healthful: antidotes to a kind of felt dirtiness gathering elsew…”— Olivia Laing, amazon.com
“I sense in some small part of myself how pleasurable it might be to let alcohol unhinge you, to take you down into an unreachable, sunken place, where sounds are very muted.”— Olivia Laing, amazon.com
“I drank in high school, but I didn’t swear until I got to college.”— Katie Mather, thoughtcatalog.com
“Alcohol can certainly lower one’s sexual inhibitions, but it can also make it harder to achieve orgasm at all, and can decrease orgasm intensity when you do have one. If you’re trying to maximize your orgasm, stick to only a drink or two. Or better yet, have sex before you go out!”— Lara Rutherford-Morrison, bustle.com
“I take so little interest in my daily life, that I hardly remember to eat and drink.”— Emily Brontë, amazon.com
“That's what was wrong with drinking too much. You became immune to drunken delights. There was no solace in liquor. Before you got happy, you collapsed.”— Richard Matheson, amazon.com
“I felt empty and sad for years, and for a long, long time, alcohol worked. I’d drink, and all the sadness would go away. Not only did the sadness go away, but I was fantastic. I was beautiful, funny, I had a great figure, and I could do math. But at some point, the booze stopped working. That’s when…”— Dina Kucera, amazon.com
“The person that you love is dead, I flooded him out with the Jack and Jameson.”— Senses Fail, open.spotify.com
“Drink water, drink water, drink water! Two quarts of noncarbonated water a day works minor miracles.”— Laure Redmond, oprah.com
“You can’t drink him away. It won’t work.”— Sheila Callaghan, Debbie Gallagher, Emma Kenney, imdb.com
“That bottle of wine that you have in case of a 'special occasion' and how 7pm starts to feel real 'special' when you got no other booze”— Anna Kendrick, twitter.com