History Quote by Alan Hollinghurst

“When a man gets drunk he gets sentimental. That's what I wanted to avoid.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“a drunk did not expect the bottle to love him back,and she only wished to drink him in whenever she could.”

— Sherry Thomas

“He was drunk, but this was something he’d thought about for a long time and needed no sobriety to express—just a listener.”

— Olen Steinhauer

“She was certainly rather drunk. Her eyes were fixed as if upon some far-off point. She seemed to be contemplating a future at once…

— Jean Rhys

“This was an unfortunate misstep, and one that could have been avoided if only she had remembered never to take to heart the words…

— Cristina Alger

“I appreciated her bluntness. Maybe it came with her sudden sobriety. Here she was back in the brightly lit world she had been avoiding…

— Robert Charles Wilson

“and there would be more drunkenness than wine in the softness of her eyes on his.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“She tasted like strawberries and wine. So, so sweet and harmfully intoxicating. I was fully drunk on her. Head foggy by her lips, body…

— Sarah A. Bailey

“And she had been in love enough times to rule out the possibility that this was merely some feat of nostalgia.”

— Galt Niederhoffer

“Being drunk really brought out her inner vicious bitch.”

— Sarra Manning

“I was drunk but not drunk enough to say what I wanted, that we don't live our lives so much as come to them,…

— Michael Byer

“It was because she was drinking a lot, choosing to do these things to be happy but never seeming all that happy the next…

— Katie Heaney