Alcoholism Quote by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

“I’ll never forget that Depression Easter Sunday. Our son was four years old. I bought ten or fifteen cents’ worth of eggs. You didn’t…

— Studs Terkel

“My mother was in the bathtub crying and I was standing outside the door waiting, just in case she decided to slip her head…

— Eula Biss

“On my first evening in the back country, I skipped down the porch steps of the farmhouse-leaving my father inside and the radio playing…

— Mitch Cullin

“Anyway, I went home and searched all of my father’s pockets and drawers until I found some weed. The revelation that my dad was…

— Amy Poehler

“So I'd grown up eating my words, and it wasn't until later that that I realized how many had gotten backed up inside me.…

— Lisa Ko

“So I left my wonderfully intelligent family and soaked myself in the bath and considered drowning myself. Then I remembered I still had chocolate…

— Cecelia Ahern

“Sometimes I’d take off my earmuffs and memory goggles and turn around to discover that my father had been standing in the doorway, just…

— Joshua Foer

“And for the last ten or so years of my life, whenever my father was in the house, I've learned how to make myself…

— Jessica Brody

“I saw an infinity of such dreary evenings stretching out ahead of me. Trapped in a dirty old house with a grieving old woman…

— Charles Palliser

“I'd love to know how Dad saw me when I was 6. I'd love to know a hundred things. When a parent dies, a…

— David Mitchell

“When I took these things from the house: some tapes, some books, my winter clothes, I did not know that these would become the…

— Jacqueline Woodson

“I was fascinated by strangers, wanted to know what food they ate and what dishes they ate it from, what movies they watched and…

— Donna Tartt