Quote by Brian Harmon

“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

“He was so drunk that he would have stubbornly denied that he was.”

— Filippo Bologna

“he poured himself a glass of whiskey. And another. And another. Not enough to get stinking drunk, just enough to make him overly contemplative.”

— Julia Quinn

“He lives alone, no wife or children, most of his waking hours drunk. I don’t want to end up like that.”

— Suzanne Collins

“Drunk, he was leering and silent and mostly asleep. Sober, he was a watcher, a horror of a man who missed nothing and commented…

— Donal Ryan

“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

“He believed a man should never be sober but never be drunk. And he believed in watching out for family, even if you had…

— Allan Dare Pearce

“For he was drinking too much. Not uncontrollably nor offensively, but still he seldom seemed to have a glass out of his hand.”

— Rosamunde Pilcher

“Some people drink to forget. He drank to remember more selectively.”

— Janus Lucky

“He’d never been much of a drinker. Never thought the during was much worth the after.”

— V.E. Schwab

“I have been drunk just twice in my life, and the second time was that afternoon…”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I wondered if he was drunk. That's when I tended to speak profundities to the night.”

— Mark Lawrence