Alcoholics Quote by Elif Batuman

Delia picked at the raw sores of her conscience...Drunk or sober, Delia lived in the small town in her heart, ignoring the world in…

— Dorothy Allison

“The avarice, the hunger for materialistic possessions and the dependency upon alcohol had gradually become stronger and stronger. And now, it was the sum…

— Sue Fortin

“At the beginning, there had been talk of using some of her money to start a home for alcoholics. In a sense they had…

— Edward St. Aubyn

“Dessah’s mind kept taking her to places she didn’t want to go. Hearing about her aunt’s heart attack, all of a sudden, her body…

— Holliday Vann

“How desperate she had been for a storybook ending, and a life to which Gaia would always want to return; because her daughter's departure…

— J.K. Rowling

“The girls noticed that Volodia, who was generally so talkative and gay, seldom spoke now and never smiled and on the whole did not…

— Leo Tolstoy

“It seemed to her many years since he had begun to prepare her mind for "the place," as she always called it. Her mother…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“She trusted her instincts; she trusted those dear to her; she trusted her emotions and her passions. She drank deep, you could see that;…

— Joanna Trollope

“Talia’s friends invalidated what was real about Talia by assuming that searching was better than finding, friends were better than family, and adventure was…

— Meg Jay

She thought of how precious it was to be able to know another person over many years. There was incomparable richness in it.

— Alice Walker

“I had drunk much wine and afterward coffee and Strega and I explained, winefully, how we did not do the things we wanted to…

— Ernest Hemingway

“There are two types of drinkers: those who drink to enhance their personalities, and those who sought to take something away.”

— Haruki Murakami