Quote by Jack Kerouac

“I got up on my feet and went over to the bowl in the corner and threw cold water on my face. After a…

— Raymond Chandler

“I sprinted down the alley, not fast enough to avoid the cold water rolling down my back, with a childlike shriek. I caught his…

— Veronica Roth

“My mother drove me to Boston and bought me a beautiful blue dress that touched the floor, spilling out in waves; I wore the…

— Kelle Groom

“I was feeling like all that crazy sea inside me was settling into a calm. He had drawn it all out of the bottle…

— Heidi Cullinan

“It’s like that one time you woke up and tripped down a rabbit hole and a blond girl in a blue dress kept asking…

— Tahereh Mafi

“Tonight, I decided to take a stroll down to my local liquor store. Maybe I’ll find a refreshment to wash down this full moon.…

— Brandon Villasenor

“Alcohol. It can give the courage to talk dirty and the permission to go home with the bartender. It’s the alibi. The cover story.…

— Emma Chase

“How had I fetched up into this strange new life, where drunk foreigners shouted around me in the night, and all my clothes were…

— Donna Tartt

“Oh there once was a woman and she kept a shop selling trinkets to tourists not far from a dock who came to see…

— John Ashbery

“I drank for some time, three or four days. I couldn't get myself to read the want ads. The thought of sitting in front…

— Charles Bukowski

“we hit the tunnel that marks the end of the freeway and dumps out onto the Pacific Coast Highway. I cracked the window open.…

— Michael Connelly

“I remember the morning you walked back from the sea, dirty trousers rolled, your feet pale as prisoners, poems and broken shells falling through…

— Catherine Bateson