Quote by James Baldwin

“A few drinks and the world was hers— she wore her whiskey like a loaded gun.”

— Atticus Poetry

“Opening her handbag, she took out a small bottle of perfume and touched the stopper behind her ears. Its cool, glassy edge felt like…

— Eileen Chang

“All her life she would associate liquor with her childhood. When she was alone and did not wish to be, a drink would reassure…

— Pamela Moore

“She's incredibly intelligent, very book smart, but give her a drink and she becomes the hot mess express, selling tickets for everyone to see.”

— Meghan Quinn

“Once upon a time there was a little girl, and she told a lie to her friend’s brother so that her friend’s brother drove…

— Holly Black

“He stood and slipped into his jeans, leaving the waist unsnapped as he made his way to the plane in that loose, lanky stride…

— R.C. Ryan

“It was Miss Murdstone who was arrived, and a gloomy-looking lady she was...She brought with her, two uncompromising hard black boxes, with her initials…

— Charles Dickens

“One day, an unusually exciting event interrupted the rhythm of our regular middle-class teenage lives. A Russian woman, the mother of a girl in…

— Inna Swinton

“She was a very small girl with a face as lovely and fresh as her son’s face—a very small girl. Most of the time…

— John Steinbeck

“The Destiny Of A Drunkard Is In The Bottle .”

— peter irabor

“The lady in the liquor store sold me a fifth of whiskey and the landlord’s name without taking her eyes off the book she…

— Andrew Cotto

“She saw the normative life of the planet, business people crossing streets beneath glass towers, the life of sitting on buses that take you…

— Don DeLillo