Quote by Jane Austen

“Elinor looked at him with greater astonishment than ever. She began to think that he must be in liquor...”

— Jane Austen

“If Eli really was a hero, and Victor meant to stop him, did that make him a villain? He took a long sip of…

— Victoria Schwab

“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

“The paper called Eli a hero. The word made Victor laugh. Not just because it was absurd, but because it posed a question. If…

— Victoria Schwab

“Insofar as story is concerned, and pleasure is concerned, there are not enough Stephen Kings to go around.”

— Stephen King

“The fact that he might have other things to do with his time than spend it shepherding his master's head-strong, thousand-ducat-a-night anguisette through one…

— Jacqueline Carey

“The city had seemed grand to him once ... it had once had a certain clarity. When you're young you think it's the clarity…

— Jennifer duBois

“But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“He wasn't a happy drunk and when he'd had too much, his frustration spilled out of him in an angry torrent of false bravado.…

— Ed Duncan

“There were some people you had to stay away from, people who poisoned everything in reach. Then there were people you wanted to stick…

— Victoria Schwab

“Apparently, nothing focuses a drunk like a quest.”

— Johnny Shaw

“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