Quote by Jonathan Dee

“She had called Cynthia then to come out and speak the truth, and Cynthia had uplifted and encouraged her.”

— Jan Karon

“Charm, my dear, Cynthia wanted to tell her, is not learned, it is innate. And it is honed by desperation and need and sharpened…

— Julie Anne Long

“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

“She was certainly rather drunk. Her eyes were fixed as if upon some far-off point. She seemed to be contemplating a future at once…

— Jean Rhys

“She was rather like one of those innocent-tasting American drinks which creep imperceptibly into your system so that, before you know what you're doing,…

— P. G. Wodehouse

“Now here's the good part. It was the part where Monica told me was the reason her life had seemed to collapse. It was…

— Mira Kirshenbaum

“She downed the last of her beer, knowing that her wayward thoughts were Drunk Allison coming out to play. She wasn’t even drunk proper…

— Melissa Cutler

“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

“She was by herself whether she wanted to be or not, and no amount of brandy would make it any different.”

— Alexandra Ripley

“She liked, most of all, that in this place of affluent ease, she could pretend to be someone else, someone specially admitted into a…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“She’s still smiling her little smile, and it strikes me that, actually, she is drunk, not on alcohol, but on her St. Louis hopes…

— Tim Tharp

“I appreciated her bluntness. Maybe it came with her sudden sobriety. Here she was back in the brightly lit world she had been avoiding…

— Robert Charles Wilson