Quote by Michael Ondaatje

“One of the rarest and most beautiful things in this world is to meet someone who has the ability to intoxicate you. Every moment…

— Richie Singh

“We knew each other’s histories and secrets, hopes and fears and dreams. When you need to get good and drunk, that’s the kind of…

— Jacqueline Carey

“It was pleasant - and the sense of otherness was nice, that there were two people involved in this process, that we were each…

— William Boyd

“We ate well and cheaply and we drank well and cheaply and we slept well and warm together and loved each other.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“To the poor memories of drunks,' she said. 'To all the lovely nights forever lost.”

— S. Fitts

“On such a night,’ I thought, ‘were ill and good, Bright and unlovely; precious, tawdry, All mingled into one And pressed against my heart.”

— Irene Hunt

“I remember that night fondly. And by fondly, I mean with bitter resentment toward all things alcoholic and with a penis.”

— Tara Sivec

“He was in that stage of love–and of liquor–where one is completely taken up with oneself, and can get along very well without the…

— Françoise Sagan

“Even if this night we were spending together and everything else was just going to disappear into the past, that was all right -…

— Banana Yoshimoto

“Much that we had appreciated about one another had been left unsaid. In humor, in life and in love, we had understood.”

— Jasper Fforde

“It was a blinding kind of thing, this unbelievable friendship—this love—I had with and for him. It was mine and it made me happy,…

— Mariana Zapata

“That first drunk, first high, first sexual encounter, those feelings of first are the most intense, the best remembered, always impossible to attain again.”

— Justin Donner