Every man Quote by Nadeem Aslam

“The empty glass and empty seat beside his own told me he was the loon's drinking pal. Behind him, with the bar between them,…

— Dylan Jones

“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

“in the high, old tottering voice that seemed to have been tuned and broken at the capstan bars. Then he rapped on the door…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“It was the strain of a forsaken lady, who after bewailing the perfidy of her lover, calls her pride to her aid, desires her…

— Charlotte Brontë

“two unconscious, bleeding men and then over at the girl behind the bar. She was staring at him openmouthed, the glass-rag and beer mug…

— David Baldacci

“This had always been the worst time when the quiet emptiness could leave him gasping for breath. She was there, his wife, a peripheral…

— Sarah Winman

“Sobering to think how one accursed night of baccarat can alter a man's social standing so irreversibly.”

— David Mitchell

“I was reminded of a married chatelaine who, after sleeping with a young vassal one night, had him seized by the palace guards the…

— André Aciman

“I was sitting at the bar of the Hegira that night when Ginny came in. The barkeep, an ancient sad-eyed patriarch named Jose, had…

— Stephen R. Donaldson

“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

“You see, I’ve heard of a man whose friend had been imprisoned and who slept on the floor of his room every night in…

— Albert Camus

“The old man had been stoking and sipping at his pipe for the last fifteen minutes as they awaited the prisoner. The smoke of…

— Michael Chabon