Quote by Nancy Bilyeau

“We are governed by what you find in the bottom of dead beer glasses that whores have dunked their cigarettes in. The place has…

— Ernest Hemingway

“We're needed to save an innocent barrel of wine from a lecherous duke's son.”

— Alethea Kontis

“...a single tongue of flame shooting out the side of the O'Learys' barn. (Where the fire started)”

— Jim Murphy

“I carried my pint to a corner table and sat just looking at it for a moment: the head of foam, the tiny bubbles…

— Poppy Z. Brite

“The echo of the first shot, like the first sip of whiskey, burning...”

— Richard K. Morgan

“...the liquor like fire in his hand”

— Sharon Olds

“I had to order the supplies for the hot cider punch and—for those needing a touch of alcohol to make it through Walter’s reinvention…

— Suzanne M. Trauth

“The Men of Faith will play the cup-bearers at this lifelong bacchanal, filling and ever filling again with the warm liquor that the Intelligences,…

— Aldous Huxley

“The whiskey kicked like a mugger.”

— Ken Bruen

“Sweat, scalded meat, puke, blood, smoke and a dozen kinds of bad ale and wine: the bouquet of civilized nightlife”

— Scott Lynch

“But alas! Firemen [stoking a ship] are not what they were. The gor-blimey firemen of the coal-burning days must, I think, be a diminishing…

— Ommanney F. D

“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