Alcoholism Quote by Rebecca West

“Hell and furies!" Eleanor had begun to pace, her skirts swirling about her ankles. "What was he thinking?" "When does he ever think?" Richard…

— Sharon Kay Penman

“That she made a point to eat only the gristliest chicken bits, the burned biscuits, the mealiest potatoes, while she complained that his children…

— Paul Harding

“Evelyn was followed in by a sour-faced woman with long, glamorous dark hair and a stern-looking gentleman in a tuxedo who looked just like…

— Kristopher Jansma

“We all knew Evelyn as a woman who grabbed life with both hands," the elderly priest said, "whether she was winning ballroom dance competitions…

— Diana Dempsey

“So, you got shit-faced, spray-painted a barn with a lovely shade of Exorcist-green puke, fucked a donkey while you were there, and started a…

— Kendall Grey

It was a stretch to imagine that Barbara Walters might want to give it all up for Ed Couch, but Evelyn tried her hardest.…

— Fannie Flagg

“Evelyn was forty-eight years old and she had gotten lost somewhere along the wa. Things had changed so fast. While she had been raising…

— Fannie Flagg

“But here there were houses full of *stuff*, fancy sheets woven with silk floss as soft as a baby's bum; fancy washstands carved of…

— Meredith Duran

“in dawdling through the greenhouse, where the loss of her favorite plants, unwarily exposed, and nipped by the lingering frost, raised the laughter of…

— Jane Austen

“The furniture in the house had the same relationship to real furnishings that drag queens have to real women. Everything was a parody, done…

— Bob Smith

“She was glad she'd missed the river of corpses that must have filled the city streets during the initial phase of clean-up - wagon…

— Steven Erikson

She was made for untidy rooms and rumpled beds.

— Alexander McCall Smith