Buffalo Quote by Rick Riordan

His most frequent ailment was the headache which he used to relieve by inhaling the steam of coffee.

— Samuel Johnson

They tied his arms behind his back to teach him how to swim, they put blood in his coffee and milk in his gin.

— Lou Reed

That was devastating to me: how a bright, energetic kid could turn doomed and desperate.

— Patty Jenkins

“Then he drank the coffee. "Ahhh! Ohh! Oh, oh, oh, what? What? What is that?!" "What?" I asked, alarmed. I swiveled my head back…

— K.A. Applegate

They sat on a bench and Sproule held his wounded arm to his chest and rocked back and forth and blinked in the sun.…

— Cormac McCarthy

“He curled up, twitching and spasming, the pain stormtrooping through his entire body in agonizing, dizzying, pounding waves. He vomited, but it wasn’t the…

— Blake Crouch

A small girl became increasingly paralysed by her parents' frequently violent rows. Sometimes she would spend hours standing completely still in the toilet, simply…

— Sarah Kane

“He realised at once that a mistake had been made: he had been sent the wrong hangover. Somewhere in northern Rhodesia there was a…

— Ned Beauman

“He sinks down on the stool, breathing heavily. His hands are still shaking as if he were standing waist-deep in ice-cold water. His chest…

— Fredrik Backman

A victim of the use of water as a beverage.

— Sam Houston

“Might be it was something to do with the threshold of adolescent age he was entering in. His heart was beating fast. His knees…

— Raj Doctor

“With the rum bottle empty, Marsh had moved on to the Guinness in the kitchen cupboard. After a bottle and a half, he’d decided…

— Mark Ellis