Quote by Winston Graham Download Open image ““He felt righteous and unashamed. He decided to go to bed sober.”” — Winston Graham ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“In sober moments, it shamed him to think and act like he did. But he wasn't sober now.” — Joanna Jordan Copy Share Image
“There was only one way to get through the rest of the evening and it wasn't sober.” — sarra manning Copy Share Image
“Aside from these infrequent outbursts he possesses the gentle demeanor that sometimes trails the newly sober, that deep acceptance that comes with realizing how… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
“Drunk, he was leering and silent and mostly asleep. Sober, he was a watcher, a horror of a man who missed nothing and commented… — Donal Ryan Copy Share Image
“He was drunk, but this was something he’d thought about for a long time and needed no sobriety to express—just a listener.” — Olen Steinhauer Copy Share Image
“He lives alone, no wife or children, most of his waking hours drunk. I don’t want to end up like that.” — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“He was so drunk that he would have stubbornly denied that he was.” — Filippo Bologna Copy Share Image
“back into bed and he came willingly, ashamed of the concern he saw in her sleepy face. The desperation” — Brian Harmon Copy Share Image
“But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I went into the crapper and took myself a beautiful beershit. Then I went to bed, jacked off, and slept.” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Any respectable alcoholic, worth his salt, should wish to wake up dead.” — Robert Black Copy Share Image
“Yet, although he could not quite work this out in simple terms in his own mind, the very savour of life, he thought, was… — Winston Graham Copy Share Image
When you bring an idealised relationship down to the level of an ordinary one it isn't necessarily the ordinary one that suffers'. — Winston Graham Copy Share Image
“It is hopeless for older people to tell younger ones – particularly their own children – that they have been through the same thing.… — Winston Graham Copy Share Image
Give me the comma of imperfect striving, thus to find zest in the immediate living. Ever the reaching but never the gaining, ever the… — Winston Graham Copy Share Image
“Tedn’t right. Tedn’t tidy. Tedn’t fair. Tedn’t clean. Tedn’t good enough.” — Winston Graham Copy Share Image
“he was deeply annoyed at having to leave the fair before he was drunk, a thing that had never happened to him since he… — Winston Graham Copy Share Image
“Perhaps,” said Demelza, trembling all over. “Perhaps I’d ought to have asked for an introduction seeing it’s so long since we met.” “I don’t… — Winston Graham Copy Share Image
“Give me some surety if you want to continue. It is not late yet.” Ross offered his gold watch, which had belonged to his… — Winston Graham Copy Share Image
“Not for the first time he was conscious of emotional lights and shades in his wife that could not be categorized, could not be… — Winston Graham Copy Share Image
“Sir Hugh squeezed her arm so often that Demelza began to wonder if the show was all a pretext for being with her in… — Winston Graham Copy Share Image
“All the conflicting feeling inside her suddenly found an outlet. The mixed motives for asking him in—the liking, the affection, the feminine curiosity, the… — Winston Graham Copy Share Image
“It’s gone!” he shouted. “The brandy!” said Prudie, lurching to her feet. “’Ere, who’s stolen it? ’Twas there an hour gone—” “Not all three… — Winston Graham Copy Share Image
