Drinking also maroons you without provisions on the island of self. Like most other promises it makes, alcohol's vow of kinship, that it will bridge your life to others, smooth the way, proves false. Fooled again: you're alone.

— James Sallis

Drinking gave me a rush of confidence, and for a boy hounded by feelings of inadequacy, the buzz was a welcome relief. What was impossible to realize at the time was that I was shooting myself in the head in some strange time warp where the bullet takes many years to finally reach its target.

— Brennan Manning

Ethan didn't mind his blood being taken - he just disliked the fact that it had to be sucked through a needle in order to do it.

— Belinda G. Buchanan

Every person in the AA program who's successful is living proof that he or she does have power over addictive drugs and alcohol-the power to stop.

— Chris Prentiss

Far above him a few white clouds were racing windily after a pale gibbous moon. Drink all morning, they said to him, drink all day. This is life!

— Malcolm Lowry

Getting sober is a radically creative act.

— Meredith Bell

Gin and whiskey cost so much more. Oblivion and courage could no longer be purchased for the price of an old song.

— Norah Hoult

God cannot be happy when we ignore such issues as crime, corruption, alcoholism and child neglect

— Sunday Adelaja

...gripping the rim of the sink you claw your way to stand and cling there, quaking with will, on heron legs, and still the hot muck pours out of you. (p. 27)

— Barbara Blatner

Happiness was an evasive emotion that could not be fabricated, duplicated, or happened upon. It was something that was only handed out to a select few, but just like his mother, Ethan realized that he was never meant to have it.

— Belinda G. Buchanan