

“John Barleycorn's inhibition rises like a wall between
one's immediate desires and long-learned morality.”
― John Barleycorn: Alcoholic Memoirs
one's immediate desires and long-learned morality.”
― John Barleycorn: Alcoholic Memoirs

“That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.”
― Paper Towns
― Paper Towns

“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five

“The cafe windows wrapped all the way around the observation floor, which gave us a beautiful panoramic view of the skeleton army that had come to kill us.”
― The Titan's Curse
― The Titan's Curse
“The bar staff and croupiers all wore black with the same green triangle logo emblazoned on their shirts, and contact lenses which made their eyes shine an eerie, vibrant green. The bar optics glowed with the same green light, the intensity of which was linked to the music. As the bartender walked away to fetch the drinks, a breakdown in the techno track commenced and the bottles began to palpitate. The bartender's eyes glowed with a hallucinatory felinity that made Mangle feel nervous.”
― The Zombie Room
― The Zombie Room
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