Hallie

“Courage is a vitamin best swallowed with whiskey.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale

“Our restaurant fostered a sense of camaraderie in a number of ways besides sharing the same nickname of 'chef.' Initially, we bonded through training. Once we opened, we worked in teams each night, meaning that we not only knew our colleagues well, we depended on them. Most importantly, we all had 'family meal' together every night, just like President Bush recommended to all families so that their children would have good values and grow up to be gun-toting, pro-life, pro-death, gas-guzzling, warmongering, monolingual, homophobic, wiretapped, Bible-thumping, genetically engineered, stem-cell harboring, abstinent creationists. Oops, I think I just lost all of my red state readers. To make up for it, I'll let you lose my ballot.”
― Phoebe Damrosch, Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter

“I’m a competitor. I once placed fifth in a bottle of whiskey.”
― Jarod Kintz, This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

“There was a sad fellow over on a bar stool talking to the bartender, who was polishing a glass and listening with that plastic smile people wear when they are trying not to scream.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye