Catherine

“No one ever found any answers at the bottom of a bottle. Not the point, of course. The point of reaching the bottom of the bottle is generally to forget the questions.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Chalk Man

“She wept and suffered, and finally, when Father had left the house again, she went to one of her secret places where a bottle was, and drank a tunnel away from the pain.”
― Nina Kiriki Hoffman, A Stir of Bones

“You enter the cave of the bear to become its master or its meat.”
― Kerry Cue, Forgotten Wisdom

“I have never seen anyone drink like he did. To say he drank with a vengeance is almost understating it: it was almost as if there was a thirst there, a deep and insatiable craving that made the man keep going back for more and more until he sat down in one corner with a bottle.”
― Yudhanjaya Wijeratne, Numbercaste