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“I'll never amount to anything—well anything my parents want,
so instead I’ll end up puking and drinking till I’m blind drunk,
It’s funny my mother says I hurt myself to spite her
but she doesn’t know I hurt myself because I am, I am, I am a writer.”
― P.A. Bitez, Soft Tortures

“...and you drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, 'That was fine'. And your life is a long line of fine.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“Her mind was like a spring-tide in full flood; rich, shining, vigorous, and capable of infinite variety.”
― Vera Brittain, Testament of Friendship

“I have, he went on, betrayed myself with
belief, deluded myself with love
tricked myself with sex.

the bottle is damned faithful, he said,
the bottle will not lie”
― Charles Bukowski, Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit