Donal O'Callaghan

“At heart alcoholism feels like the accumulation of dozens of such connections, dozens of tiny fears and hungers and rages, dozens of experiences and memories that collect in the bottom of your soul, coalescing over many many many drinks into a single liquid solution.”
― Caroline Knapp, Drinking: A Love Story

“Every woman is born with her own sense of style and idea of beauty. To stifle that is a sin as great as snuffing out a blossoming bud, a one-of-a-kind flower will never bloom again.”
― Toni Sorenson

“Recovering alcoholics often talk about drinking “the way they wanted to” when they were alone, drinking without the feeling of social restraint they might have had at a party or in a restaurant. There’s something almost childlike about the need, and about the language we use to describe it: wanting our bottles, wanting to crawl into that dark room in our minds and curl up and be alone with our object of security.”
― Caroline Knapp, Drinking: A Love Story

“New York allowed me to have the freedom I never felt was possible growing up in Ireland. It opened up a yearning world of curiosity inside of me, ignited the explorer, trained me to really open my eyes, listen with my ears and feed into the city's incredibly infectious creative energy. It was here I started to dream again to dream of what it could be like to really allow me to be me.”
― Donal O'Callaghan