Status Updates From The Legend of Drizzt, Book IV

"Their relationship had been so simple at the start, so straightforward: two people in need of each other. Recently, though, it had become more complex, the needs having grown into emotional crutches. Delly needed Wulfgar to take care of her, to shelter her, to tell her she was beautiful, but Wulfgar knew he couldn't even take care of himself, let alone another."

"Intoxicants lock the imbiber in the present, the here and now, without regard for the future, without consideration of the past." That's why teens and young adults are so easily taken with them.