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1 " This is why I drank, you know. Because I wanted every day to be like that. I wanted every day to feel like a movie montage, or at least to end in an epiphany, or at least to have a clear narrative arc, or at least to make some level of sense. "
― , Nothing Good Can Come from This
2 " Can you ask the bartender to make me something nonalcoholic that isn't sweet?'... What he got was a coupe glass filled with something that tasted a little like tea, a little like soda, and a lot like belonging. It was delicious. "
3 " Because I just don't really care about what the liquid in my glass says about me anymore. I'd like to tell you it's because sobriety cured my need for specialness. I'd like to tell you I invented the stapler and can start fires with my mind. But no. "
4 " Look, I admire people who can spend all their time living smack in the middle of their problems and fears. But if I had that innate capability, I probably wouldn't have become a drunk. And in early sobriety I saw nothing wrong with taking my reality in small doses. "
5 " Do you hate me?' I asked.He smiled, his eyes made a slightly paler blue with tears in them. 'You're asking if I hate you for being a woman with a fuckload of unruly feelings?'I nodded.'No I don't hate you,' he said. 'Jesus baby. Why would I want anything else?' And I stared at him, enthralled. "
6 " What I'm thinking, but don't know yet how to say out loud, is Does anyone know what they're becoming until they've become it? I'd been running for three years before I realized I was a runner. I'd been drinking for twenty-five before I knew I was a drunk. "
7 " You are perilously close to having the life you’ve always wanted,” she says. “It’s not surprising to me that you would panic. "
8 " Yes, he had a temper that left at least one hole in our walls before he went to therapy and got a handle on it. But he treated me like a superhero princess and was also warm, responsible, hilarious, and kind to children and animals. "
9 " I’m burning with clarity, and I want all of womankind to burn with me so we can incinerate the patriarchy just by existing. I don’t want women to blur the edges of their bad days or use wine to talk themselves down from causing righteous trouble. "
10 " Booze is the oil in our motors, the thing that keeps us purring when we should be making other kinds of noise. "
