“For the first time in my life, I said the words, “I need a drink.”
“I was getting depressed. My life wasn't going anywhere. I needed something, the flashing of lights, glamour, some damn thing. And here I was, talking to the dead. I finished my first drink. The second was ready.”
“All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.”
“My first words, as I was being born [...] I looked up at my mother and said, 'that's the last time I'm going up one of those.”
“When Hailey was born my first thought was that I needed a drink and that hospitals should have bars in them.”
“I thought, I fanced, that in a moment, I would be standing on nothing at all, and for the first time in my life, I needed the wings none of us has.”