“Father says hot water can be as stimulating as an alcoholic drink and though I never come by one...I can well believe it.”
“I don’t drink water, because if water can erode rock, think what it can do to flesh.”
“Drink my friends. You can never drink too much alcohol when you have drunk too much sorrow.” - Peter Kotara.”
“At times the engine stopped, and grown-ups and children climbed out of the carriages with tins to collect water from the engine steam pipes. This was the only drinking water that we had access to, and though it was hot and very rusty, it was the best drink I felt I’d ever had.”
“College is the best thing that can ever happen to you," my father used to say, and he was right, for it was there that I discovered drugs, drinking, and smoking..”
“I want to turn 21 as soon as possible not so that I can drink (how horrific!) but so that I can say, "I am ONE and TWENTY.”