“My uncle's a big drinker. In fact, he just got a liver transplant. They replaced it with a bottle of whiskey.”
“In the eyelid-blue betweenness the wordy sounds of the whiskey-drinkers spilled distantly.”
“You learn to smile even in you liver?''Even in my lire, Ketut. Big smile in my liver.”
“Beer bottles, whiskey bottles, brown glass, green. They fell to the lawn and I'd feel serene. Adam was king to my stilted queen.”
“A brick could be surgically inserted in the chest of a man who needs a heart transplant. And for just $20,000 more dollars, that brick could be replaced with a new heart. ”
“The bottle of whiskey - the second one - was now in constant demand by all present, excepting Catherine, who 'felt just as good on nothing at all.”