“Tea instead of gin will warm the heart.”
“EM Forster never gets any further than warming the tea pot... Is it not beautifully warm? Yes, but there ain't going to be no tea.”
“the gin kept my heart alive but bemazed my brain”
“By 12.30, Giles had consumed five gin-rickies, four gin-and-tonics, three gin-and-its, two gin-and-bitters, and one gin.”
“Her words, they're not warm anymore. She might want me to hear them that way, but they're burning me up instead. In my mind. In my heart”
“Let the two cross-tops and junk gin and four no-filter Camels make your heart pound.”