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In the Beauty of the Lilies

Updike, John | Knopf, 1996

 

p. 298

“People who drink want you to drink too. . . She was still Presbyterian enough to fear alcohol. It ate lives, in from the edges, lurking in cupboards and becoming the secret reason for every gathering of two or three, and one day people woke up and realized that liquor had stolen their lives away.”