Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget

by Sarah Hepola

What a powerful voodoo—to believe brilliance could be sipped or poured.

“I want to feel what I feel,” she said. “Even if it’s not happiness.” That is true strength. To want what you have, and not what someone else is holding.

To know there is a book in you but to never find the nerve to wrestle it out.