“Love is breakable, it can go away. But compulsions! They don’t go nowhere. Once you get one, that’s it. It’s you and your compulsion till death do you part. And you see, once she was gone, the compulsion had to go somewhere. That’s the nature of the compulsion, you see? I hadn’t had a drop of liquor in my whole life until that night. A month later there wasn’t a moonshiner in the county I didn’t know.
