The Curse of Chalion (World of the Five Gods, #1)

by Lois McMaster Bujold

Cazaril sat up, fighting the slurry that the wine seemed to be making of his brains.

I’ll end up drinking myself blind again, just to make my brain stop spinning round and round inside my skull.”

“Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice—if not whether, then how, they may endure.”