Monique Truong Quote

All my favorite establishments were either overly crowded or pathetically empty. People either sipped fine vintages in celebration or gulped intoxicants of who cares what kind, drowning themselves in a lack of moderation, raising a glass to lower inhibitions, imbibing spirits to raise their own.

The Book of Salt: A Novel (ed. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004) - ISBN: 9780547524993