"Damn. I never should have agreed to this. What is he thinking? Here we are in a piece of crap pickup truck on our way to sit outside of a supermarket to kidnap this girl. Damn. He’d better not be fall..."
- Jenna-Lynne Duncan
"She was evil. Couldn't he, who killed demons with his own hands, realize that? And now I had to run for Mardi Gras Queen because of him. Or her. I didn't know whose fault it was but there was no way I..."
"Times are not good here. The city is crumbling into ashes. It has been buried under taxes and frauds and maladministrations so that it has become a study for archaeologists...but it is better to live ..."
- Lafcadio Hearn
"Fidelity is a living, breathing entity. On wobbly footing, it can wander, becoming something different entirely."
- Kay Goodstadt
"If New Orleans is not fully in the mainstream of culture, neither is it fully in the mainstream of time. Lacking a well-defined present, it lives somewhere between its past and its future, as if uncer..."
- Tom Robbins
"You knows dat in New Orleans is not morning 'til dee sun come up."
"White folks have controlled New Orleans with money and guns, black folks have controlled it with magic and music, and although there has been a steady undercurrent of mutual admiration, an intermingli..."
"Funny thing about love, ain’t it? Sometimes it saves you and sometimes, like right then, even love isn’t enough."
- Eden Butler
"My places were emotional, primarily. I wrote of locales in which I had lived, or in which I imagined I could live, but the topography was primal and sexual and terminal. It bore no distinct architectu..."
- James Grissom
"If there was no New Orleans, America would just be a bunch of free people dying of boredom." -Judy Deck in an e-mail sent to Chris Rose"
- Chris Rose