“You tell a soul or even God Hisself what you seen when the rougarou changes , or even that you met one, and a year aint passed, youre liable to change to one yourself.”

“Not having any drink about aint the same as not understanding the need for one. Times like these change a bodys perspective.”

“I dont like coming over here at night, the girl said. The bayou is scary in the dark, all manner of things running wild out there.”

“Youll likely always have some reason or other to hang onto that girl. You just want her cause she was married to your son, and I understand that, he was a friend to me like a brother, near the only...”

“Tastes change, Cherie. I find the older I get the more I like to be reminded of my youth.”

“Wars all either country knows, and everything seems to depend on it now.”

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of wi...”

“My dear,Find what you love and let it kill you.Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.Let it kill you and let it devour your remains....”

“If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?”

“You tell a soul or even God Hisself what you seen when the rougarou changes , or even that you met one, and a year aint passed, youre liable to change to one yourself.”

“Youll likely always have some reason or other to hang onto that girl. You just want her cause she was married to your son, and I understand that, he was a friend to me like a brother, near the only...”

“Tastes change, Cherie. I find the older I get the more I like to be reminded of my youth.”

“As the tension between the Protestants and the Church of Rome intensified, so did the desire for a third way among dissenting groups. Soon a new group emerged, though in some senses it was also an ...”

“Good men are often more practical than pretty " said Mother. "Andrius just happens to be both.”

“How did I get here How did I end up in the arms of a boy I barely knew but knew I didn't want to lose I wondered what I would have thought of Andrius in Lithuania. Would I have liked him Would he h...”