You just got sprung."
"Nig Rosewater out there?" Clete asked.
"Nig Rosewater hasn't been up at this hour since World War II.

James Lee Burke


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The air smelled like Bayou Teche when it's spring and the fish are spawning among the water hyacinths and the frogs are throbbing in the cattails and the flooded cypress.

James Lee Burke

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No one likes to be afraid. Fear is the enemy of love

James Lee Burke

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..why is it that in problematic situations almost everyone resorts to axioms and societal remedies that in actuality almost nobody believes in?...ask yourself, have you ever known anyone whose marriage was saved by a marriage counselor, whose drinking was cured by a psychiatrist, whose son was kept out of reform school by a social worker?

James Lee Burke


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Every third night a commitee holds a meeting in my head.

James Lee Burke


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If there is any human tragedy, there is only one, and it occurs when we forget who we are and remain silent while a stranger takes up residence inside our skin.

James Lee Burke

Mots clés self



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It's a great burden, being one of the good guys.

James Lee Burke


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One day you'll have a quiet heart.

James Lee Burke


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If we break promises to God, shouldn't we be allowed an occasional violation of our word to our friends and superiors?

James Lee Burke


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Death was a rodent that ate its way inch by inch through your entrails, chewed at your liver and stomach, severed tendon from organ, until finally, when you were along in the dark, it sat gorged and sleek next to your head, its eyes resting, its wet muzzle like a kiss, a promise whispered in your ear.

James Lee Burke


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