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“At this point, none of us are sure why we fight. We’re sisters. We need no good reason to fight, even though we have plenty of them.”
― Sweet as Cane, Salty as Tears
― Sweet as Cane, Salty as Tears
“In Louisiana, one of the first stages of grief is eating your weight in Popeyes fried chicken. The second stage is doing the same with boudin. People have been known to swap the order. Or to do both at the same time.”
― Sweet as Cane, Salty as Tears
― Sweet as Cane, Salty as Tears
“Pork and chicken grease, the aromatics of choice for the Cajun.”
― Sweet as Cane, Salty as Tears
― Sweet as Cane, Salty as Tears
“Prideful fool. It hurt his feelings that he couldn’t make my crazy go away. You know how men are. Always trying to fix things can’t be fixed.”
― Sweet as Cane, Salty as Tears
― Sweet as Cane, Salty as Tears
“Just enough to make up for all the fucking taxes the government took out of my regular paycheck. “Free” counseling. “Free” healthcare. “Free” employment services. “Free” food. There’s no such thing as a free lunch. Keep that in mind. Somewhere, somehow, somebody is paying. For everything.”
― Bacon and Egg Man: A Novel
― Bacon and Egg Man: A Novel
“I climbed aboard a Greyhound bus and rode it to New York without telling anyone, without so much as a goodbye. What was I thinking? I wasn’t. I was young and stupid and broken. I knew from watching movies that broken people hopped on buses and disappeared. New York seemed far away, geographically, mentally.”
― Sweet as Cane, Salty as Tears
― Sweet as Cane, Salty as Tears
