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“What happens outside of us doesn’t count. That’s something we don’t have control over. It’s what we do with it, the way that we react to it, that’s important.”
― James Lee Burke, A Dave Robicheaux Ebook Boxed Set: Neon Rain, Heaven's Prisoners, Excerpt from The Glass Rainbow

“I guess that seems like an absurd premise until we consider the possibility that the dead are always with us, beckoning from the shade, reminding us that we’re actors in the same drama they have already lived and that they can help us with our lives if we will only let them.”
― James Lee Burke, Light of the World

“In a badass, beer-glass brawl, would you rather have an academic liberal covering your back or a hobnailed redneck?”
― James Lee Burke, Black Cherry Blues

“The wrong people always worry. The people who are the real problem never worry about anything.”
― James Lee Burke, Wayfaring Stranger