" As the ample Hedda, who disguised her ampleness behind a billow of yellow summer dress, told it, her life up ’til she hoisted this very bloody mary in her hand was a convoluted tale of bubbly love gone flat, fine talents unnoticed and similarly woeful bullshit. "

― Daniel Woodrell , The Bayou Trilogy: Under the Bright Lights, Muscle for the Wing, and The Ones You Do