Louisiana Longshot (Miss Fortune Mystery, #1) QUOTES

2 " I’d always gone out of my way to streamline my life—removing all potential complication. I suddenly realized that mostly meant not having people around. Clearly, people were the biggest complication life threw at you. "

― Jana Deleon , Louisiana Longshot (Miss Fortune Mystery, #1)

4 " Did you ever think you had all the answers when you were in the thick of something, but then when you take a step back, you realize you were so busy getting things done that you never stopped to ask yourself if it’s what you really want to do? "

― Jana Deleon , Louisiana Longshot (Miss Fortune Mystery, #1)

6 " God doesn't care about drinking beer. All those rules were made up by people trying to prevent you from doing something really wrong. Drunks make stupid decisions. If you don't drink, there’s less chance of doing something stupid. "

― Jana Deleon , Louisiana Longshot (Miss Fortune Mystery, #1)

8 " Ida Belle nodded. "All sorts of things rose out of the ground during Edgar. Why, my mother's coffin popped straight up out of the grave and cruised down Main Street. I always said you couldn't keep Moter down "

― Jana Deleon , Louisiana Longshot (Miss Fortune Mystery, #1)

10 " So, what were you doing that was such a secret?"
"Making moonshine."
I stared. "You're kidding me."
"Nope."
"Moonshine? As in rednecks and brown jugs and prohibition?"
Ida Belle drew herself up straight.
"It hasn't been illegal in quite some time. We're hardly rednecks, and we put all of our moonshine into pretty pink cough syrup bottles. "

― Jana Deleon , Louisiana Longshot (Miss Fortune Mystery, #1)

12 " Hey, Gertie, something strange happened last night.” Gertie patted my leg. “I’m sure it seemed that way, but things in Sinful are never quite normal compared to other places. "

― Jana Deleon , Louisiana Longshot (Miss Fortune Mystery, #1)

14 " There wasn't any place on my body I could hide a gun not with that sleazy dress I had to wear. And that shoe had a spike on it. What the hell else is it good for?''
'' Jesus, Redding.'' Harrison laughed. ''Haven't you seen a movie, a magazine ad… another woman in public? Stilettos are common among people with oestrogen.''
''Which explains why you know what they are, and I don't. Why don't you play the girl on the next mission? You're obviously better suited "

― Jana Deleon , Louisiana Longshot (Miss Fortune Mystery, #1)

16 " She was a beauty queen!''
''Holy shit.'' Harrison dissolved into a fit of laughter. ''No way is Redding pulling that one off. Look at her. Her hair's shorter than mine.
''My hair is convenient for my job,'' I said, running a hand over inch-long, blond locks that had been trapped under a hot wig the day before, ''and besides, I thought short hair was fashionable.''
''Short, yes,'' Harrison said, ''but you're sporting the Britney Spears Nervous Breakdown style. Not a hit among men or the beauty pageant circuit "

― Jana Deleon , Louisiana Longshot (Miss Fortune Mystery, #1)

18 " brow. "

― Jana Deleon , Louisiana Longshot (Miss Fortune Mystery, #1)

20 " I stepped off the Learjet at the private airfield just before dawn. I’d been on the plane exactly seventeen hours, twenty-six minutes and fourteen seconds, wearing the same eight-hundred-dollar dress I’d worn when I killed a man twenty-five hours earlier. "

― Jana Deleon , Louisiana Longshot (Miss Fortune Mystery, #1)