In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead (Dave Robicheaux, #6) QUOTES

1 " When people make a contract with the devil and give him an air-conditioned office to work in, he doesn't go back home easily. "

― James Lee Burke , In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead (Dave Robicheaux, #6)

3 " No matter what the other side does to you, you grin and walk through the cannon smoke. It drives them crazy. "

― James Lee Burke , In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead (Dave Robicheaux, #6)

5 " wimples "

― James Lee Burke , In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead (Dave Robicheaux, #6)

7 " At age nineteen I did not want to accept the possibility that a man’s murder could be treated with the social significance of a hangnail that had been snipped off someone’s finger. "

― James Lee Burke , In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead (Dave Robicheaux, #6)

9 " I messed my pants,” he said. "

― James Lee Burke , In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead (Dave Robicheaux, #6)

11 " Then millions of lights came on in the canyons, along the freeways, and through the vast sweep of the Los Angeles basin, and it was almost as if you were looking down upon the end point of the American dream, a geographical poem into which all our highways eventually led, a city of illusion founded by conquistadors and missionaries and consigned to the care of angels, where far below the spinning propellers of our seaplane black kids along palm-tree-lined streets in Watts hunted each other with automatic weapons. "

― James Lee Burke , In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead (Dave Robicheaux, #6)

13 " MY DREAMS TOOK me many places: sometimes back to a windswept firebase on the top of an orange hill gouged with shell holes; a soft, mist-streaked morning with ducks rising against a pink sun while my father and I crouched in the blind and waited for that heart-beating moment when their shadows would race across the cattails and reeds toward us; a lighted American Legion baseball diamond, where at age seventeen I pitched a perfect game against a team from Abbeville and a beautiful woman I didn’t know, perhaps ten years my senior, kissed me so hard on the mouth that my ears rang. "

― James Lee Burke , In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead (Dave Robicheaux, #6)

15 " They see what they need to see. Black folk cain’t be choicy. They see what they gots to see. "

― James Lee Burke , In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead (Dave Robicheaux, #6)

17 " How many lives would have been spared had we not lent ourselves to the defense of a repellent cause like slavery? "

― James Lee Burke , In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead (Dave Robicheaux, #6)