Delta Quotes

“The moon was obscured by heavy clouds. January was already past the mid-mark and the early delta spring would soon be on them. Already on the night was the faint, fresh smell of buddings and the intimacy that comes from the warm delta air trapped between slumbering earth and lowering clouds.”
― Leslie H. Whitten Jr., Moon of the Wolf

“I know why the best blues artist comes from Mississippi,” Hooker told an interviewer from Melody Maker in 1964. “Because it’s the worst state. You have the blues all right if you’re down in Mississippi.”
― Ted Gioia, Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music

“The Niger delta as a matter of urgency needs to re-think its development strategy by developing her non-oil sectors. There is no easy way out of this, and we will all see that at the end it is the only way out.”
― Emi Iyalla

“In a quick moment, Cole was in front of her. Simply there. He leaned in, their breath mingling. His warm lips touched hers lightly, and he kissed her. 


His scent was that of the pine forest, the air and the land around them, and it dazzled her. His strength, his determination to treat her exactly the way she wanted to be treated, ever-changing as it was—dazzled her more.”
― Susan Saxx, A Real Man: The First Miracle

“My kitty wishes to engulf you within her darkened delta of destruction.”
― Matt Fraction, Sex Criminals, Vol. 3: Three the Hard Way

“She finally reached them, and bestowed a careful smile on him. “Up and at ‘em early this morning, Cowboy?” Her statement sounded normal but he caught the double meaning in her eyes.


After you launched me to the moon and back, more than once, in the early hours of the morning? You actually got the energy?
”
― Susan Saxx, A Real Man: The Last Miracle

“It’s a riptide. You don’t fight the current Rachel, that’s how even strong swimmers exhaust themselves and die. Swim parallel to the coast instead. The ocean’s gonna get bored of you eventually, she’ll let you go if you’re patient enough and don’t fight her.”
― Kristy McGinnis, Motion of Intervals