Anti-requiem Quotes

“Thinking about leaving is something I sometimes do. Staying is what I do every day without thinking.”
― Louis Maistros, Anti-requiem: New Orleans Stories

“Maybe God's intention is that we find our way to the bigger truths only through imagination and blind faith.”
― Louis Maistros, Anti-requiem: New Orleans Stories

“This is the proper form of New Orleans history telling. To hell with the annoying truth. The unspoken rule of thumb is this: Tell it how it ought to have been and not necessarily how it was; leave out the misery and heartache wherever you can.”
― Louis Maistros, Anti-requiem: New Orleans Stories

“Sometimes I wondered how much of those stories were true, but after a while I realized it didn't matter because their telling improved my days, and I have learned not to question things of this nature.”
― Louis Maistros, Anti-requiem: New Orleans Stories

“Well, could be some folks think a whole lot and never stop to consider much.”
― Louis Maistros, Anti-requiem: New Orleans Stories

“Maybe you askin' the wrong questions, or maybe you ain't listening to the answers right.”
― Louis Maistros, Anti-requiem: New Orleans Stories

“A feelin'. And ain't nobody can take credit for a feelin'. Feelin' is something—well, either you got it or you don't. Can't invent no feelin'.”
― Louis Maistros, Anti-requiem: New Orleans Stories

“Ya keep calling it a sound, but that ain't quite right, y' know. I wouldn't call it a sound at all. More lika feelin'.”
― Louis Maistros, Anti-requiem: New Orleans Stories

“Well, my sense of passin' time done got messed up long ago.”
― Louis Maistros, Anti-requiem: New Orleans Stories

“It's the reason we are here on this earth, little sister. We are educating God.”
― Louis Maistros, Anti-requiem: New Orleans Stories

“All kinds of grays in the hearts of men, little sis. What feels right in the heart of one might feel wrong in the heart of another, and so forth and so on.”
― Louis Maistros, Anti-requiem: New Orleans Stories

“Could be we're here to answer God's questions and not the other way around. Follow?”
― Louis Maistros, Anti-requiem: New Orleans Stories

“Before you can get lonely you have to miss someone, and if you're all there is and ever was then you never get the chance to pine—or even to imagine the pining.”
― Louis Maistros, Anti-requiem: New Orleans Stories

“No, my answers are for me, but maybe I can point you in the direction of your own.”
― Louis Maistros, Anti-requiem: New Orleans Stories

“Her only prayer is this: That you may find your own magic, in your own heart, in your own faith, in your own God-given ability to love others and to be loved, and that you may allow these things into your soul without question or regret.”
― Louis Maistros, Anti-requiem: New Orleans Stories

“The devil is yours alone to battle. He does not exist in her world, at all.”
― Louis Maistros, Anti-requiem: New Orleans Stories

“Smiles a little. Ugly a little. Skips outta that coffeeplace singing. Ugly but kinda pretty. Like someone in love.”
― Louis Maistros, Anti-requiem: New Orleans Stories