Southern Gods Quotes

“Well, there’s not much to remember about Arkansas, if you’re lucky.”
― John Hornor Jacobs, Southern Gods

“Only couple of things to go to Arkansas for. One’s hunting and t’other’s fishing.”
― John Hornor Jacobs, Southern Gods

“Over there, in Arkansas, things don’t go the same way they go everywhere else. Things take longer, things go wrong. Roads are bad, bridges go out. It’s backward, Bull. But it’s got its strong points too.”
― John Hornor Jacobs, Southern Gods

“That Ramblin’ John sings with the Devil’s voice and plays with the Devil’s hands. That when he sings, it’s like he’s casting a spell. That he’s got songs that if you heard them, they’d drive you mad. That his songs can raise the dead.” Miller paused here, uncertain. “They say his voice can get a woman with child if she hears it full.”
― John Hornor Jacobs, Southern Gods

“They call him the Yellow King. Or the Tattered Man. He plays and sings his songs with the Devil’s voice.”
― John Hornor Jacobs, Southern Gods