A Dark Roux Quotes

“Good memories do not justify present evils.”
― Blaine Daigle, A Dark Roux

“Gumbo in summer?” “If you make it right, it don’t matter what time of the year it is.”
― Blaine Daigle, A Dark Roux

“There are two seasons in the bayou: death and rebirth.”
― Blaine Daigle, A Dark Roux

“When death abandons life… well, that is not a good roux for anyone.”
― Blaine Daigle, A Dark Roux

“Fuck that. Good memories do not justify present evils.”
― Blaine Daigle, A Dark Roux

“Just a room empty of everything but memories and moments that would eventually pass with time. No trace would be left of him here. No story written on the walls of the room. But perhaps that was for the best. Maybe that was the way it was always meant to go. The stains you leave behind are eventually washed clean by those who come after, so why should the house be any different?”
― Blaine Daigle, A Dark Roux

“Maybe that’s what life was. A series of stolen decisions made by people who didn’t understand a damn thing about you.”
― Blaine Daigle, A Dark Roux

“There was a serenity to the world as well, a quietness that might fool one into thinking the place a normal ecosystem. But that was just its usual daytime slumber. The place came alive at night.”
― Blaine Daigle, A Dark Roux

“It hadn’t changed at all. The town and everybody in it remained chained to their past in a way Rhiannon swore she would never be.”
― Blaine Daigle, A Dark Roux

“flavor runs through everything in life. And gumbo is like telling a story.”
― Blaine Daigle, A Dark Roux

“Sometimes a turn of phrase would throw her off, or a character description would go over her head. But the darkness of the novel living within those old, yellow pages always struck true and familiar in such a way that it felt special. She read it slow, savoring every syllable, every description.”
― Blaine Daigle, A Dark Roux

“The only things in the bayou longer than memories were grudges.”
― Blaine Daigle, A Dark Roux

“This is a world that time did not forget, but purposely left alone.”
― Blaine daigle, A Dark Roux