Elysian Fields Quotes

“Keeping up with him would require running, and there is no dignity in running after any man for any reason, injured or not.”
― Suzanne Johnson, Elysian Fields

“We'd all mourn for a while, but at the end of the day we were a tough lot, and we'd survive.”
― Suzanne Johnson, Elysian Fields

“The fight wasn’t over,” I said through gritted teeth. “I’d have won it.”
Probably.
“Right,” he said. “And something just flew past your window. It was oinking.”
― Suzanne Johnson, Elysian Fields

“I always hated it when TV reporters stuck a microphone in the faces of people who'd just lost a home or a loved one, wanting to know how they felt. They felt like shit. They hurt, and they didn't know how they were going to get through the night. They wanted to scream and cry and hit the guy with the microphone.”
― Suzanne Johnson, Elysian Fields

“Saturday, September 17, 2005: Today in New Orleans, a traffic light worked. Someone watered flowers. And anyone with the means to get online could have heard Dr. Joy’s voice wafting in the dry wind, a sound of grace, comfort and familiarity here in the saddest and loneliest place in the world.”
Chris Rose, The Times-Picayune”
― Suzanne Johnson, Elysian Fields