New Orleans Confidential Quotes

“Like most New Orleans mothers, she cooked red beans and rice every Monday, the traditional wash day after the weekend. While she washed the clothes, the beans would simmer all day until supper. The”
― O'Neil de Noux, New Orleans Confidential

“An old French saying that goes, ‘The heart has reasons of which reason knows nothing’.”
― O'Neil de Noux, New Orleans Confidential

“When someone doesn’t have a recognizable accent, they’re usually from where you’re from.”
― O'Neil de Noux, New Orleans Confidential

“Both sides of my family have been laborers forever, even after emigrating to Louisiana long before Washington and Jefferson started their little revolution.”
― O'Neil de Noux, New Orleans Confidential

“I prayed to St. Anthony all last night, but I still can’t find her.” She pronounced Anthony the old New Orleans way, “Ant–nee.”
― O'Neil de Noux, New Orleans Confidential

“back down to the bottom step and sit on the edge of the stoop, a time-worn New Orleans tradition, the way to pass the evening, sitting out on the front stoop.”
― O'Neil de Noux, New Orleans Confidential