The Tin Roof Blowdown Quotes

“A category 5 hurricane carries an explosive force several times greater than that of the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.”
― James Lee Burke, The Tin Roof Blowdown

“Psychologists believe there is a form of long-term anxiety that is caused by turmoil in the natal home: the parents fighting, the child being shaken or dropped, someone constantly bursting through the door in a drunken rage.”
― James Lee Burke, The Tin Roof Blowdown

“The springtime of our lives seemed eternal, the coming of fall a mild interlude before flowers bloomed again.”
― James Lee Burke, The Tin Roof Blowdown

“beautiful street in the Western world.”
― James Lee Burke, The Tin Roof Blowdown