The Bourbon Thief Quotes

“We tell ourselves lies to survive when we know the truth will kill us.”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Bourbon Thief

“How are you going to get revenge against dead people? Dig ’em up and stake ’em through the heart?”
“I asked myself that same question, and I think I know the answer. You destroy what they loved, and you love what they destroyed.”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Bourbon Thief

“Being happy is the best revenge.”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Bourbon Thief

“There's always more to every story.”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Bourbon Thief

“And bourbon’s like the truth, you know.” “How’s that?” “The first taste burns, but once you get used to it, it’s the only thing you want in your mouth.” Miss”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Bourbon Thief

“We all die. Side effect of being born.”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Bourbon Thief

“The one-drop rule had never made any sense to him. If one drop of black blood made you black, why didn’t one drop of white blood make you white? And hadn’t anyone noticed yet that everybody’s blood was red?”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Bourbon Thief

“Her body was his body. His body was hers. He saw himself through her eyes—older, bigger, beautiful to her in that strange way girls found men beautiful, and knowing things she wanted to know. She envied him his freedom, that he was a man and could do anything he wanted to anyone he wanted, while she had to marry him to escape the prison of her life and the prison of the world’s expectations.”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Bourbon Thief

“Find a way to make pumpkin spice bourbon, and you’ll be a billionaire.”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Bourbon Thief

“He’d learned a long time ago that when the woman in his life was behaving strangely, his best bet was to take his clothes off.”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Bourbon Thief

“A hostage?"
"They used the word slave, but isnt' it the same thing? Isn't that what you'd call it if someone stole me and put me in a house and wouldn't let me leave? Isn't it?”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Bourbon Thief

“You’re a rich white man. Not your fault for assuming the entire world is on your side. It must seem like it most days. Usually you’d be right, but times, Mr. McQueen, are a-changing.” “That sounds like a threat.” “Sounds like Bob Dylan to me.”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Bourbon Thief

“Am I supposed to pretend I don’t know what I look like? Look at you. You look so handsome I can’t even look at you straight on. I have to catch you out of the corner of my eye or I’ll go blind. It’s like looking at an eclipse. I need special glasses.”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Bourbon Thief

“My story. I inherited it.”
“I think I’d rather inherit money than a story.”
“I have that, too, not entirely by my choice.”
“You don’t want to be rich?”
“God favors the poor. But don’t tell rich people that. It’ll hurt their little feelings.”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Bourbon Thief

“All I’m saying is if you’re gonna have a cracker for a daddy, might as well be a Ritz cracker, right?” Levi”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Bourbon Thief

“You need another business? You tired of owning your basketball team already?” “I only own part of the team.” “Which part?” she asked. “I know which part I’d like to own.” McQueen laughed. “Tell me something, Miss Paris—what do you own?” Now it was her turn to spin on her bar stool, ninety degrees, and she met him face on with full eye contact, fearless and shameless. “I could own you by morning.”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Bourbon Thief

“I could own you by morning.” Her”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Bourbon Thief

“Don’t worry about it. I don’t like you, and I still married you.” Tamara gave him the meanest look he’d ever seen on a pretty girl’s face. “Be”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Bourbon Thief

“One less reason for men to be in the world if women could zip their dresses up all alone. “You”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Bourbon Thief

“everyone who knows anything knows the things that can harm you are always the things closest to you. “Hello?”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Bourbon Thief

“I’m tired,” she said. “I want to go home.” Home. Did she even have a home?”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Bourbon Thief

“Sweet tea and bourbon?”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Bourbon Thief

“She left him alone by never speaking unless he spoke to her first, never asking him questions, never extending the conversation, letting it die instead. He”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Bourbon Thief

“A man says things in an excited state that he repents of in his tranquillity.” “You’re”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Bourbon Thief

“Fate. Sounds romantic.”
“You must not know anything about mythology, then, Mr. McQueen. In all the old myths, the Fates were the villains.”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Bourbon Thief

“Ever had Fighting Cock?”
“You talking about the bourbon or some sex position I haven’t tried yet?” Paris asked.”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Bourbon Thief

“Fate was a train that didn't stop until it reached its final destination.”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Bourbon Thief

“She picked a sorrel mare with four white socks named Scarlett. Levi wasn’t about to ride his favorite stallion, Rhett—Tamara would read too much into that—so he saddled Ashley, the one gelding in the stables, instead. “You”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Bourbon Thief

“Bourbon.” “You’re putting bourbon in iced tea?” “Putting bourbon in sweet tea, man. That’s my Truth Serum. You gonna love it.” “Sweet tea and bourbon? Damn, I think I love it already,” Levi said. Bowen”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Bourbon Thief

“I got my forty acres,” Andre said, looking out the back window at his farm. “You go get yours.”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Bourbon Thief