Trouble in Mudbug Quotes

“To my husband, Harold, I leave the Lower Bayou Motel. You’ve spent so many nights there with other women that I felt you should call the place home. It’s been operating in the red for the last eight years, owes back taxes since 1986, and is covered with deadly asbestos. Nothing but the best for you, dear.”
― Jana Deleon, Trouble in Mudbug

“I still can’t believe she’s gone,” Maryse Robicheaux murmured as she stared down at the woman in the coffin. Of course, the pink suit was a dead giveaway—so to speak—that the wearer was no longer with them. For the miserable two years and thirty-two days she’d had to deal with her mother-in-law, Maryse had never once seen her wear a color other than black. Now she sorta resembled the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man dressed in Pepto-Bismol.”
― Jana Deleon, Trouble in Mudbug

“Justice is a very powerful emotion. It sometimes overrides even death.”
― Jana Deleon, Trouble in Mudbug

“do you have any idea how uncomfortable it is to have the whole damned EPA up your ass? Because that’s what I have right now, and according to my wife, I’ve never had much ass, so it’s getting crowded down there and I’m more than a little uncomfortable. You”
― Jana Deleon, Trouble in Mudbug

“Now she sorta resembled the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man dressed in Pepto-Bismol.”
― Jana Deleon, Trouble in Mudbug

“She cried for herself—the life she’d never bothered to live and had almost lost—and the realization that she still had an opportunity to change it all before it was too late.”
― Jana Deleon, Trouble in Mudbug

“Maryse stared. “You hear her, too?” Luc grimaced. “Unfortunately. Why do you think I looked behind you when”
― Jana Deleon, Trouble in Mudbug

“The dead didn’t show up to their own funerals and call people assholes.”
― Jana Deleon, Trouble in Mudbug

“Marshmallow Man dressed in Pepto-Bismol.”
― Jana Deleon, Trouble in Mudbug