November Road Quotes

“With every decision we create a new future. We destroy all other futures.”
― Lou Berney, November Road

“You could do that, she was discovering. Experience an emotion without allowing it to determine your actions. Hear a knock on the door without feeling compelled to open it. The world didn’t end, towers didn’t topple. Life went on.”
― Lou Berney, November Road

“My philosophy is that guilt is an unhealthy habit,” he said. “It’s what other people try to make you feel so you’ll do what they want. But one life is all we ever get, as far as I know. Why give it away?”
― Lou Berney, November Road

“The bellhop at the Monteleone scrambled to open the door for him. “How’s tricks, Mr. Guidry?” “Well, Tommy, I’ll tell you,” Guidry said. “I’m too old to learn any new ones, but the old ones still work just fine.”
― Lou Berney, November Road

“Who needed to tell the future when you could create it yourself?”
― Lou Berney, November Road

“Lo peor de una infancia infeliz: los momentos felices ocasionales, cuando se te permitía ver por un instante la vida que podrías haber tenido.”
― Lou Berney, November Road

“The November Road Playlist “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right”—Bob Dylan “’Round Midnight”—Billy Taylor Trio “Will You Love Me Tomorrow?”—The Shirelles “Follow the Yellow Brick Road” from The Wizard of Oz—Judy Garland “How Can You Lose”—Art Pepper “Night and Day”—Ella Fitzgerald “I Saw Her Standing There”—The Beatles “Jack O’Diamonds”—Ruth Brown “Ring of Fire”—Johnny Cash “Somebody Have Mercy”—Sam Cooke “Something Cool”—June Christy “Prisoner of Love”—James Brown “It’s My Party”—Lesley Gore “Blowin’ in the Wind”—Peter, Paul and Mary “I’m Walkin’”—Fats Domino “You’re Getting to Be a Habit with Me”—Frank Sinatra “’Round Midnight”—Thelonious Monk”
― Lou Berney, November Road

“Barone picked the lock. The chain was latched, but he carried a rubber band in his wallet. He reached inside and looped one end of the rubber band over the door handle, the other end over the button at the end of the chain. Turn the handle. That easy. The chain slid down the notch and dropped free.”
― Lou Berney, November Road

“The only poor decision was a decision you allowed someone else to make for you.”
― Lou Berney, November Road

“If it’s a fair fight, Barone learned early on, you’ve screwed up somewhere.”
― Lou Berney, November Road

“The Negroes thought that Jack Kennedy loved them. Hate to break the news, Chick, but Jack Kennedy was like every smart cat: He loved himself and himself only.”
― Lou Berney, November Road

“It was two o’clock in the afternoon, or what residents of the French Quarter called the crack of dawn.”
― Lou Berney, November Road