The Bayou Quotes

“They say the devil comes dressed as everything you've ever dreamed of. I never really imagined what it meant until I met you.'
'Should I be flattered?'
'I don't think it's a compliment.”
― Arden Powell, The Bayou

“They paused on the threshold and Johnny turned to him, his gaze searching. He looked less like the devil then, his eyes wide and earnest, but Milton wrote that Lucifer knew how to cry.”
― Arden Powell, The Bayou

“Louisiana summers? I’d have thought you’d be used to the heat.” “You never really get used to it,” Nancy said.”
― Arden Powell, The Bayou

“He looked less like the devil then, his eyes wide and earnest, but Milton wrote that Lucifer knew how to cry.”
― Arden Powell, The Bayou

“Hell has no claim on me, but if it did, it wouldn’t be on account of who I take to bed. There are plenty of more important sins to choose from if they want to drag me down to the fire and brimstone.”
― Arden Powell, The Bayou

“Walker and Monnet turned up a few months later, as if somebody needed to fill the gap that Bonnie and Clyde had left. Like America needed somebody to mythologize, then tear to shreds.”
― Arden Powell, The Bayou

“The devil is just the word you give to humanity's darker impulses. You've seen the devil, but it was never me. And it's not you, either.”
― Arden Powell, The Bayou

“Eugene slowly lifted his gaze from his shoes. He would only die if someone tried to play the hero. It had been such a long summer, the sun so bleak and unforgiving, and at the end of such a wearying decade. He prayed there were no heroes left.”
― Arden Powell, The Bayou

“Your heart's beating so fast,' Johny murmured against his mouth. 'What are you afraid of?'
Eugene bit Johny's lip and tugged, just to feel the stretch of Johny's smile against his skin. He'd told Angelique that he wasn't scared of Johny, but what he'd meant was that he wasn't any more scared of him than he was of anything else. 'Everything.'
'You can be afraid later.”
― Arden Powell, The Bayou

“Your heart's beating so fast,' Johny murmured against his mouth. 'What are you afraid of?'
Eugene bit Johny's lip and tugged, just to feel the stretch of Johny's smile against his skin. He'd told Angelique that the wasn't scared of Johny, but what he'd meant was that he wasn't any more scared of him than he was of anything else. 'Everything.'
'You can be afraid later.”
― Arden Powell, The Bayou

“There was something about him that exuded the quiet air of a predator in wait, cold-blooded and basking in the sun, his animal eyes fixed on Mary Beth—who never seemed concerned in the slightest.”
― Arden Powell, The Bayou

“They sometimes found company in each other, two shipwrecked souls drifting side by side, but never for very long.”
― Arden Powell, The Bayou

“There was something almost preternatural about the way their luck ran, like they had God or the devil on their side. They had a wildness about them, something beyond the guns and the way they laughed in the sweltering heat, their teeth white like animals’.”
― Arden Powell, The Bayou