Frightfully Fortune Quotes

“Years ago, Gertie and Ida Belle had steamrollered the highly religious then-mayor into doing the event by pitching it as an alternative festival for warding off evil rather than a celebration of it. It was so popular that it became a regular event, much to the dismay of Ida Belle and Gertie’s archrival, Celia Arceneaux, who had protested it from the start. Celia dressed up as Rose Kennedy every year, thinking that inserting a famous Catholic in the mix somehow gave it decorum. I’d bet no one under the age of forty even knew who Rose Kennedy was”
― Jana Deleon, Frightfully Fortune

“into some odd business concerning Gilbert Forrest.”
― Jana Deleon, Frightfully Fortune

“What is it about food that’s bad for you that makes you feel so good?” I asked. “And why can’t I feel this way about lettuce?”
― Jana Deleon, Frightfully Fortune

“Good Lord, if you denied sinners a funeral service in the church, there wouldn’t be any,” I said.”
― Jana Deleon, Frightfully Fortune