Top 47 Bayou Quotes
#1. She saw night lights in the rooms of the babies who dreamed soft seersucker dreams, drugged happy with the heat, their pink baby bodies curled against worn out cotton, not fearing Hitler yet, their strong, tiny hearts beating in unison with the trees and the creeks and the bayou
Rebecca Wells
#3. Okay, so how does this work exactly?" I ask as we walk toward his car. "Do we float down the bayou in rowboat while little critters sing 'Kiss the Girl'.
Colleen Hoover
#4. I don't like coming over here at night, the girl said. The bayou is scary in the dark, all manner of things running wild out there.
Samuel Snoek-Brown
#5. case with Cocodrie Bayou, which Solomon must have heard with a starting "p." Here is a list
Solomon Northup
#6. He wavin' at you, Dave. Hey, it's that drunk man done fell in the bayou the ot'er night. That man must surely love water.
James Lee Burke
#7. My voice had bayou gut them slipping out of their story like a bookmark forgotten by a reader between the pages
Cornelia Funke
#8. Hey, my brother," Eli said, sounding friendly and casual. "Let's chat about this first, before I hafta kill you and then figure out where to bury the body. Though I'm thinking out in a bayou, somewhere close to gators, you dig?
Faith Hunter
#9. When you get into Louisiana, it really is like a different country in a lot of ways. The plants you see are a little different, like the weeping willows and the cypress trees that come up out of the bayou. And it's steamy hot.
Sam Trammell
#10. I just started calling myself 'Swamp A-.' Like, I have swamp a- right now. I had major swamp a- because I was wearing these Spanx to hold in my gut ... It's like the bayou up in that region.
Jessica Simpson
#11. They came like specters from the dark maw of the bayou, first ghostly light in the fog, then the rasp of a motor: an aluminum powerboat scudding across lacquer-black water.
Tom Cooper
#12. Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans. When that's where you left your heart. The moonlight on the bayou a creole tune that fills the air. I dream about magnolias in bloom and I'm wishin' I was there.
Louis Armstrong
#13. Are you going to sit down?" Ida Belle asked. "Or am I supposed to drive down the bayou with you up there looking like a Jackie Chan hood ornament?
Jana Deleon
#14. The air smelled like Bayou Teche when it's spring and the fish are spawning among the water hyacinths and the frogs are throbbing in the cattails and the flooded cypress.
James Lee Burke
#15. The bayou came out in her voice more than it ever had before, and it sounded like an invitation to spend the night floating down a lazy canal together under the starlit night.
Christine Feehan
#16. What a voice. Deep, throaty, but not in a sexy way. In a haunted way. A voice full of heartbreak and ghosts.
I won't go back, I won't go home,
'Cause in this place, the dead still roam,
'Cause this time, Whiskey Bayou won't let me go.
Susannah Sandlin
#17. Nor must Uncle Sam's Web-feet be forgotten. At all the watery margins they have been present. Not only on the deep sea, the broadbay, and the rapid river, but also up the narrow muddy bayou, and wherever the ground was a little damp, they have been, and made their tracks.
Abraham Lincoln
#18. I have always wanted to see what the vibe was like and I was right It's on the Vermillion Bayou.
Shelby Lynne
#19. And each one of them has a redemptive message. Blood Bayou's redemptive message is (about forgiveness). Can you forgive somebody? Can you come back (from the hurt)? (Can you find_ your way back from it. Can people change and can you forgive somebody?
Drew Waters
#21. Silicon Bayou - aka Lafayette, LA - is the best kept secret reservoir of innovation mojo in America
Todd Park
#22. The opening novel of the 'Bayou Trilogy' was the first one I finished.
Daniel Woodrell
#23. I wouldn't put it past you," Kaldar said. "Or him. Who knows what the hell he might do?"
William made a cutting motion across his throat.
"He might kill you if you're not careful," she told him.
"Who, Will? We're the best of friends."
William rolled his eyes.
Ilona Andrews
#24. You say the sweetest things. And that spaghetti perfume you're wearing is to die for. No hobo could resist.
She snarled. Heh.
Ilona Andrews
#25. How 'bout you, Jena?" He leaned closer, speaking in an exaggerated whisper. "We could go somewhere private. I know you probably got some scars from being shot, but you can't see a scar in the dark, right?"
The dickwad was offering her a pity fuck in a darkened room?
Susannah Sandlin
#26. She struggled with all her might, but he was much too heavy and strong.
With a sigh, Amelia finally said, "You win. How can I defend myself in a situation like this?"
"That's a good question."
With a satisfied grin, he got to his feet and said, "I'll show you.
Linda Weaver Clarke
#27. Slowly the reality of the situation sank in. He got his ass kicked, learned nothing, and got saved by a dumb dog and an old lady. If he lived long enough to report to Nancy back in Adrianglia, he would have to gloss over this part.
Ilona Andrews
#28. Fuck easy, Ceri. If you love him, fight for him. Nothing worth keeping is free in this world.
Ilona Andrews
#29. I'm not worried about my father. If anybody understands taking a woman captive to ensure keeping her - he does. You can't grow up in a family like mine and not be a stalker. When we love, we obsess. We love like crazy until it gets in our bones, fucks with our minds, and takes over our soul.
Suzanne Steele
#30. She surveyed the carnage behind him. "Did you have fun?"
He showed her his teeth. "Yes.
Ilona Andrews
#31. It could be worse," he said finally. "Efrenia married an arsonist. Jake's wife is a kleptomaniac. I suppose, a psychopathic spree killer isn't that odd of a choice, considering.
Ilona Andrews
#32. Amelia? Let's make sure we set some time aside every day for one another. We shouldn't bring our work home with us. Okay?"
She smiled. "Deal!
Linda Weaver Clarke
#33. He had the prettiest hair she had ever seen on a man: dark brown, almost black, and soft like sable, it fell down to his shoulders. She wondered what he'd do if she threw some mud in it. Probably kill her.
Ilona Andrews
#34. She put her hand on her hip. "Where are you going?"
"To the boat. You called me Lord Bill again. That means we're cool."
Cerise slapped her forehead with the heel of her hand and followed him.
Ilona Andrews
#35. Jena shook her head. "Paul needs a life."
"Paul needs a woman," Ceelie said.
Susannah Sandlin
#36. Failure happened. The trick was to accept the risk and try anyway.
Ilona Andrews
#37. I realized that I'm a child."
William looked point-blank at her chest. "No.
Ilona Andrews
#38. We have unfinished personal business I do believe." He smiled. "And I do love to make you blush."
"It clashes with my hair.
Susannah Sandlin
#39. I see you've got an unwanted visitor." He walked to stand beside Doris just as she poked at the gator with the table leg and caused it to hiss and back up again. "Ma'am, would you please not poke the gator anymore? Hissing is his way of telling you he doesn't much like that.
Susannah Sandlin
#40. Life was too short and ended too suddenly. If you didn't take advantage of what you had today, tomorrow it might be ripped from you.
Ilona Andrews
#41. Oh, Gods."
His eyes shone with want and predatory satisfaction. "The name's William. It's a common mistake.
Ilona Andrews
#42. It depends. If I don't let you in, will you huff and puff and blow my house down?"
She had no idea. "I'm more of a kick the door open and cut everyone inside to ribbons kind of wolf.
Ilona Andrews
#43. You don't like to talk to people, do you? I mean, slamming the door in my face was a clue that was hard to miss. I'm perceptive like that.
Susannah Sandlin
#44. Some women waited for a night in shining armor. She, apparently, had ended up with a knight in black jeans and leather, who wanted to chase her down and have his evil way with her.
Ilona Andrews
#45. You call that evening the odds? You demolished them."
Demolished. He liked that. "I left you one."
"I noticed."
"I promised to share," he told her. "Manners are very important in the Weird. Lying would be quite impolite.
Ilona Andrews
#46. William glanced at her sword. His upper lip rose, showing her his teeth. My, my, Lord Bill, what big fangs you have. That was all right. She wasn't Red Riding Hood, she wasn't scared, and her grandmother could curse his ass so hard, he wouldn't know which way was up for a week.
Ilona Andrews
#47. Morning, ma'am. I'm looking for Tommy Mason. Is he around?" Polite and professional, that was Senior Agent Broussard.
"Lord, what's that no-good sonofabitch done now? Wait, you ain't a cop; you're a game warden. "What'd he do, run over a fish?
Susannah Sandlin
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