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Times are not good here. The city is crumbling into ashes. It has been buried under taxes and frauds and maladministrati — Lafcadio Hearn, Inventing New Orleans: Writings of Lafcadio Hearn
I hope that the kind reader recognises this as a despairing attempt at humour. — Nancy Springer
The wild notes of tuba and trumpet and trombone rattled and hummed through the trees. In the first group of musicians, t — Hunter Murphy, Imogene in New Orleans
He turned around to see the bass drum popping and the horn sections pointing their instruments to the balconies and send — Hunter Murphy, Imogene in New Orleans
A good crowd had formed along the sidewalk and the concrete ledge that bordered Louis Armstrong Park. The anticipation w — Hunter Murphy, Imogene in New Orleans
Such is the great nature of man, it resides the true face beneath a glittering masquerade. — K. Hari Kumar, That Frequent Visitor
No matter how deeply you come to know a place, you can keep coming back to know it more. — Rebecca Solnit, Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas
The only way he could truly stick out in New Orleans was if he were walking down the street on fire. — Hunter Murphy, Imogene in New Orleans
The morning sun in New Orleans felt like it was trying to make a point, convincing the old world to believe something ne — Hunter Murphy, Imogene in New Orleans
Just as the Mediterranean separated France from the country Algiers, so did the Mississippi separate New Orleans proper — Hunter Murphy, Imogene in New Orleans
Enormous oak trees towered over the boulevard, which boasted homes with fine woodwork, wraparound porches, and moss on t — Hunter Murphy, Imogene in New Orleans
The river breeze washed over him. He saw the magnificent views of the city and the bridge connecting Algiers Point to Ne — Hunter Murphy, Imogene in New Orleans
The only way he could truly stick out in New Orleans was if he were walking down the street on fire. A businessman in su — Hunter Murphy, Imogene in New Orleans
There was a warm breeze blowing in the car as they passed the mansions in the Garden District and they could smell the s — Hunter Murphy, Imogene in New Orleans
Toulouse Street ran one way toward the Mississippi River. Jackson looked over [Imogene's] head into one of those famous — Hunter Murphy, Imogene in New Orleans
Buddy ran down the road, turned into another street, and vanished as if he had never been there, like another ghost from — Hunter Murphy, Imogene in New Orleans
Well, yeah, you listen to a talking snake and there's gonna be trouble. — Mike Mignola, Hellboy: Into the Silent Sea
I pull back, gasping for breath. Reeling. His breath is ragged, and I place my hands on his cheeks to steady him. "Is th — Stephanie Perkins, Lola and the Boy Next Door
You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain. — Christopher Nolan, The Dark Knight
Every town has ‘THAT house’: the one that once held dark secrets. You know the house… the one no one will purchase? The — James Caskey, The Haunted History of New Orleans: Ghosts of the French Quarter