Alligator Bayou Quotes

"Francesco! Remember five years ago? […] They lynched seven Negroes right on Depot Street. A white man started it, but no one asked who shot first. Don't do anything stupid!" (2.9)

Everyone digs in. We eat long, flat pasta—pappardelle. The same as most nights. They're the easiest shapes to cut.Carlo does all the cooking. In a way he's the one who really makes us a family, '...

Francesco's face goes purple. "If I let Willy Rogers get away with insulting us here, at our home, the next thing you know he'll do it in public. We'll lose customers." (2.17)

"Shhh," Cirone says, even though we weren't talking. "They hear Sicilian and they'll chase us off."I don't get why people here don't like Sicilian. Our family supplies this town, Tallulah, with the...

"Thank the Lord." Carlo closes his eyes. He makes the sign of the cross and ends with prayer hands shaking toward the ceiling. When he opens his eyes again, they're wet and bright. "I'm counting on...

But this flat meadow couldn't be more different from those hillside caves; this sleepy Louisiana town couldn't be more different from busy Cefalu […]. (1.3)

"A foolish boy could take a warning shot the wrong way. He could shoot back—and aim.""Bah!" Francesco opens the door. (2.36-37)

A giant cat comes out of the woods. Tawny brown sleeks his back and white flecks his head and shoulders. […] He flicks the tip of his long tail and I think I might wet myself. That cat weighs mor...