“But always there will be some sort of trouble for him, I think. There is a Creole saying ... he has le coeur comme un artichaud.”
Eddy fumbled for her high school French. “A heart like an artichoke?”
“Oui. He has a leaf for everyone, but makes a meal for no one.”
a couple moreHe had a stoic dread of physical pain born of hard experience: you took what you couldn't avoid, but you didn't ask for more. Zach had learned long ago that if you fought back, they only hurt you worse.
..the second you make yourself vulnerable to someone, they start drawing blood.Yeah, but if a real vampire came along, you'd bare your neck in a second.
The still doesn't have a choice about making liquor; the choice is up to the person who drinks it? Drinking didn't make my parents act like that. They were like that. I'm not.
He found that the idea of committing a federal crime didn't faze him much. The thought of being in love still seemed far stranger.
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