“Per aspera ad astra, Papa,' I whispered. Through hardship to the stars.”

“War had bled color from everything, leaving nothing but a storm of gray.”

“New Orleans is unlike any city in America. Its cultural diversity is woven into the food, the music, the architecture - even the local superstitions. It's a sensory experience on all levels...”

“Killers aren't always assassins. Sometimes, they don't even have blood on their hands.”

“I became good at pretending. I became so good that after a while the lines blurred between my truth and fiction. And sometimes, when I did a really good job of pretending, I even fooled myse...”

“How foolish to believe we are more powerful than the sea or the sky.”