Heaven's Prisoners Quotes

Heaven's Prisoners Quotes

"Why did you lie back there?" Annie said.
"I'm not sure."
"Dave..."
"She's probably an illegal. Why make problems for the nuns?"
"So what if she's an illegal?"
"Because I don't trust government pencil pushers and paper shufflers, that's why."
"I think I hear the voice of the New Orleans police department."
"Annie, immigration sends them back."
"They wouldn't do that to a child, would they?"
I didn't have an answer for her. But my father, who had been a fisherman, trapper, and derrickman all his life, and who couldn't read or write and spoke Cajun French and a form of English that was hardly a language, had an axiom for almost every situation. One of these would translate as "When in doubt, do nothing." In actuality he would say something like (in this case to a wealthy sugar planter who owned property next to us), "You didn't told me about your hog in my cane, no, so...
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