"She taught me everything I knew about crawfish and kissing and pink wine and poetry. She made me different."
-John Green
"But the reasons against going to New Orleans—that spicy southern city known for jazz and Mardi Gras and hospitality—were the very reasons we had to go."
-Howard Shultz, Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life Without Losing Its Soul
"… a full moon shimmered over central Louisiana. This was no rinky-dink moon. This was a moon you had to curtsy to. A big, heavy, mysterious, beautiful, bossy moon. The kind you want to serve things to on a silver platter."
-Rebecca Wells, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
