“Within days they'd formed an unholy alliance with a foppish young French vampire in the Garden District who had implausibly golden hair and a streak of ruthlessness as wide as the Mississippi”
“En quelques jours, ils avaient noué une alliance malsaine avec un jeune et élégant vampire français du Garden District aux cheveux blonds improbables, et totalement dénué de scrupules.”
“To befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business & corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.”
“She was one of those golden mulatas that French-speaking Caribbeans call chabines, that my boys call chicas de oro; she had snarled, apocalyptic hair, copper eyes, and was one whiteskinned relative away from jaba.”
“The distance between taking social action and having the knowledge is as wide as the mouth of the Mississippi.”
“to marry into a cloakroom, and form an alliance with a parcel”