“Mickey Cray had been out of work ever since a dead iguana fell from a palm tree and hit him on the head.”
― Carl Hiaasen, quote from Chomp
“Actually it was the mark of the stupid, which is what you get for sitting under a tree during a thunderstorm.”
― Carl Hiaasen, quote from Chomp
“In his own mind, it was never a matter of courage. But courage it was.”
― Carl Hiaasen, quote from Chomp
“The other day, one of the big shots was trying to say ‘Nice shoes!’ and he accidentally told a government minister that his face looked like a butt wart. Not good.”
― Carl Hiaasen, quote from Chomp
“Whatever happens, I’m glad we ate that bleeping lizard.”
― Carl Hiaasen, quote from Chomp
“Watching the cab speed off, Wahoo’s father looked forlorn. “It’s like she’s leaving us twice,” he remarked. “What are you talking about, Pop?” “I’m seein’ double, remember? There she goes—and there she goes again.”
― Carl Hiaasen, quote from Chomp
“Mickey Cray was surprised to learn that Derek Badger didn’t want any of his captive critters on location. Mickey had never wrangled for a nature show that used only wild animals, nor had he ever encountered a person less qualified than Derek to handle untamed specimens.”
― Carl Hiaasen, quote from Chomp
“Wahoo's father had absolutely no use for creeps who beat on small animals, especially kids.”
― Carl Hiaasen, quote from Chomp
“you would not want to mask your own feelings, pretending to feel different from how you really feel. For pretending in this way does nothing to change your vibrational point of attraction. The only way you can do so is to change your vibrational offering, and when you do change your vibrational offering, the way you feel changes, too.”
― Esther Hicks, quote from Ask and It Is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires
“Wow! I can hardly believe I finished Beyonders.”
― Brandon Mull, quote from Chasing the Prophecy
“You kept your cool. You waited for your opportunity. You pretended to the point of acceptance and trust. You’re risking your life right now to go back for that girl. You are innocent, And it’s why you’re still alive.”
― J.A. Redmerski, quote from Killing Sarai
“That in some way he could work the fat off his soul the way a fighter went into the mountains to work and train in order to burn it out of his body”
― Ernest Hemingway, quote from The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories
“The city breathing, burning, living the life thy had preserved. Ten million lives and more. If something should happen to all that life- how terrible! Nita gulped for control as she remembered Fred's word of just this morning, an eternity ago. And this was what being a wizard was about. Keeping terrible things from happening, even when it hurts. Not just power, or control of what ordinary people couldn't control, or delight in being able to make strange things happen. Those were the side effects- not the reason, the purpose.”
― Diane Duane, quote from So You Want to Be a Wizard
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