“Sometimes you're going to be faced with situations where the line isn't clear between what's right and what's wrong.Your heart will tell you to do one thing and your brain will tell you to do something different. In the end, all that's left is to look at both sides and go with your best judgment.”
― Carl Hiaasen, quote from Hoot
“Roy remembered the time he and his father had a talk about fighting. 'It's important to stand up for what's right,' Mr. Eberhardt had said, 'but sometimes there's a fine line between courage and stupidity.”
― Carl Hiaasen, quote from Hoot
“Disney world is an armpit,compared to Montana!!”
― Carl Hiaasen, quote from Hoot
“Just because something was legal didn't automatically make it right.”
― Carl Hiaasen, quote from Hoot
“Officer Delinko thought the bald man must have a good sense of humor to go by such a nickname, but he was wrong. Curly was cranky and unsmiling.”
― Carl Hiaasen, quote from Hoot
“Garrett said, “Dude, here’s the killer—Dana told ’em he was you!” “Oh, nice.” “What a butthead, huh?” “And they probably believed him,” Roy said. “Not even for a minute.” “Was he alone?” Roy asked. “Anybody else get arrested?” Anybody like Beatrice Leep’s stepbrother? he wanted to say. “Nope. Just him,” Garrett said, “and guess what—he’s got a record!” “A record?” “A rap sheet, dude. Dana’s been busted before, is what the cops told my mom.” Again, Roy wasn’t exactly shocked by the news. “Busted for what?” “Shoplifting, breakin’ into Coke machines—stuff like that,” Garrett said. “One time he even knocked down a lady and swiped her purse. Mom made me promise not to tell. It’s supposed to be a secret, since Dana’s still a minor.”
― Carl Hiaasen, quote from Hoot
“Dessert was an over baked chocolate chip cookies the size of a hockey puck and just about as tasty.”
― Carl Hiaasen, quote from Hoot
“The classroom fell quiet, a long heavy silence that roared in Roy's ears like a train.”
― Carl Hiaasen, quote from Hoot
“He paused and manufactured a chuckle.”
― Carl Hiaasen, quote from Hoot
“The vandals didn’t stand a chance against five hundred–odd pounds of badass dog flesh. They”
― Carl Hiaasen, quote from Hoot
“Guess I’ll have to come back another day and try again, Roy thought. That’s what a real Florida boy would do.”
― Carl Hiaasen, quote from Hoot
Carl Hiaasen
Born place: in Miami, Florida
Born date March 12, 1953
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“I like the way I feel about myself when I'm with him." I say quietly. "Warner thinks I'm strong and smart and capable and he actually values my opinion. He makes me feel like his equal--like I can accomplish just as much as he can, and more. And if I do something incredible, he's not even surprised. He expects it. He doesn't treat me like I'm some fragile little girl who needs to be protected all the time.”
― Tahereh Mafi, quote from Ignite Me
“The whole point of growing up is learning to stay on the laughing side.”
― Lauren Oliver, quote from Before I Fall
“Don’t be scared. Don’t let them see.”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from The Darkest Minds
“To shut your eyes is to guess nothing of blindness. Beneath your world of skies and faces and buildings exists a rawer and older world, a place where surface planes disintegrate and sounds ribbon in shoals through the air. Marie-Laure can sit in an attic high above the street and hear lilies rustling in marshes two miles away. She hears Americans scurry across farm fields, directing their huge cannons at the smoke of Saint-Malo; she hears families sniffling around hurricane lamps in cellars, crows hopping from pile to pile, flies landing on corpses in ditches; she hears the tamarinds shiver and the jays shriek and the dune grass burn; she feels the great granite fist, sunk deep into the earth’s crust, on which Saint-Malo sits, and the ocean teething at it from all four sides, and the outer islands holding steady against the swirling tides; she hears cows drink from stone troughs and dolphins rise through the green water of the Channel; she hears the bones of dead whales stir five leagues below, their marrow offering a century of food for cities of creatures who will live their whole lives and never once see a photon sent from the sun. She hears her snails in the grotto drag their bodies over the rocks.”
― Anthony Doerr, quote from All the Light We Cannot See
“Maybe those sorts of yes-or-no life-and-death decisions are easier to make because they are so black and white. I can cope with them because it's easier. Human emotions, well. . .they're just a fathomless collection of grays and I don't do so well on the midtones.”
― Jasper Fforde, quote from The Eyre Affair
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