" Oleander will kill you quickly. Azaleas, ingested, take a few hours. Vomiting, paralysis, seizures, coma, death. Then there's savin, henbane, foxglove, jimsonweed...all here in Pico Mundo."

"And we call her Mother Nature."

"There's nothing fatherly about time and what it does to us, either," Ozzie said. "

― Dean Koontz , Forever Odd (Odd Thomas, #2)