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Squeeze Me (Skink #8) QUOTES

Squeeze Me (Skink #8) QUOTES

1 " The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions. "

― Carl Hiaasen , Squeeze Me (Skink #8)

2 " suspicious "

― Carl Hiaasen , Squeeze Me (Skink #8)

3 " His core furnishings were an XBox console, a 60-inch plasma, "

― Carl Hiaasen , Squeeze Me (Skink #8)

4 " The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.’ That’s from Emerson, "

― Carl Hiaasen , Squeeze Me (Skink #8)

5 " She awoke with renewed certainty that Carl Jung was full of shit. "

― Carl Hiaasen , Squeeze Me (Skink #8)

6 " the annual benefit for Psoriatic Gingivitis. "

― Carl Hiaasen , Squeeze Me (Skink #8)

7 " Angie sometimes wondered if they’d still be married had she stuck with those damn yoga classes. God knows she tried. The crowded, windowless studios made her claustrophobic, and that mandatory loop of Eastern chimes was so annoying. Why the fuck couldn’t they play Pearl Jam? “I’m not cut out for this, Dustin,” she’d said after one blazingly sweaty Bikram session. “Serenity is overrated.” He didn’t get angry; that wasn’t his style. Instead he took up with one of the community’s freshly divorced, self-discovering female yoga fanatics that traveled in packs, ever-alert and lithe as meerkats. "

― Carl Hiaasen , Squeeze Me (Skink #8)

8 " Mastodon railed on a while longer, making air quotes with his stubby doll fingers whenever mentioning the name Diego, and thundering that this was exactly the bloodthirsty breed of invader that the White House had been warning the nation about. "

― Carl Hiaasen , Squeeze Me (Skink #8)

9 " This is a show of the shit variety, "

― Carl Hiaasen , Squeeze Me (Skink #8)

10 " He’s got basically the same height and frame as the President,” Christian explained, “so we use him for the trial tan, just to make sure there’s no temperature issues or electrical glitches.” The Knob glanced over at Angie. “Thirteen minutes on my back,” he said with a salacious hitch of an eyebrow. “Easy money, babe. "

― Carl Hiaasen , Squeeze Me (Skink #8)

11 " Angie had been summoned to Casa Bellicosa to unfasten a screech owl from the presidential pompadour, which the low-swooping raptor had mistaken for a road-kill fox. When Angie arrived, the commander-in-chief was lurching madly around the helipad, bellowing and clawing at the Velcro skull patch into which the confused bird had embedded its talons. "

― Carl Hiaasen , Squeeze Me (Skink #8)

12 " The nation was under siege by bloodthirsty hordes charging like rabid wolverines across the borders. "

― Carl Hiaasen , Squeeze Me (Skink #8)

13 " The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.’ That’s from Emerson, by the way. "

― Carl Hiaasen , Squeeze Me (Skink #8)

14 " The lead burglar’s name was Uric. His helper was a dull-eyed fuckwit who worked cheap, basically for cigarettes and Yuengling. The helper wished to be called Prince Paladin. "

― Carl Hiaasen , Squeeze Me (Skink #8)

15 " The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions "

― Carl Hiaasen , Squeeze Me (Skink #8)

16 " Barnette Wittlefield met with the commander-in-chief every morning at four-thirty a.m. bringing news of the latest subpoenas along with four bags of Egg McMuffins. "

― Carl Hiaasen , Squeeze Me (Skink #8)

17 " Jerry Crosby didn’t live on the island. He lived miles away on the mainland, in a western municipality that grandly called itself Royal Palm Beach. "

― Carl Hiaasen , Squeeze Me (Skink #8)

18 " Jerry Crosby was looking out a window at the immaculate green yard, where a lawn worker’s leaf blower had caught fire. The worker calmly heaved it in the swimming pool and ambled away. "

― Carl Hiaasen , Squeeze Me (Skink #8)

19 " He was lanky, silver-haired, seasonally Catholic and steeply neo-conservative. It was Kiki Pew’s commiserative coddling that got him through the Obama years, though at times she feared that her excitable spouse might physically succumb from the day-to-day stress of having a black man in the Oval Office. "

― Carl Hiaasen , Squeeze Me (Skink #8)

20 " The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.’ That’s from Emerson, by the way. All I was hoping to do is stretch some goddamn minds. "

― Carl Hiaasen , Squeeze Me (Skink #8)