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Stormy Weather (Skink #3) QUOTES

Stormy Weather (Skink #3) QUOTES

1 " The gunshots awakened Mr. Ullman, a banker by trade and a recent arrival from Copenhagen, who looked out the bedroom window just in time to see a tremendous bull galloping across his yard with a thrashing young American impaled on its rack. Mr. Ullman quickly telephoned the police and informed them, as urgently as his newly-acquired English would allow, that an 'unlucky cowboy is being perforated seriously. "

― Carl Hiaasen , Stormy Weather (Skink #3)

2 " Late on the night of August 27, with a warm breeze at his back and nine cold Budweisers in his belly, Keith Higstrom decided to go hunting. His friends declined to accompany him, as Keith was as clumsy and unreliable a shooter as he was a drunk. "

― Carl Hiaasen , Stormy Weather (Skink #3)

3 " Aldous Huxley. ‘Being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune.’ You think about that. "

― Carl Hiaasen , Stormy Weather (Skink #3)

4 " The answer is, nothing's going to happen to you. The friend who called, he put in a good word.'
'Oh, yeah?'
'Jail will not make an impression on this woman. Don't waste your time.' That's a quote. "

― Carl Hiaasen , Stormy Weather (Skink #3)

5 " This is not a well person. This is a man who put a shock collar on your husband, a man who gets high off frog slime. He's done things you don't want to know about, probably even killed people.'
'At least he believes in something. "

― Carl Hiaasen , Stormy Weather (Skink #3)

6 " The corruption investigation wasn’t derailed, merely reassigned. Nevertheless, Avila was convinced that the santería spell was a success. "

― Carl Hiaasen , Stormy Weather (Skink #3)

7 " Jim Tile was questioning Augustine about the skulls on the wall. “Cuban voodoo? "

― Carl Hiaasen , Stormy Weather (Skink #3)