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Skin Tight (Mick Stranahan, #1) QUOTES

Skin Tight (Mick Stranahan, #1) QUOTES

1 " Though Madeleine’s face reminded Dr. Graveline in many ways of a camel, he was fond of her. She was the kind of steady patient that offshore trust funds are made of. "

― Carl Hiaasen , Skin Tight (Mick Stranahan, #1)

2 " Coroners made Al Garcia jumpy; they always got so cheery when somebody came up with a fresh way to die. "

― Carl Hiaasen , Skin Tight (Mick Stranahan, #1)

3 " stick together like shit on a shoe. "

― Carl Hiaasen , Skin Tight (Mick Stranahan, #1)

4 " Carla Crumworthy, heiress to the Crumworthy panty-shield fortune. She had come to complain about the collagen injections that Rudy Graveline had administered to give her full, sensual lips, which is just what every rheumatoid seventy-one-year-old woman "

― Carl Hiaasen , Skin Tight (Mick Stranahan, #1)

5 " Since the medical board was made up mostly of other doctors, Rudy Graveline had fully expected exoneration--physicians stick together like shit on a shoe. "

― Carl Hiaasen , Skin Tight (Mick Stranahan, #1)

6 " The board immediately reinstated Rudy's license and sealed all the records from the public and the press--thus honoring the long-held philosophy of Florida's medical establishment that the last persons who need to know about a doctor's incompetence are the patients. "

― Carl Hiaasen , Skin Tight (Mick Stranahan, #1)

7 " Every door and hallway reverberated with the nerve-stabbing whine of high-speed dental drills; soon Stranahan’s molars started to throb, and he began to feel claustrophobic. "

― Carl Hiaasen , Skin Tight (Mick Stranahan, #1)

8 " IMPROVE ONE’S SELF, IMPROVE ONE’S FACE. "

― Carl Hiaasen , Skin Tight (Mick Stranahan, #1)

9 " This is what happens when you put a moron in the intelligence unit: he gets even dumber. "

― Carl Hiaasen , Skin Tight (Mick Stranahan, #1)

10 " This is the worst year of my life, and it’s only the seventeenth of January. "

― Carl Hiaasen , Skin Tight (Mick Stranahan, #1)

11 " ONE of the wondrous things about Florida, Rudy Graveline thought as he chewed on a jumbo shrimp, was the climate of unabashed corruption: There was absolutely no trouble from which money could not extricate you. "

― Carl Hiaasen , Skin Tight (Mick Stranahan, #1)

12 " The man was a hog: a florid, jowly, pug-nosed, rheumy-eyed hog. A cosmetic surgeon’s nightmare. Rudy Graveline couldn’t bear to watch him eat. "

― Carl Hiaasen , Skin Tight (Mick Stranahan, #1)

13 " The phones never stopped ringing. This was because Kipper Garth had shrewdly put up his billboards at the most dangerous traffic intersections in South Florida, so that the second thing every noncomatose accident victim saw (after the Jaws of Life) was Kipper Garth’s phone number in nine-foot red letters: 555-TORT. "

― Carl Hiaasen , Skin Tight (Mick Stranahan, #1)

14 " George Graveline had a motto by which he faithfully lived: Always park in the shade. "

― Carl Hiaasen , Skin Tight (Mick Stranahan, #1)

15 " He said, “My life story is this: I’ve killed five men, and I’ve been married five times.” Christina slowly pulled her hand away. “Which scares you more?” Mick Stranahan said. "

― Carl Hiaasen , Skin Tight (Mick Stranahan, #1)

16 " The final puzzled look on the man’s face suggested that he was not expecting to be gored by a giant stuffed fish head. "

― Carl Hiaasen , Skin Tight (Mick Stranahan, #1)