"And when I raised myself to look at the man who'd spoken, I had a feeling of leaving my misery behind me there on the stone wall."

“I am not second-guessing or questioning my understanding of the issue”

Source : "A Mother's Denial, a Daughter's Death" by Charles Ornstein and Daniel Costello, articles.latimes.com. September 24, 2005.

“Sunset on the water ought to be a quiet and easy time, but I guess some people can't stand a little silence.”

Source : Carl Hiaasen (2014). “Carl Hiaasen Collection: Hoot, Flush, Scat, Chomp”, p.204, Knopf Books for Young Readers

“I don't think that anybody should be suspended for life for anything, other than murder. How is it helping someone to say, 'You're done forever, your life's over'?”

“What is this, a Hybrid? You guys must be proud of yourselves.”

“Thinking which displaces, or otherwise defines, the sacred has been called atheistic, and that philosophy which does not place it here or there, like a thing, but at the joining of things and words, will always be exposed to this reproach without ever being touched by it.”

“Sienna shrugged, apparently unconcerned by what the warrior had said. "You'll have to forgive me for now noticing you back then. Next to him, you're kind of homely." William chocked on his own tongue.”

“I haven't heard from Elvis since his daughter married Michael Jackson. I think it killed him.”

“Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!”