Hatchet Quotes

“And that was like twenty years ago and you still hate him.”
“So?” He pops up a cucumber slice into his mouth.
“So don’t you think maybe it’s time to bury the hatchet?”
“Can I bury it in his skull?”
― Elle Kennedy, The Risk

“I nurtured my dinomania with documentaries, delighted in the dino-themed B movies I brought home from the video store, and tore up my grandparents' backyard in my search of a perfect Triceratops nest. Never mind that the classic three-horned dinosaur never roamed central New Jersey, or that the few dinosaur fossils found in the state were mostly scraps of skeletons that had been washed out into the Cretaceous Atlantic. My fossil hunter's intuition told me there just had to be a dinosaur underneath the topsoil, and I kept excavating my pit. That is, until I got the hatchet out of my grandfather's toolshed and tried to cut down a sapling that was in my way. My parents bolted out of the house and put a stop to my excavation. Apparently, I hadn't filled out the proper permits before I started my dig.”
― Brian Switek, My Beloved Brontosaurus: On the Road with Old Bones, New Science, and Our Favorite Dinosaurs

“Seriously, man. How did you fuck up this bad?"
Atticus's eyes bulged behind his glasses, his face contorting. "My fucking gun jammed. I had to improvise."
Adam gaped at him. "And your first thought was a hatchet?"
Atticus snorted, his voice full of derision when he said "It's a meat cleaver, you miscreant.”
― Onley James, Unhinged

“He learned the most important rule of survival, which was that feeling sorry for yourself didn't work. It wasn't tHe learned the most important rule of survival, which was that feeling sorry for yourself didn't work. It wasn't just that it was wrong to do, or that it was considered incorrect. It was more than that.- it didn't work. When is sad alone in the darkness and cried and was done, all done with it, nothing has changed. His leg still hurt, it was still dark, he was still alone, and the self pity had accomplished nothing. - From Hatchet”
― Gary Paulson