Say Hello to My Little Friend Quotes

“The wedding planner reminds you often that you can plan it all you want, but you can't control other people, especially when they have plans of their own.”
― Jennine Capo Crucet, Say Hello to My Little Friend

“(Can a whale and a man fall in love? Of course! There's a whole other book about exactly that-- a crazy, obsessive kind of love, more or less-- another big book Izzy's never read, but why would he? It's super long and besides, he was never that book's intended audience. That book might have a lot going for it to some, but it never imagined a guy like Izzy reading it. The proof: look at that title. Like Izzy would ever in this lifetime risk walking down a Miami high school hallway holding some fat book about dick.)”
― Jennine Capo Crucet, Say Hello to My Little Friend

“I want to believe I've made my peace with the immense failure that my kind of success rests upon.”
― Jennine Capó Crucet, Say Hello to My Little Friend

“- The point is, the universe sent her that dog to give her something to distract her. The universe wanted her to have him. Does it really matter how it happened if the end is the same?
- Danny is looking right at him again. He thinks the answer is yes, it matters. It matters how what we might love is lost or found. How could it not matter? It's the difference between a blessing and a curse. If it didn't matter what happened, if it didn't matter which version of events was true, then what is Izzy even doing there? Not just on this boat, but here in this city, in this country instead of the one where he was born?”
― Jennine Capó Crucet, Say Hello to My Little Friend

“The wall is full of photos only from the wedding, as if nothing else in their lives had ever happened to them.”
― Jennine Capó Crucet, Say Hello to My Little Friend

“You could say she's left anyone watching to wonder - even marvel - at all that she could be, if given the space. Or better still: if the tank didn't exist to begin with.”
― Jennine Capó Crucet, Say Hello to My Little Friend

“... and the girl is so desperate for his attention that her face is basically doing an impression of a pit bull on death row at a shelter trying to get herself adopted.”
― Jennine Capó Crucet, Say Hello to My Little Friend

“It's the orca who've adapted to compensate for the inability of the trainers.”
― Jennine Capó Crucet, Say Hello to My Little Friend

“What's more entertaining: pushing a beach ball around a tank, or training someone to repeatedly climb over bleacher steps to fetch said ball and bring it back?”
― Jennine Capó Crucet, Say Hello to My Little Friend

“A staff member spent their afternoon covering the bathroom's floor in a foot of straw as if that would keep the delicate yet mighty flamingo from absolutely losing its shit, when what really kept each of them calm were the mirrors: as storms hit, they gazed at themselves for hours on end, huddling up against the sinks en masse, vying to get closer to the glass, like chongas in a club's bathroom wrestling for the vantage point form which they could best reapply their lip liner.”
― Jennine Capó Crucet, Say Hello to My Little Friend

“She cannot imagine subjecting a new life to the life she's endured - is still enduring. And because she cannot imagine this, she knows herself capable of maternal love - the love of wanting better for your own, of protecting your own from what you were made to endure.”
― Jennine Capó Crucet, Say Hello to My Little Friend

“Though the bus was anything but quiet, what with the other chaperones refusing to do their jobs in favor of ingratiating themselves to their child's friends.”
― Jennine Capó Crucet, Say Hello to My Little Friend

“The first one, the one not named Rudy, works at Pembroke Lakes Mall all the way up in Broward, at the T-Mobile stand right near the food court. It would be a better sign if he worked for Verizon or AT&T, but whatever, dude's got to start somewhere, right? Irregardless of any cease and desist letter, you can't just start off as Mr. Worldwide, not without first spending some time as Mr. 305.”
― Jennine Capó Crucet, Say Hello to My Little Friend