Fever Beach Quotes

“It was encouraging. Twilly felt that way whenever he crossed paths with a potentially intelligent person. Perhaps she was even registered to vote.”
― Carl Hiaasen, Fever Beach: A Novel

“A loosening of laws had made Florida second only to Texas in the push to make firearms more readily available to the impaired, incompetent, and unstable.”
― Carl Hiaasen, Fever Beach: A Novel

“She’d been entertaining Twilly with the story of her bachelorette party in Nashville”
― Carl Hiaasen, Fever Beach: A Novel

“now.” Jackie was looking too closely at his face. She said,”
― Carl Hiaasen, Fever Beach: A Novel

“His new nose definitely presented the gooseflesh surface of a ball sack.”
― Carl Hiaasen, Fever Beach: A Novel

“deliquesced”
― Carl Hiaasen, Fever Beach: A Novel

“He was tall and long-necked, with wide-set eyes, a sharp chin, a high-cliffed brow, and jet-black hair spiked sharply in the front. The effect was that of an anime woodpecker in a pinstriped suit. The man took Viva’s hand and introduced himself as Clure Boyette.”
― Carl Hiaasen, Fever Beach: A Novel

“Hell, the governor of the whole state was a whackadoodle who believed that Noah brought dinosaurs on the ark.”
― Carl Hiaasen, Fever Beach: A Novel

“In his Wikipedia picture he wore the look of an orphaned marmot.”
― Carl Hiaasen, Fever Beach: A Novel

“night”
― Carl Hiaasen, Fever Beach: A Novel

“One thing that Jonas Onus learned the hard way on Fever Beach: It’s not like the movies or television, where a guy gets kneed in the nuts, rolls around moaning for a minute, then pops to his feet and starts punching again. In real life the pain keeps you down. Also, your balls swell up so much they don’t even look like balls—more like weird raw plums, blackish and purple. And they hurt so fucking bad you almost wish they’d fall off. Onus stayed in bed all the next morning. At noon he went to the Winn-Dixie, where he walked the aisles at toddler speed with his knees pinched together. He picked up a twelve-pack of Budweiser, a bottle of Advil, and a bag of ice.”
― Carl Hiaasen, Fever Beach: A Novel

“from nowhere, spoiling what was otherwise a placid scene, arises the obnoxious sound of an ATV speeding back and forth through the scrub. Keep in mind that this is private property, actually your own damn property. So you put the shovel in the back of your truck and proceed slowly (headlights off) down the narrow dirt road until the trespassing vehicle comes into view, parked sideways and blocking the way. It’s a Polaris quad with the inevitable camo wrap. Also: whip antenna, rifle rack, oversize mud tires, and an LED light bar for night romps.”
― Carl Hiaasen, Fever Beach: A Novel

“dooming Americans to a squalid future of unisex bathrooms, pornography-packed libraries, and weak shower nozzles.”
― Carl Hiaasen, Fever Beach: A Novel