Poached Quotes

“In the entire world, sharks kill fewer than ten people a year, while coconuts falling from trees take out 150.”
― Stuart Gibbs, Poached

“Teddy is ten years younger than I am,” Kristi replied coldly. “I’m not friends with any twelve-year-olds. But if you’re asking do I like the kid? Then yes, I do.”
― Stuart Gibbs, Poached

“Both did their best to play dumb. Given that they were dumb, it shouldn’t have been that hard, and yet they didn’t do a very good job of it.”
― Stuart Gibbs, Poached

“What do I look like to you, an idiot?” Almost any other time I would have answered yes.”
― Stuart Gibbs, Poached

“Don’t hurt Yogi!” yelled the German father, who still didn’t know who I was supposed to be.”
― Stuart Gibbs, Poached

“Violence is never the answer.”
― Stuart Gibbs, Poached

“In fact koalas spend so little time thinking, their brains actually appear to have shrunk over the last few centuries; the koala is the only known animal whose brain only fills half of its skull.”
― Stuart Gibbs, Poached

“DVD into the hard drive, then brought up the file. It was quite large—a few hours of footage from multiple cameras—so it took a while”
― Stuart Gibbs, Poached

“because of his size. Sadly, this was probably true. As a dwarf, Charlie”
― Stuart Gibbs, Poached

“Case closed.”
― Stuart Gibbs, Poached

“beanball.”
― Stuart Gibbs, Poached

“spend so little time thinking, their brains actually appear to have shrunk over the last few centuries; the koala is the only known animal whose”
― Stuart Gibbs, Poached

“ZooTopia,”
― Stuart Gibbs, Poached

“boner.”
― Stuart Gibbs, Poached

“Charlie Connor,”
― Stuart Gibbs, Poached

“thief”
― Stuart Gibbs, Poached

“niggled”
― Stuart Gibbs, Poached

“Don’t hurt Yogi!” yelled the German father, who still didn’t know who I was supposed to be. Now that he was outnumbered, Astros Cap wasn’t so tough anymore. He raised his hands, signaling the others to back down. “Hold on,” he said meekly. “This is all just a big misunderstanding. There’s no need to get nasty.” “Yes there is!” I yelled. “He stole my wallet!” The mob grew even angrier. “You mugged an innocent koala?” a grandmother shouted at Astros Cap.”
― Stuart Gibbs, Poached

“and chuckled. “You’re a one-man police department, kid.” Marge glowered at me in response. The elevator doors”
― Stuart Gibbs, Poached

“Koalas used to be hunted for their fur. Today, they die from malnutrition, from being hit by cars, and from being mauled by pet dogs”
― Stuart Gibbs, Poached

“I always thought koalas were cute and all, but this one was mean. It started running around my house, squealing like a pig, knocking everything over and totally destroying the place.”
― Stuart Gibbs, Poached

“Mr. Dillnut”
― Stuart Gibbs, Poached

“She only has it in for me because I once swapped her black jelly beans with rabbit poo.”
― Stuart Gibbs, Poached

“So the next time one of these guys comes at you,” Dad said, “you just haul off and punch him square in the nose.”
― Stuart Gibbs, Poached

“Either they hadn’t heard the warning about the escaped lion, or they were so determined to see Kazoo that they were willing to risk being mauled to do it.”
― Stuart Gibbs, Poached

“one of the many companies J.J. McCracken owned made high-quality surveillance cameras, so he’d given himself a deal on them.”
― Stuart Gibbs, Poached

“He said he could barely walk and wanted a couple million dollars to settle. But the park hired a private detective who caught him dancing at a nightclub, and the case was bounced out of court.”
― Stuart Gibbs, Poached

“The actors had plenty of stories about tourists discussing everything from crimes they’d committed to their secret ATM codes right in front of the mascots.”
― Stuart Gibbs, Poached

“What’d you do?” Dad asked. “I put a snake in his gym bag.” Dad stared at me for a moment, then grinned. “That’s my boy,” he said.”
― Stuart Gibbs, Poached

“I spent”
― Stuart Gibbs, Poached