No Surrender Quotes

“My father used to say that you live most of your life inside your own head, so make sure it's a good space.”
― Carl Hiaasen, No Surrender

“My father used to say that you live most of your life inside your own head, so make sure it’s a good space.”
― Carl Hiaasen, No Surrender

“says it’s better to be with a simple man who really cares about you than to be with some Einstein who treats you like a doormat.”
― Carl Hiaasen, No Surrender

“fell sick, too—and those that survived stopped having babies. All this went down a few years before my mom and dad were born, in the middle of ordinary America. Terrible but true. Growing up by the ocean, I’ve always taken birds for granted. How bad would it suck to grow up in a place where life was gone from the skies and the trees? I closed the book and took note of what was visible in the woods—warblers, sparrows, mockingbirds, a lone crow, redwing blackbirds, a pair of cardinals. From the water’s edge I could hear kingfishers and ospreys and a croaky blue heron. Somewhere else a northern flicker was hammering on a cypress trunk, which made me wonder how one wood-pecking species managed to survive mankind’s dumbass mistakes while others—like the poor ivorybill—didn’t make it. I closed the book, thinking about my own survival issues. Skink would have been back by now, if he were coming. Either the gator had nailed him”
― Carl Hiaasen, No Surrender

“You live most of your life in your head, so make sure it's in a good space.”
― Carl Hiassen, No Surrender

“I'm not a religious person,' Skink continued, 'but stealing a preacher's car is a slime-dog move, even by the gutter standards of today's common criminal.”
― Carl Hiaasen, No Surrender

“Malley said, 'What's your problem, T.C.? If these two are dumb enough to swim through a lightning storm, let 'em go.'
'No, no, I gotta think.'
The governor said thinking was highly overrated, which made me and my cousin laugh in spite of the situation.”
― Carl Hiaasen, No Surrender

“One time I asked my father, who was super laid-back, if he believed in evil. We'd been watching the TV news when an awful story came on about some guy who went to a crowded movie theater and started shooting everyone, people he'd never met before, even kids. The lawyer for the shooter said he had severe emotional problems (which was, like, no kidding), but in my mind, that didn't account for how and why he devised a plan so awful and cold-blooded.
And I remember Dad mulling my question for a few moments before saying that true evil was rare, but, yes, it was real. He also said that it didn't occur in any other species besides humans, and I believe he was right. Violence and brutal domination exist in the animal world as a means for survival, not as sport or sick amusement.”
― Carl Hiaasen, No Surrender

“his mother wanted him closer to home. The funeral had been”
― Carl Hiaasen, Skink—No Surrender

“Malley told the shrink that she’d run away because Justin”
― Carl Hiaasen, Skink—No Surrender