Florida Straits Quotes

“yacht club tastes and a rubber ducky budget.”
― Laurence Shames, Florida Straits

“An old man's errors mattered both more and less than a young man's. More because there was less time to undo them; less because there was less time to endure their consequences.”
― Laurence Shames, Florida Straits

“She flushed a becoming pink during the ceremony; her green eyes moistened and shimmered like the calm and prosperous ocean.”
― Laurence Shames, Florida Straits

“His father was not a man to make a habit of offering his upturned throat.”
― Laurence Shames, Florida Straits

“Hot April sunshine poured in through the open top of the old Caddy, shafts of it splattering into rainbows as they sliced through the facets of the spiderweb windshield.”
― Laurence Shames, Florida Straits

“Key West—a town of people passing through, looking around, waiting, hoping for something special to happen, then not having a clue what was going on when it did.”
― Laurence Shames, Florida Straits

“An old man's errors mattered both more and less than a young man's. More because there was less time to undo them; less because there was less time to endure their consequences. "You coulda done plenty, Joey. I never gave you a chance.”
― Laurence Shames, Florida Straits