The Water and the Wild Quotes

“You might have a little trouble waking me," Fife told Adelaide. "I'm a very sound sleeper."
"No worries," Adelaide said sweetly. "I'll just kick your face till you come to.”
― K.E. Ormsbee, The Water and the Wild

“Eliot isn't like anyone I know. He's just Eliot. And even if he isn't refined, he knows how to live. That's why I'm not about to let him die.”
― K.E. Ormsbee, The Water and the Wild

“On the day that five angry creditors came calling at Thirsby Square, Mr. Yates inconveniently fell nose-first into his porridge and died, leaving Mrs. Yates to clean up the mess in the kitchen and at the bank.”
― K.E. Ormsbee, The Water and the Wild