Tyrannosaurus Wrecks Quotes

“If you buried a LEGO Star Wars Millennium Falcon in a field and told the Barksdales it was a UFO crash, they’d probably believe it.” “We should do that,” Dash said.”
― Stuart Gibbs, Tyrannosaurus Wrecks

“That alligator might be cute now,” I said, “but what happens when it doesn’t fit in the bathtub anymore? In a few years, it’ll be six feet long and need a lot more to eat than hot dogs. What are you going to feed it then?” “Stray dogs?”
― Stuart Gibbs, Tyrannosaurus Wrecks

“I’m not sure…” Sage said, “We all get to ride ATVs to get out to the site.” “Deal,”
― Stuart Gibbs, Tyrannosaurus Wrecks

“I’ll call you later to talk about our sting operation,” she said, then gave me a quick peck on the cheek and climbed out of our car.”
― Stuart Gibbs, Tyrannosaurus Wrecks

“newborn baby hunting.”
― Stuart Gibbs, Tyrannosaurus Wrecks

“I swim, but the potatoes come.”
― Stuart Gibbs, Tyrannosaurus Wrecks

“speedometer”
― Stuart Gibbs, Tyrannosaurus Wrecks

“the J. J. Pickle”
― Stuart Gibbs, Tyrannosaurus Wrecks

“making great sucking sounds”
― Stuart Gibbs, Tyrannosaurus Wrecks

“The fracas in front of the FunJungle administration building made the news all over the country, turning both our local police and the FunJungle security team into a laughingstock. One clip had gone viral: Marge O’Malley had attempted to deck Officer Brewster, but missed and taken out Zelda Zebra instead.”
― Stuart Gibbs, Tyrannosaurus Wrecks

“considered throwing a cup of frozen slush into the criminal’s eyes and blinding him the way that Xavier had done with the Smoothie of Justice a few days before.”
― Stuart Gibbs, Tyrannosaurus Wrecks

“Chen remained blissfully unconscious, although she did startle me at one point by sleepily murmuring, “I swim, but the potatoes come.”
― Stuart Gibbs, Tyrannosaurus Wrecks

“only. A sock puppet can’t kill anyone”
― Stuart Gibbs, Tyrannosaurus Wrecks

“Who’s that?” I made the stupidest face I could. “The Barksdales?”
― Stuart Gibbs, Tyrannosaurus Wrecks

“If you buried a LEGO Star Wars Millennium Falcon in a field and told the Barksdales it was a UFO crash, they’d probably believe it.”
― Stuart Gibbs, Tyrannosaurus Wrecks

“Can we do the hind lick maneuver or something?” “You mean the Heimlich maneuver?” “Yeah, whatever. I know that with humans, you’re supposed to hit them in the stomach to make them throw up their food, but we don’t know where the stomach is in this thing. It’s like all neck.”
― Stuart Gibbs, Tyrannosaurus Wrecks

“As mascots went, he wasn’t very cute; personally, the first time I had seen him, I thought it was supposed to be a piece of poop with eyes. But for some reason, people adored him, and his likeness was slapped on everything from T-shirts to beer mugs to dish towels.”
― Stuart Gibbs, Tyrannosaurus Wrecks

“all we know, Rick didn’t even give them a cobra. It was probably a sock with googly eyes glued to it.”
― Stuart Gibbs, Tyrannosaurus Wrecks

“I made the stupidest face I could. “The Barksdales?” she asked, immediately understanding.”
― Stuart Gibbs, Tyrannosaurus Wrecks

“light the night before. Downriver, I found the footprints of our mystery guests, but they were from the kind of hiking boot that pretty much everyone wore. I didn’t find anything new around the dig, not that I really expected to come across anything else as blatant as the Weems Aerospace pen. But it was still incredible to be in the middle of a real dinosaur dig, surrounded by honest-to-goodness tyrannosaur bones. We had to strike camp early. Sage needed to help out around the ranch, Dash and Ethan had to get to their summer jobs, and Summer had lined up more investigating for us to do. Once again, I hadn’t agreed to this so much as been thrust into it. I had turned off my phone when I went to sleep, and when I turned it back on, I found a long text chain from Summer saying that she was heading to Snakes Alive in the morning to question Rick, and she was doing it with or without me. I also found a series of e-mails that I had been included on between Summer and Tommy Lopez. Summer had written to Tommy with an update about what had happened at the Barksdales’ and our lead to Rick at Snakes Alive. Tommy had responded that this was great work, but then said he was still going to be out of town on business at least another day, at which point Summer had suggested approaching Rick with me, posing as normal kids who wanted to buy a snake. To my surprise, Tommy had been supportive. He even thought there might be an advantage”
― Stuart Gibbs, Tyrannosaurus Wrecks

“steaks so fresh, they had probably been walking around the day before.”
― Stuart Gibbs, Tyrannosaurus Wrecks

“It was like being chased by a rhinoceros. Except that rhinos are generally good-natured.”
― Stuart Gibbs, Tyrannosaurus Wrecks

“which Dashiell and Ethan responded to by making kissy noises and chanting, “Teddy has a girlfriend.”
― Stuart Gibbs, Tyrannosaurus Wrecks

“squeaky”
― Stuart Gibbs, Tyrannosaurus Wrecks

“LEGO Star Wars Millennium Falcon”
― Stuart Gibbs, Tyrannosaurus Wrecks

“your own snake. The truck swerved wildly, veered off the road, flattened the neighbor’s mailbox, and then smashed into an oak tree. The front end of the pristine vehicle crumpled like tinfoil, and the airbags deployed. Thankfully, the Barksdales hadn’t been”
― Stuart Gibbs, Tyrannosaurus Wrecks

“Whoa there,” Dash warned Ethan, watching him ladle beans onto his plate. “Not so many of those. Or this place is gonna be Toot City tonight.” “I’ll be fine,” Ethan replied. “Yeah, right,” Dash teased. “Last time you ate beans, it sounded like the D-Day invasion. And the smell! Every canary for twenty miles dropped dead.”
― Stuart Gibbs, Tyrannosaurus Wrecks