Black Coral Quotes

“Alligators will dig into the dirt below the waterline and tunnel as far back as fifteen feet, creating a chamber large enough for them to turn around inside.”
― Andrew Mayne, Black Coral

“My gut saved me several times in the last few minutes. Now it’s telling me something else. This body wasn’t the only one in the lake.”
― Andrew Mayne, Black Coral

“usually define fear as the thing I feel when the unexpected happens. Anxiety is when I’m doing something that I already know is stupid.”
― Andrew Mayne, Black Coral

“We just used grenades and MP7s,” says Hughes. “That doesn’t exactly sound humane,” replies Kell. “Those crocodiles were all members of ISIS. My commander told me so.”
― Andrew Mayne, Black Coral

“concerned”
― Andrew Mayne, Black Coral

“I usually define fear as the thing I feel when the unexpected happens. Anxiety is when I’m doing something that I already know is stupid.”
― Andrew Mayne, Black Coral

“It doesn’t change what happened. It simply reveals the truth that we’re all weird. We’re all messy in our own way.”
― Andrew Mayne, Black Coral

“For me, at least, half of dealing with grief is trying to figure out what I’m supposed to show the outside world.”
― Andrew Mayne, Black Coral

“Zookeepers move the food around each day so the gorillas don’t get bored. They turn it into an Easter-egg hunt. The gorillas need challenges. The lack of one makes ’em go nuts. We need someone to hide our food,” I explain.”
― Andrew Mayne, Black Coral

“Those crocodiles were all members of ISIS. My commander told me so.”
― Andrew Mayne, Black Coral

“remember what my father taught me about orienting. Look for a large marker, then a small one. Find the mountain, then look for the valley, then the tree. Or in the treasure-hunting world, the breakers, the reef, then the cove.”
― Andrew Mayne, Black Coral