The Devil's Teeth Quotes

“No one knew exactly why the seals ate stones, but maybe, some thought, it was for ballast. Or to help digestion. Or to stave off hunger. Or, as Brown had written in the journal, 'maybe they're just weird.”
― Susan Casey, The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks

“While chasing birds, he had hitchhiked through some of the most desolate places imaginable. Nicaraguan jungles, Indian slums, Samoa fruit bat colonies. But when asked to name the least likable place he'd seen in the world, he instantly pointed to an affluent California suburb: Walnut Creek, no question.”
― Susan Casey, The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks

“The jellies living nearest the surface had transparent bodies, but their edges twinkled and flashed, as though traced by fiber-optic cables, blinking and undulating like neon signs. They were delicate; if you weren’t looking”
― Susan Casey, The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks

“One little known fact: The water that spouts out of a whale’s blowhole in such a picturesque way reeks like the most toxic fart imaginable.”
― Susan Casey, The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks

“UC Santa Cruz biologist had discovered elevated levels of radiation in fish swimming among some of the 47,500 barrels of nuclear waste that the navy had dumped in a 540-square-mile area around the Farallones between 1946 and 1970.”
― Susan Casey, The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks

“At the Farallones, encounters with the rare and the unusual—and even the miraculous—were common. You had the sense that every possibility was still open, even the ones that were unreasonable to hope for. Anything could happen. It was an upside-down place where every normal assumption was challenged, a parallel universe where Peter, Scot, and Stumpy became celebrities and Brad Pitt was told to stay home.”
― Susan Casey, The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks

“Superfish.”
― Susan Casey, The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks

“inexperienced Rat Packer who constantly sidled up to the boat, was laden with so much electronic gear that he came to be known as Radio Shack. The lone”
― Susan Casey, The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks

“retrieving”
― Susan Casey, The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks

“slime eel, a primitive creature with five hearts and no eyes that bores its way inside fish, devouring them from within,”
― Susan Casey, The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks