Below Zero Quotes
"You can’t look at it that way, you can’t look at it like it’s a car or a truck. You’ve got to look at it as your house on wheels. You’re moving your own house from place to place. Eight miles per gallon is a small price to pay for living in your own house."
"We’re kind of a like a club, us Fleetwood people."
"You’re just a kid. You shouldn’t even be here."
"They’ll act as silencers and muffle the shots."
"She lied. You should have left her in Chicago."
"We traded a life of farming for life in The Unit. We do the circuit now."
"We all have to do what we can, not what we want to do."
"The only people up, it seemed, were the bored clerk reading a newspaper on the counter of the twenty-four-hour Kum-And-Go convenience store and the morning cook at the Burg-O-Pardner starting on the biscuits and sausage gravy for early rising fishermen."
"His neighborhood was new in terms of Saddlestring itself—thirty years old—and had grown leafy and suburban."
"I didn’t think you slept," Joe said, "with all the lawn maintenance and all."
"Tube bounded out as if he knew he was home at last."
"She smiled cautiously and shot a look toward the darkened hallway that lead to Sheridan’s and Lucy’s bedrooms."
"Anyway," she said, scrolling, "Here it is. The first text came in at eleven-eighteen last night."
"Joe and Sheridan watched the exchange in chastised silence."
"Joe entered the house from the back to avoid seeing Nedney."
"For a few minutes they forgot about the text messages, Nedney, what time it was, and even Tube, who curled up on the rug at the foot of the bed like he owned the place."
"Do you need to get some sleep? I’ve been dozing the last couple of hours waiting for you."
"I can spot 'em a mile away. You know how some people have 'gay-dar' when it comes to picking out gay people? Bo said I had 'Gore-dar,' the ability to pick out whacko enviros. You know, after Al Gore."
"Bo was paranoid. But you didn’t need to kill him for that."
"I knew he had a gun in the truck. I mean, who doesn’t around here?"
"He had nice eyes—I remember that. Maybe six foot or a little over. Maybe, I don’t know, two hundred and fifty pounds?"
"I remember you saying you wondered if April was doomed."
"We ought to have Cyndi take a look at this. She might recognize that guy. My guess is he’s Robert."
"The effort knocked her over and she was scrambling on all fours to get back on her feet when she found the cellphone in a stand of weeds."
"I knew it was one of those cheap-ass phones like the ones you get at Wal-Mart. He said somebody probably used it up and threw it away."
"I called every ex-boyfriend whose phone number I could remember and told them they were full of shit."
"I don’t know where it is. It’s probably somewhere in Bo’s pickup. It’s probably shot up all to hell, like poor Bo."
"She could be somebody," Sheridan said. "But I can’t tell for sure yet."
"We need to examine this on our hardware in Cheyenne," he said. "I don’t know how to look closer."
"What about April’s cellphone? Cyndi said she left it in Skelton’s truck. Let’s see if it’s the right phone."
"I’m sure there’s a computer chip or something with the call log on it. Can’t you guys find that and analyze it? Isn’t that what you do?"
"What had April written when Sheridan asked her why she was in Aspen? 'Wedding & footprints.'"
"One for me, one for the dead psycho, and one for more bodies outside."
"I try to live low-impact," Nate explained to her dad.
"I hate people who prey on the sincere goodwill of others. I hate false religious prophets who milk the savings from people who want to be healed or saved and I hate false environmental prophets who do the same damned thing."
"You’re the one who got us into this, not me."
"He’s the one who worries me the most because he’s a hothead, and without his brothers’ calming influence, he’s known to explode."
"We can’t find her again unless she calls or sends a text to your daughter."
"I don’t want you around right now. Go outside, April. This will be over soon."
"It wasn’t me who hit her. I never even saw her."
"They’re gonna find us here if we stay. And if they find us, they’ll butcher me. You need to take more of that stuff so you can function."
"Did you see what he just did?" the EMT said to the deputy.
"What’s your take on man-made global warming, Joe?" Nate asked.
"The only words she could express were in her own head."
"Every time I try to do something right it seems like they end up getting hurt …"
"It’s a freaking wonder I’m so well adjusted, you know?"
"If she lay still, maybe they wouldn’t see her against the tree."
"I hope Robert isn’t dead because I want to kill him."
"She just hoped they’d just kill her and nothing else."
"Blood, bone, and tissue spattered the grass."
"You never should have brought her, Dad. You never should have brought her."
"The lack of feeling or emotion on his face scared her more than if he’d been snarling."
"She’s just out of surgery for her leg injury so she’s still under."
"I don’t know who she is or why she said she told us she was April."
"I never even considered the possibility. She needs our help, Joe."
"We’ve got to help her, Joe. Even if she’s not conscious, she needs to know we’re here and we care about her."
"April wasn’t the only child in the Sovereign Camp that day."
"For once, she didn’t turn her phone off right away after she sent the text."
"That’s what he’s thinking. You know how the bureaucracy works."
"But I’m not sure what to do. Every minute Stenko is getting farther away and we don’t even know what direction."
"The bee struck him right in the forehead, and it was just like a bullet, the impact of that damned bee."
"Don’t you dare say what you did was for me. It’s your turn now, so why don’t you solve all these problems?"
"I tried to convince myself that it might be her, that her looks had just changed as she got older. But no, it’s not her. Not at all."
"I’m starting to get the feeling that I never really knew her at all."
"She might have been days before anyone found me."
"You can always tell a rancher by his tan line."
"It might have been days before anyone found me. And they marched Walter out of here at the point of a gun."
"He doesn’t get out much. It’s been years since he’s been any farther away than Rapid City."
"He’s probably hiding out with some falconer buddy of his. Those guys take care of each other."
"We’ve really got our necks out there this time."
"I’ve seen him blow up a couple of times and it’s not a good experience. I think my skin actually blistered the last time."
"It’s been rough. But we may finally be closing in on them."
"The implications of Marybeth’s statement made it suddenly hard to breathe."