Chomp Quotes
"Pop, you’re gonna be okay," Wahoo would tell his father every morning. "Just hang in there."
"Whatever happens, I’m glad we ate that bleeping lizard."
"It’s like she’s leaving us twice," he remarked.
"Are you crazy, boy? Look at me, I can’t see straight, I can’t hardly walk, my skull’s ’bout to split open like a rotten pumpkin—"
"Know what Beulah would say? ‘All you stupid humans taste the same!’"
"Just what the world needs—another darn lawyer," he’d grumble.
"Did the old man take any money yet?" Julie asked.
"Consider it done," the director said, although he had no intention of destroying the turtle tape.
"It’s not the same soft green grass that’s growing in your backyard. Check this out—"
"See? Like a barber’s razor! They don’t call it saw grass for nothing."
"Everything I eat and drink—and, believe me, I’m bloody famished—will come from the natural bounty of this savage but magnificent wilderness."
"From now on, we’re putting the ‘real’ back in ‘reality.’"
"I’ve been fighting my way through this swamp for four, possibly five hours straight—I’ve lost track of the time."
"One bite, even from a baby, and I could be a dead man."
"I get no pleasure from taking the life of any wild creature, but if I don’t eat, I won’t have the strength to keep going."
"The heat is virtually unbearable, and the mosquitoes are so thick that I have to stop every few minutes to cough them out of my lungs!"
"Remember, I’m an experienced survivalist. I know how to handle these unpredictable rascals."
"Sometimes you wait for somebody to change, and you end up waiting too long."
"Deep in the Everglades, the swamp is unforgiving and food is scarce."
"When you’re as hungry as I am, this little bugger looks as juicy as a T-bone steak!"
"Wild bats can be vicious, and their teeth are needle sharp."
"What do you mean by ‘gone’?" Gerry Germaine asked Raven.
"A seriously ticked-off bat. Derek was bleeding all over the place," Raven said.
"It appears that he stole—let’s say ‘borrowed’—an airboat. We don’t know why."
"I remember the bills," Gerry Germaine said. "Twenty-four hundred bucks we paid some Cajun fisherman for ‘vessel repairs.’"
"Absolutely not. I don’t want to see this all over the media."
"It’s possible the bat had rabies. Derek could be losing his mind."
"We need to keep this ultra-hush-hush," he said.
"Rabies, it seemed, was a most unpleasant disease."
"Another thirty minutes was spent debating how and where the search should be conducted."
"Over a tense lunch of barbecued chicken wings, provided by Sickler at the criminal price of eight dollars a box."
"But if you wanna pay me to hang around, ma’am, I’ll gladly oblige."
"In the final saga, Revenge of the Blood Moon, Dax himself gets chomped by a bat."
"Derek recalled with alarm that daylight caused vampires to either melt or catch fire, possibly both."
"Soon Derek’s stomach began snarling with hunger, a beast more bold and ferocious than any mere vampire."
"The longer Derek Badger stayed lost, the better it would be for Sickler’s business."
"She’s real sick," the man said. "She run off without her medicine."
"It’s called Floyd’s disease. She could die from it."
"The lightning bolt shot down the trunk of the bay tree and came out at the roots."
"With a little luck, the cops will come across Derek before they track down this lunatic Gordon."
"If you believe something can cure you, it just might."
"Mickey wasn’t good at behaving passively when the circumstance seemed to call for action."
"The plan to recapture his runaway daughter at gunpoint, which had seemed so brilliant in the early stages of Jared Gordon’s beer binge, now looked like a big mistake."
"Psychology doesn’t work when you’re dealing with a stubborn six-hundred-pound gator or a cranky fourteen-foot python."
"The average reptile didn’t carry a loaded gun and guzzle beer."
"The sun slipped below the western horizon and a buttery half-moon appeared in the east."