“Never have I know spirits so low they could not be raised by hearing of a Frenchman eaten by a shark!”
“Faye, if you got eaten by another shark, would you please at least have the decency to say so? My time is kind of limited, if you know what I’m sayin’.”
“They said it was only a ground shark; but I was not wholly reassured. It is as bad to be eaten by a ground shark as by any other.”
“What have I done to deserve that look?" He asked in a low voice so that nobody else could hear.”
“You always hear a headline like this, 'Man Killed By Shark', you never hear it from the other perspective, 'Man Swims in Shark Infested Waters, Forgets He's Shark Food'.”
“He gave you to me," she said, so low I could hardly hear her. "Now I have to give you back to him, Mama.”