“Alluding to the extent of Florida, a mere peninsula confined between two seas, they pretended that it could never sustain the shock of the discharge, and that it would "bust up" at the very first shot."Very well, let it bust up!" replied the Floridans, with a brevity of the days of ancient Sparta.”
“Busted. I'm a monster. Jev is my deceptively harmless-and shockingly handsome-alter ego.”
“Sometimes you're flush and sometimes you're bust, and when you're up, it's never as good as it seems, and when you're down, you never think you'll be up again, but life goes on.”
“This is the extent of his knowledge of the sea: it was very big, it was salty, and fish lived there.”
“On my first day of kindergarten:"You thought it was hard? If kindergarten is busting your ass, I got some bad news for you about the rest of life.”
“Just thinking about January being in that shack all alone made him swell up fit to bust his britches.”