“Well, the plenty of fish in the sea thing is bullshit," I said. "The other fish are weird, smell funny, or hooked on someone else's fishing line.”
“You fit into melike a hook into an eyea fish hookan open eye”
“... we [can] catch fish and just throw them back... it [doesn't] seem to hurt the fish much past a cut lip. But then... one [may] swallow the hook...[it'd be] a goner, whether we tried to pull it out or just cut the line. Because once you've swallowed the hook, there's no losing it. Me, I've swallowed it big time. ”
“She heard pa shouting,"Jiminy crickets!It's raining fish-hooks and hammer handles!”
“Don’t even think about it.You’ll never catch that big fish with your small hook.”