Toni Dwiggins > Quotes

“I live in a small town, a town without much serious crime, but I’ll tell you there are days when I see enough mean-spirited ugliness to ruin my lunch.”
― Toni Dwiggins, Skeleton Sea

“It’s more a question of what jumps out at you.” “Cassie, what jumps out at me in the dead of night belongs in the realm of bad poetry.”
― Toni Dwiggins, Badwater

“We were, as best I could tell by the castoff of emergency lights, on an alluvial fan leading into the hacked-up foothills of a gaunt range that loomed above. “We are just off Nevada state highway 95,” Soliano said, “southwest of the town of Beatty. A passing motorist saw ‘something funny’ and notified the Beatty sheriff, who investigated and notified federal responders. I came out here and determined that we wanted a forensic geology consult. We have you on file. I am told you are worth your fee.”
― Toni Dwiggins, Badwater

“I understand that you can love something in the whole and yet not love every part of it.”
― Toni Dwiggins, Quicksilver

“What it is, in fact, is a cleverly camouflaged volcano.”
― Toni Dwiggins, Volcano Watch

“One solid thing I’ve learned in my work is that memory is a slippery fish. And easily shaped by desire.”
― Toni Dwiggins, Skeleton Sea

“Scotty handed me rubbery overgloves. The bar-code sticker said Wal-Mart. The RERT chief shops discount? I took a closer look at the equipment racks. Indeed, much of this stuff would be at home in Walter’s garage: brooms, shovels, hoses, portable vacuum.”
― Toni Dwiggins, Badwater

“Grateful for a cop who recognized rocks as evidence, who treated them with the same respect given to fingerprints or cigarette butts or bloodstains or what have you.”
― Toni Dwiggins, Skeleton Sea

“never love anything that can’t love you back.”
― Toni Dwiggins, Volcano Watch