Mo O'Hara > Quotes

“genius,” he mumbled. I looked out of the kitchen window as I filled up Frankie’s plastic bag in the sink, and there”
― Mo O'Hara, My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish

“Now, we’d had goldfish before. We won them at a church fair by throwing ping-pong balls into the little bowls they were swimming in. They didn’t live very long though. Mom said it was because the fish all had concussions from being hit on the head with the ping-pong balls. I had a concussion once when I was four, after I accidentally ran into the front door that Mark accidentally slammed shut just as he accidentally yelled, “Run, Tom, run.” That was back when he was just mostly evil.”
― Mo O'Hara, My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish

“And you know that squirmy, prickly feeling you get when you let a millipede crawl on your arm? I had that feeling, but in my stomach.”
― Mo O'Hara, My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish

“home-moanal.” Which”
― Mo O'Hara, My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish

“My best friend, Pradeep, who lives next door, says that ‘moron’ is a big-brother word for little brothers. His brother Sanj, who’s also mostly evil, calls him that too.”
― Mo O'Hara, My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish

“Mwhaaa-haaa-haaa-haaa!” that my Evil Scientist big brother, Mark, would have been proud of.”
― Mo O'Hara, Jurassic Carp

“said,”
― Mo O'Hara, My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish

“the place look like the set of some old scary movie. Goose bumps”
― Mo O'Hara, The Seaquel

“stream.”
― Mo O'Hara, Fins of Fury

“garden, heading for the fence.”
― Mo O'Hara, Fins of Fury

“Frankie’s zombie goldfish eyes as we sat in the back of my dad’s car. And every time Dad screeched round another bend, Pradeep turned a deeper shade of green. We were on our way to the vacation place that Dad had booked. Usually only Dad, my Evil Scientist big brother Mark, Pradeep’s dad and his evil computer-genius big brother Sanj went on the Big Summer Weekend. But this year Sanj was”
― Mo O'Hara, The Seaquel

“dopey prehistoric fish.”
― Mo O'Hara, Jurassic Carp

“McDoom”
― Mo O'Hara, Jurassic Carp

“Pradeep and I headed out of the auditorium while everyone clapped. Just as we got to the exit, we looked back and saw Mark approach the stage. What was he doing here at our school? And on a Saturday? My lip-reading skills are pretty good, but from that distance all I could make out was, “I think we have the same ideas about science. And I think I know where you can get the perfect…” Then Mark turned away and I couldn’t see what he was saying anymore. Pradeep and I were rushed through the doors with the rest of the crowd. “Mark seemed pretty interested in talking to Dr. McDoom,” I said. “Yeah,” Pradeep admitted. “And her laugh definitely sounded evil,” I added. “But we don’t have any proof that she’s actually an Evil Scientist. Even if she is talking to Mark. She’s a world-renowned paleontologist. We can’t accuse her of being evil just because she has an evil laugh,” Pradeep defended her. “And an evil name,” I said. Frankie popped his head through the holes in both jackets and nodded.”
― Mo O'Hara, Jurassic Carp