- Johnny Gray: Men who live by sharks, get to live like them. You could almost smell the way that guy was thinking. We looked fat and he was hungry.
- Johnny Gray: Theresa, baby, I've seen it with my own eyes!
- Theresa Gray: Johnny, I think you've seen it with his eyes.
- Johnny Gray: The sea had washed off her makeup and the worms had eaten her skin. But to us, at that moment, this hulk was a living doll.
- Johnny Gray: Those sand shrimps weren't used to entertaining visitors. There must have been a thousand of them - chattering like old ladies on the porch of some hotel. And where there was that many sand shrimps, there was plenty of sand.