Sports Fiction Quotes

“Now Isla Plata was to fishing as Nantucket was to whaling: a memory of a bygone era.”
― L.M. Weeks, Poontown: A Novel of Chasing Tarpon and Glory

“Striped bass are the gateway drug to saltwater fly fishing. Catch one on fly, and twenty years later, you’re throwin’ pink synthetic chickens at marlin.”
― L.M. Weeks, Poontown: A Novel of Chasing Tarpon and Glory

“He loved the eternal feeling of being on the water, in the zone, day after day as if time had stopped.”
― L.M. Weeks, Poontown: A Novel of Chasing Tarpon and Glory

“In his quest to be the best, he had squeezed all of the joy out of the most sublime fishing in the world.”
― L.M. Weeks, Poontown: A Novel of Chasing Tarpon and Glory

“When a team is winning, the guides credit the angler and the anglers credit the guide.”
― L.M. Weeks, Poontown: A Novel of Chasing Tarpon and Glory

“You create a winning team by combining a guide who can find the fish that don’t want to be found with an angler who can catch the fish that don’t want to be caught.”
― L.M. Weeks, Poontown: A Novel of Chasing Tarpon and Glory

“I’m my own woman and my choices are my own — even if they are the wrong ones.”
― Gillie Basson, Undefeated: A Historical Novel Inspired by the World's First Female Bare-Knuckle Fighter

“Tarpon fishing is a state of mind. It transports us to a special place completely outside of our normal lives.”
― L.M. Weeks, Poontown: A Novel of Chasing Tarpon and Glory

“With Robert gone, I’ve decided to leave the fighting world and try to start afresh. If only a fresh start would present itself. The only thing fresh is the tankard of gin in front of me”.”
― Gillie Basson, Undefeated: A Historical Novel Inspired by the World's First Female Bare-Knuckle Fighter

“I like punching someone in the face. It’s a useful release from everything else. All my life, it seems, all I’ve known is fighting”
― Gillie Basson, Undefeated: A Historical Novel Inspired by the World's First Female Bare-Knuckle Fighter

“She’d never shied away from a challenge before, no matter how loudly her self-doubt had screamed.”
― L.M. Weeks, Poontown: A Novel of Chasing Tarpon and Glory