Holes Quotes - Page 13

• There are many horrible sights in the multiverse. Somehow, though, to a soul attuned to the subtle rhythms of a library, there are few worse sights than a hole where a book ought to be.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Sight, Soul

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Guards! Guards!: (Discworld Novel 8)”, p.49, Random House

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• When I was younger, I used to vacillate between thinking love was this great and glorious mystery and thinking it was just something a bunch of Hollywood move producers made up to sell more tickets in the Depression, when Dish Night kind of played out." Eddie laughed. Now I think that all of us are born with a hole in our hearts, and we go around looking for the person who can fill it. You...Eddie, you fill me up.

  Stephen King

  Moving, Heart, Night

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• We had and incident. I took care of it." "Really." Jace's voice dripped sarcasm. "Do you even know how to use that knife, Clarissa? Without poking a hole in yourself or any innocent bystanders?

  Cassandra Clare

  Sarcasm, Bystanders, Knives

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “City of Ashes”, p.240, Simon and Schuster

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• This hole in my heart is in the shape of you. No one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?

  Jeanette Winterson

  Heart, Shapes, Want

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• It’s so real." "Most dreams are. It isn't until you wake up that you see all the plot holes.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Dream, Real, Plot

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.780, Simon and Schuster

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• Evil is simple and empty. Evil has no mysterious depths. We stare into a dark hole and fill it with our fears, but it is only a hole.

  Brent Weeks

  Dark, Simple, Evil

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• I collect flickering stars in old pickling jars, poking holes in the lids so they can breathe.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Stars, Jars, Breathe

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• Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.

  Aldous Huxley

  Squares, Social, Dangerous

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• there is a great choice that awaits us every day: whether we go around carving holes in others because we have been so painfully carved ourselves, or whether we let spirit play its song through our tender experience, enabling us to listen, as well, to the miraculous music coming through others.

  Mark Nepo

  Song, Play, Choices

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• How do I soothe his ache when mine was a big gaping hole large enough for both of us to fit in?

  Abbi Glines

  Fit, Enough, Bigs

  Abbi Glines (2014). “Fallen Too Far: A Rosemary Beach Novel”, p.215, Simon and Schuster

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• I think we crushed ourselves down over the centuries. Buried ourselves under greed and hate and whatever other sins we could find until our souls finally hit the rock bottom of the universe. And then they scraped a hole through it, into some ... darker place.

  Isaac Marion

  Hate, Thinking, Rocks

  Isaac Marion (2012). “Warm Bodies: A Novel”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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• Her best friend was gone and nobody understood that no amount of makeup, fresh air or shopping was going to fill the hole in her heart.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Husband, Heart, Makeup

  Cecelia Ahern (2013). “Cecelia Ahern 2-Book Bestsellers Collection: One Hundred Names, PS I Love You”, p.12, HarperCollins UK

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• I had a cousin once who lived in your dictionary, inside the binding, and there was a tiny hole which he used for a door, and it led out between trichotomy and trick. Now what do you think of that? It was only a few minutes walk to trigger, then over the page to trinity, trinket and trional, and there my cousin used to fall asleep.

  Janet Frame

  Cousin, Fall, Thinking

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• Now aren't you glad I made you take a bath?" Bill asked. "One less bottle of eau de reekette punching holes in l'ozone.

  Lauren Kate

  Ozone, Bottles, Bills

  Lauren Kate (2013). “The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection”, p.810, Delacorte Press

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• Careful, Mr. Spiro, guns are dangerous. Especially the end with the hole.

  Eoin Colfer

  Gun, Ends, Dangerous

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• Whether it was power they sought, or revenge, or love-well, those were all just different forms of hunger. The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it.

  Jodi Picoult

  Revenge, Different, Hunger

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

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• The only way to look at men is like they're electrons. They have all these charges sticking out, and they're always looking for a hole where they can put those charges.

  Candace Bushnell

  Men, Looks, Way

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• Imagine the clouds dripping Dig a hole in your garden to put them in

  Yoko Ono

  Garden, Clouds, Singers

  Twitter post from Jun 14, 2015

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• All my life, she gave to me a shovel and said, Fill these holes inside of me, Pari.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Said, Shovels

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.382, A&C Black

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• How can you be happy in this world? You have a hole in your heart. You have a gateway inside you to lands beyond the world you know. They will call you, as you grow.

  Neil Gaiman

  Heart, Land, World

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• I couldn't tell wether the hole that opened up inside me was from missing you or from the change of season

  Haruki Murakami

  Missing, Seasons Change, Seasons

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• This is the most profound spiritual truth I know: that even when we're most sure that love can't conquer all, it seems to anyway. It goes down into the rat hole with us, in the guise of our friends, and there it swells and comforts. It gives us second winds, third winds, hundredth winds.

  Anne Lamott

  Spiritual, Wind, Giving

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, Anchor

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• Everyone’s chest is a living room wall with awkwardly placed photographs hiding fist-shaped holes.

  Andrea Gibson

  Wall, Fists, Rooms

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• Little Alice fell d o w n the hOle, bumped her head and bruised her soul

  Lewis Carroll

  Soul, Littles, Bruised

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• There was, like, this black hole where the world used to be, and we were both falling toward it. What could we hold on to?

  Rick Yancey

  Fall, Black, World

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.60, Penguin

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