Holes Quotes - Page 19

• 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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• Let me make this real simple. You will not break me. The hole will not break me. I will not break. I will not be broken.

  Brent Weeks

  Real, Simple, Broken

  Brent Weeks (2009). “The Way Of Shadows: Book 1 of the Night Angel”, p.409, Hachette UK

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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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• I wish I was at home in my nice hole by the fire, with the kettle just beginning to sing!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Nice, Home, Fire

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• What was I supposed to be, growing in your womb -- assuming it was even in our womb that I was conceived? A seed of hope? A ticket purchased to ferry you from the dark? A patch for that hole you carried in your heart? If so, then I wasn't enough. I wasn't nearly enough. I was no balm to your pain, only another dead end, another burden, and you must have seen that early on. You must have realized it. But what could you do? You couldn't go down to the pawnshop and sell me.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Pain, Heart, Dark

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• And beyond the timeless meadows and emerald pastures, the rabbit holes and moss-covered oak and rowan trees and the "slippy sloppy" houses of frogs, the woodland-scented wind rushed between the leaves and blew around the gray veil that dipped below the fells, swirling up in a mist, blurring the edges of the distant forest. (View from Windermere in the Lake District)

  Susan Branch

  Lakes, Views, Wind

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• Clinical psychology tells us arguably that trauma is the ultimate killer.Memories r not recycled like atoms and particles in quantum physics. they can be lost forever. It’s sort of like my past is an unfinished painting and as the artist of that painting,I must fill in all the ugly holes and make it beautiful again.

  Lady Gaga

  Beautiful, Memories, Past

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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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• There is a serious discrepancy between what we really wants, and what we usually do to get what we think we want. What we really want is to fill the hole inside and become complete, and what we do is look for success and growth outside.

  Ilchi Lee

  Thinking, Discrepancies Between, Growth

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• But wishes were empty thoughts, cast down a dark hole. They didn't come true unless you worked for them. I'd learned that about the world, if nothing more.

  Ann Aguirre

  Dark, Wish, World

  Ann Aguirre (2013). “Horde”, p.60, Macmillan

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• Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Positive, Attitude

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• Jump in a hole without looking, and there'll be a snake in it every time.

  Robert Jordan

  Time, Snakes

  Robert Jordan (2016). “The Wheel of Time: Books 1–4”, p.754, Macmillan

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• I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Patience, Memorable

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