Holes Quotes - Page 8

• The irrational thoughts were the ones with the power to burn holes in your gut.

  Keith Ablow

  Irrational, Guts

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• We had to survive to remember. Otherwise everything we were would disappear. Those people we loved would fade as though we'd never loved them, as if they'd never walked and talked and burned, forgetting them was the real evil. That was the hole of darkness.

  Alice Hoffman

  Real, People, Evil

  Alice Hoffman (2007). “Incantation”, p.50, Hachette UK

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• I hope you never hear those words. Your mom. She died. They are different than other words. They are too big to fit in your ears. They belong to some strange, heavy, powerful language that pounds away at the side of your head, a wrecking ball coming at you again and again, until finally, the words crack a hole large enough to fit inside your brain. And in so doing, they split you apart.

  Mitch Albom

  Mom, Powerful, Brain

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• A sparrow lay dead on the backseat. She had found her way through a hole in the windscreen, tempted by some seat-sponge for her nest. She never found her way out. No one noticed her panicked car-window appeals. She died on the backseat, with her legs in the air. Like a joke.

  Arundhati Roy

  Air, Car, Legs

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.296, Penguin Books India

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• How many black holes have we been up close and personal with?" Kosta countered. "All sorts of odd things happen near the event horizon, from huge tidal forces to variations in time. Personally, I'm voting on it having to do with gravity, either a polarization of the fields themselves or else something related to the time differential." I didn't know physics had become a democracy," Hanan murmered.

  Timothy Zahn

  Voting, Black, Democracy

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• Alaska has long been a magnet for dreamers and misfits, people who think the unsullied enormity of the Last Frontier will patch all the holes in their loves. The bush is an unforgiving place, however, that care nothing for hope or longing.

  Jon Krakauer

  Thinking, Alaska, Long

  "Into the Wild". Book by Jon Krakauer, 1996.

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• Girls like her, my grandfather once warned me, girls like her turn into women with eyes like bullet holes and mouths made of knives. They are always restless. They are always hungry. They are bad news. They will drink you down like a shot of whisky. Falling in love with them is like falling down a flight of stairs. What no one told me, with all those warnings, is that even after you’ve fallen, even after you know how painful it is, you’d still get in line to do it again.

  Holly Black

  Love, Girl, Fall

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• When wiggling through a hole the world looks different than when scrubbed clean by the wiggle and looking back.

  Mark Nepo

  Wiggling, Different, Looks

  Mark Nepo (2013). “Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• Lassiter came in alone, likely because Doc Jane had returned to the Pit. And the angel was naked as a jaybird… and just frickin’ fine. No bullet holes, no scars, no contusions. “You keep looking at me like that and you’d better buy me dinner afterward.

  J.R. Ward

  Angel, Naked, Pits

  J.R. Ward (2012). “Lover Reborn: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.289, Penguin

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• Funny how you dig yourself into a hole by the teaspoon.

  Lionel Shriver

  Teaspoons

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.53, Counterpoint Press

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• It's an apathy so absolute that it's like a hole you might fall in.

  Lionel Shriver

  Fall, Apathy, Might

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.57, Counterpoint Press

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• He’s not your typical prince, more like a square peg in a round hole, kind of like me. He’s the sort of guy who wouldn’t mind reading side by side on a date.

  Jodi Picoult

  Reading, Squares, Guy

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• A girl's not a watermelon you plug a hole in to see if it's sweet.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Girl, Sweet, Plugs

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.148, Macmillan

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• Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. The basic of logic is the syllogism, consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion - thus: Major Premise: Sixty men can do a piece of work sixty times as quickly as one man. Minor Premise: One man can dig a post-hole in sixty seconds; Therefore- Conclusion: Sixty men can dig a post-hole in one second. This may be called syllogism arithmetical, in which, by combining logic and mathematics, we obtain a double certainty and are twice blessed.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Art, Blessed, Science

  "The Devil's Dictionary:". Book by Ambrose Bierce (p. 204), 2008.

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• When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd never stare long enough to get if they'd even just return your gaze, this, this is your revenge.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Revenge, Long, Details

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• [Gold] gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. It has no utility. Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head.

  Warren Buffett

  People, Gold, Would Be

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• Say the whole point of love is to try to get your fingers through the holes in the lover's mask. To get some kind of hold on the mask, and who cares how you do it.

  David Foster Wallace

  Love Is, Trying, Who Cares

  David Foster Wallace (2014). “Girl With Curious Hair”, p.30, Hachette UK

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• Where they couldn't pick holes in our arguments they would drive horses and carriages through my character.

  Julian Assange

  Horse, Character, Argument

  Julian Assange (2011). “Julian Assange: The Unauthorised Autobiography”, p.18, Canongate Books

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• I told you once before,” I said, the words husky from remembrance. “Everyone holds their sins close to their skin.” Fangs gleamed for an instant before Vlad bit into his wrist, pooling up two deep crimson holes. “Then come,” he said, holding it out. “And taste mine.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Two, Remembrance, Skins

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• From Santi's earthly tomb with demon's hole, 'Cross Rome the mystic elements unfold. The path of light is laid, the sacred test, Let angels guide you on your lofty quest.

  Dan Brown

  Angel, Light, Rome

  Dan Brown (2009). “Angels & Demons - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• But the absence of him is everywhere I look. It's like a huge hole has been punched through my chest.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Looks, New Moon, Twilight Movie

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• Well, let me tell you something, Caveman. You are here on account of one person. If it wasn't for that person, you wouldn't be here digging holes in the hot sun. You know who that person is?" "My no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather.

  Louis Sachar

  Dirty, Pigs, Digging A Hole

  Louis Sachar (2011). “Holes”, p.57, Yearling

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• Do not wait for the healing to arrive. It will never come. The holes will never leave or be filled with anything at all. But holes are interesting things.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Healing, Interesting, Waiting

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.99, Macmillan

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• I, however, like black. It is a color that makes me comfortable and the color with which I have the most experience. In the darkest darkness, all is black. In the deepest hole, all is black. In the terror of my Addicted mind, all is black. In the empty periods of my lost memory, all is black. I like black, goddammit, and I am going to give it its due.

  James Frey

  Memories, Color, Giving

  James Frey (2003). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.179, Rutgers University Press

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• Evolution is a theory with more holes than a Dutch dam of swiss cheese.

  Eoin Colfer

  Dams, Dutch, Cheese

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