Holes Quotes - Page 11

• The heart is a place with worm holes made by feelings you aren't supposed to have but do.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Heart, Feelings, Made

  Elizabeth Scott (2010). “Grace”, p.12, Penguin

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• A warp," Nita whispered. "A tunnel through space-time. Are you a white hole?" It stopped bobbing, stared at her as if she had said something derogatory. (Do I look like a hole?)

  Diane Duane

  Tunnels, White, Space

  Diane Duane (2003). “So You Want to Be a Wizard”, p.91, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Really love him, I mean," Geilie persisted. "Not just to bed him; I know you want that, and he does too. They all do. But do you love him?" Did I love him? Beyond the urges of the flesh? The hole had the dark anonymity of the confessional, and a soul on the verge of death had no time for lies. "Yes," I said, and laid my head back on my knees. It was silent in the hole for some time, and I hovered once more on the verge of sleep, when I heard her speak once more, as though to herself. "So it's possible," she said thoughtfully.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Lying, Mean, Sleep

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.408, Dell

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• Science has revealed a universe that is vast, ancient, violent, strange, and beautiful, a universe of almost infinite variety and possibility one in which time can end in a black hole, and conscious beings can evolve from a soup of minerals.

  Leonard Mlodinow

  Beautiful, Black, Soup

  Deepak Chopra, Leonard Mlodinow (2011). “War of the Worldviews: Where Science and Spirituality Meet -- and Do Not”, p.12, Harmony

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• It was a hobbit hole, and that means comfort

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Mean, Comfort, Great Hobbit

  The Hobbit ch. 1 (1937)

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• 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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• He was losing her incrementally. It might be a few stray hairs listless on the pillow, or the crescents of bitten fingernails tossed behind the headboard, or a dark shape dissolving in soap. As a net is no more than holes tied together, they were bonded by what was no longer there." (ARC p. 63)

  Anthony Marra

  Dark, Hair, Together

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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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• 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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