Holes Quotes - Page 8

• The Crone, the Reaper... She is the Dark Moon, what you don't see coming at you, what you don't get away with, the wind that whips the spark across the fire line. Chance, you could say, or, what's scarier still: the intersection of chance with choices and actions made before. The brush that is tinder dry from decades of drought, the warming of the earth's climate that sends the storms away north, the hole in the ozone layer. Not punishment, not even justice, but consequence.

  Starhawk

  Dark, Moon, Fire

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• Maybe there's nothing impossible tonight. We're down the hole to Wonderland, and no White Rabbit to guide us." If I remember correctly, the White Rabbit was an unreliable guide, anyway.

  Dean Koontz

  White, Rabbits, Wonderland

  Dean Koontz (2007). “The Taking: A Novel”, p.80, Bantam

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• It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt, It lies behind stars and under hills, And empty holes it fills, It comes first and follows after, Ends life, kills laughter.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Stars, Laughter, Lying

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.46, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• ...wordless conditioning is crude and wholesale; cannot bring home the finer distinctions, cannot inculcate the more complex courses of behavior. For that there must be words, but words without reason... Not so much like drops of water, though water, it is true, can wear holes in the hardest granite; rather, drops of liquid sealing-wax, drops that adhere, encrust, incorporate themselves with what they fall on, till finally the rock is all one scarlet blob.

  Aldous Huxley

  Fall, Home, Rocks

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• The secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Secret, Middle, Happy Things

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Do you even know what hammerd means?" I asked. "Something to do with drinking your American beer out of a hole in the side of a can?" Dave reached over and slapped him on the shin. "Close enough.

  Jennifer Rardin

  Drinking, Mean, Beer

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• So he started to climb out of the hole. He pulled with his front paws, and pushed with his back paws, and in a little while his nose was in the open again ... and then his ears ... and then his front paws ... and then his shoulders ... and then-'Oh, help!' said Pooh, 'I'd better go back,' 'Oh bother!' said Pooh, 'I shall have to go on.' 'I can't do either!' said Pooh, 'Oh help and bother!

  A. A. Milne

  Noses, Ears, Goes On

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• I was good at digging holes. It was the rest of life I sucked at.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Digging A Hole, Rest Of Life, Digging

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Twisted”, p.31, Scholastic UK

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• Make the doors upon a woman's wit, and it will out at the casement; shut that, and 'twill out at the key-hole; stop that, 'twill fly with the smoke out at the chimney.

  William Shakespeare

  Keys, Doors, Chimneys

  1599-1600 Rosalind, in disguise, toOrlando. AsYou Like It, act 4, sc.1, l.153-4.

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• And that, I suppose, is what I'd been trying to tell my mother that day: that her faith in justice and rationality was misplaced, that we couldn't overcome after all, that all the education and good intentions in the world couldn't help you plug up the holes in the universe or give you the power to change its blind, mindless course.

  Barack Obama

  Mother, Giving, Justice

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams From My Father”, p.96, Canongate Books

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• You don't become an 'artist' unless you've got something missing somewhere. Blaise Pascal called it a God-shaped hole. Everyone's got one but some are blacker and wider than others. It's a feeling of being abandoned,cut adrift in space and time-sometimes following the loss of a loved one. You can never completely fill that hole-you can try with songs,family,faith and by living a full life...but when things are silent, you can still hear the hissing of what's missing.

  Bono

  Song, Cutting, Loss

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• Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Memories, Made, Filled

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• And he don't know...that I dug my key into the side of his pretty little souped up 4 wheel drive, carved my name into his leather seats. I took a Louisville slugger to both headlights, slashed a hole in all 4 tires...Maybe, next time he'll think before he cheats.

  Carrie Underwood

  Thinking, Names, Keys

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• A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed, cut holes in it, and called it a human being. Since then, it's been wailing a tender agony of parting, never mentioning the skill that gave it life as a flute

  Rumi

  Cutting, Agony, Skills

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• Paintings are seldom guilty and often framed for crimes they did not commit. Some cover holes-holes in walls, holes in lives. Some make holes-in wallets, holes in hearts...in negative space.

  Marilyn Manson

  Wall, Heart, Space

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• You can define a net two ways, depending on your point of view. Normally you would say it is a meshed instrument designed to catch fish. But you could, with no great injury to logic, reverse the image and define the net as a jocular lexicographer once did: he called it a collection of holes tied together with string.

  Julian Barnes

  Views, Two, Together

  Julian Barnes (1985). “Flaubert's parrot”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• The Nothing is spreading," groaned the first. "It's growing and growing, there's more of it every day, if it's possible to speak of more nothing. All the others fled from Howling Forest in time, but we didn't want to leave our home. The Nothing caught us in our sleep and this is what it did to us." "Is it very painful?" Atreyu asked. "No," said the second bark troll, the one with the hole in his chest. "You don't feel a thing. There's just something missing. And once it gets hold of you, something more is missing every day. Soon there won't be anything left of us.

  Michael Ende

  Sleep, Home, Missing

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• There's a hole in the world like a great black pit and the vermin of the world inhabit it and its morals aren't worth what a pig could spit and it goes by the name of London. At the top of the hole sit the privileged few Making mock of the vermin in the lonely zoo turning beauty to filth and greed... I too have sailed the world and seen its wonders, for the cruelty of men is as wonderous as Peru but there's no place like London!

  Stephen Sondheim

  Lonely, Zoos, Men

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• The Inuit say that the stars are holes in heaven. And every time we see the people we loved shining through, we know they're happy.

  Jodi Picoult

  Stars, People, Shining

  Jodi Picoult (2001). “Salem Falls”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• I hated leaving a hole in the smoking world, and so I recruited someone to take my place. People have given me a lot of grief, but I'm pretty sure that after high school, this girl would have started anyway, especially if she chose the army over community college.

  David Sedaris

  Girl, Grief, School

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• But Gregor understood easily that it was not only consideration for him which prevented their moving, for he could easily have been transported in a suitable crate with a few air holes; what mainly prevented the family from moving was their complete hopelessness and the thought that they had been struck by a misfortune as none of their relatives and acquaintances had ever been hit.

  Franz Kafka

  Moving, Air, Hopelessness

  Franz Kafka (1972). “The Metamorphosis”

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• Some people, they can't just move on, you know, mourn and cry and be done with it. Or at least seem to be. But for me... I don't know. I didn't want to fix it, to forget. It wasn't something that was broken. It's just...something that happened. And like that hole, I'm just finding ways, every day, of working around it. Respecting and remembering and getting on at the same time.

  Sarah Dessen

  Moving, Broken, People

  "The Truth About Forever". Book by Sarah Dessen, 2004.

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• The earth for us is a place to live in, where we must put up with sights, with sounds, with smells, too, by Jove! - breathe dead hippo, so as to speak, and not be contaminated. And there, don't you see? your strength comes in, the faith in your ability for the digging of unostentatious holes to bury the stuff in - your power of devotion, not to yourself, but to an obscure, back-breaking business.

  Joseph Conrad

  Smell, Sight, Sound

  Joseph Conrad (2004). “Heart of Darkness”, p.62, Variocity

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• It was the month of May and there was warm sunshine dripping through the holes between the clouds, like the sky was a broken blue bowl and a child was trying to keep honey in it.

  Chris Cleave

  Children, Sunshine, Clouds

  Chris Cleave (2010). “Little Bee: A Novel”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• Without thinking, I knelt in the grass, like someone meaning to pray. When I tried to stand again, I couldn't move, my legs were utterly rigid. Does grief change you like that? Through the birches, I could see the pond. The sun was cutting small white holes in the water. I got up finally; I walked down to the pond. I stood there, brushing the grass from my skirt, watching myself, like a girl after her first lover turning slowly at the bathroom mirror, naked, looking for a sign. But nakedness in women is always a pose. I was not transfigured. I would never be free.

  Louise Glück

  Girl, Grief, Moving

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