Holes Quotes

“If only, if only," the woodpecker sighs,
"The bark on the tree was as soft as the skies."
While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely,
Crying to the moo-oo-oon,
"If only, If only.”
― Louis Sachar, Holes

“I'm not saying it's going to be easy. Nothing in life is easy. But that's no reason to give up. You'll be surprised what you can accomplish if you set your mind to it. After all, you only have one life, so you should try to make the most of it.”
― Louis Sachar

“I'm not stupid. I know everybody thinks I am. I just don't like answering their questions.”
― louis sachar, Holes

“We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“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, Holes

“Healey’s First Law Of Holes: When in one, stop digging.”
― Denis Healey

“Wherever he saw a hole he always wanted
to know the depth of it. To him this was important.”
― Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth

“Now you be careful in the real world" said Armpit " Not everyone is as nice as us.”
― Louis Sachar, Holes

“Shadows of cloud lurked in the water, like holes the sun forgot about.”
― Markus Zusak, Getting the Girl

“Silence fell like a hammer made of feathers. It left holes in the shape of the sound of the sea.”
― Terry Pratchett, Nation

“She wore a big maroon Harvard sweatshirt and jeans that were covered with marker stains and little holes, like she spent her free time poking them with a fork.”
― Rick Riordan, The Titan’s Curse

“How is digging a hole part of the process of getting out of one? The fact is, the people who can answer that question are so far down some hole that they couldn’t hear the question even if you shouted it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The oddity of our existence is that we are capable of digging holes deeper than we are capable of getting ourselves out of. The greatness of God is that He has a shovel long enough for every hole ever dug.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“There is no depth that exceeds the reach of the God who is, at this very moment, seeking you out in the holes that you have dug for yourself.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Yesterday I played a round of golf. I just kept hitting the ball in circles, but never getting it in the circles they call holes.”
― Jarod Kintz, The Lewis and Clark of The Ozarks

“Then he turned to Zero, who had been quietly digging in his hole since Stanley's return. Zero's hole was smaller than all the others.”
― Louis Sachar, Holes

“I’m not really an expert on the nature of holes. I just strongly feel that holes are begging to be filled (the penis is aware of this). And I don’t think a hole wants to be a hole. I think a hole wants to be something else.”
― Michael Vito Tosto, Elsewhere and Otherwise: Essays

“Reality is designed to keep people lost.”
― Michael Vito Tosto, Elsewhere and Otherwise: Essays

“If you have a hole within you, trying filling the hole in someone else. If you do, in the end there will be two less holes.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The landscape of the world is littered with holes dug by men in search of water for their souls. But it is the hole where the shovels were surrendered to God that mark the end of holes and the beginning of water.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I’d also toyed with calling him Caverat before that ‒ which I’ll explain in a minute.

Anyway, Twitch was the nickname of the kid that took Zero's place and who I named Z after when he ran away in Holes ‒ which is still my favorite book ever. Now that I think about it, it's probably my favorite movie too.

Not only that but my other cat’s name was X-Ray. He was mostly black but had several white markings that looked sorta like fuzzy bones ‒ with one in particular running down his left hind leg about where his tibia would show up in an actual x-ray.

So I probably would've called him X-Ray no matter what but it sure didn't hurt that it's the name of the leader of the kids at Camp Green Lake. I even considered Stanley before that ‒ who's the book’s main character and of course, the star of its’ movie. Before that that, I’d actually debated calling him Bob ‒ if you can believe it. But cats shouldn't have regular old people names as far as I'm concerned ‒ with maybe just a few exceptions. I decided that neither Bob ‒ which only came up in the first place because I like palindromes ‒ nor Stanley were one of 'em. Even besides the bone-like birthmarks making X-Ray the obvious choice.

To be honest, it was Nat's suggestion anyway.

Back to Stanley though, even though his nickname at Camp Green Lake was Caveman, I decided against Cave-cat right away. But it did seem to fit Twitch since he was hiding under the china cabinet and all. Another name I’d thought about before she brought up X-Ray was Yelnats ‒ which is Stanley's last name and the emordnilap of his first ‒ and plenty un-regular-old-people-like enough but as I pointed out at the time, we already had a Nat in the house who yells.

That made her laugh but it wasn't exactly true plus on top of it, I ended up having to admit that her idea was better all along.

By the way, if you didn’t know it, an emordnilap is the reverse of a word or phrase that isn't a nonsense string but also isn’t a palindrome ‒ which spells the same thing forwards and backwards. Other palindromes besides ‘Bob’ are 'refer'; ‘bird rib’; 'a nut for a jar of tuna’; ‘borrow or rob?’; ‘racecar’; ‘Yo banana boy!’; 'deified'; ‘Go Hang a Salami, I'm a Lasagna Hog’ ‒ or like I already half mentioned…

Stanley Yelnats.

Emordnilaps make a new one instead ‒ such as ‘live’ and ‘evil’; ‘lived’ and ‘devil’; ‘dog’ and ‘god’; ‘stressed’ and ‘desserts’; ‘stops’ and ‘spots’; or ‘keep reward’ and ‘drawer peek’.

As you’ve probably figured out already, ‘emordnilap’ is the emordnilap of ‘palindrome’ so therefore ‘palindrome’ is not a palindrome.”
― Monte Souder

“What she hadn't realized was that although the cake had been intended to represent the book's theme, it nevertheless lacked specific references or related symbolism connected to the story itself. Rather than appearing desert-like ‒ as Camp Green Lake had been ‒ it was highlighted by a solid green rectangle of icing abutting a thin strip of greenish-brown streaks above it.

It was a yard ‒ their back yard ‒ behind which an unkempt field with dense patches of slouching grass and clusters of hearty weeds were interspersed among barren areas of dirt and sand that had persisted for decades. In contrast to and serving as an adjacent reminder of the verdant Lansing property having appeared likewise but half of one ago ‒ while currently being much larger than the uppermost border of any cake could be reasonably expected to portray.”
― Monte Souder

“The way to quit digging holes is to get rid of the shovels and stay away from the dirt.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The extended field was sufficiently barren and sandy as to prevent recently upturned areas from being overly obvious but to make sure they began digging decoy holes in surrounding areas and then wait several days before resuming the game. Even this eventually became unnecessary as the field soon began to appear as if it had suffered a series of attacks by a battalion of moles.

Additional deceptions employed to preserve the challenge were to cover freshly dug areas with leaves and sand; or dig out large clumps of grass at the start, replace them at the end, then re-situate each in their proper spot, or as Iggy put it, “Sorta like Roy Catalina adjusting his toupee before a night at the opera.”
― Monte Souder

“Loneliness carves my heart full of holes.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Socks were meant for holes.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“I might have my holes, but the healing of today means that they will be smaller in every tomorrow, including the one that is now only hours away.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Here was a whole life Beth had missed, a hole where a life should have been. But then, he thought, the universe was made up of holes--was it so terrible to be swept into one? After all. The holes were the black between stars, between constellations. It was holes that were the fabric of the galaxy.”
― Lydia Millet, How the Dead Dream

“Filling a hole in a manner that doesn’t address how it was dug is to fill a hole that is certain to remain empty.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“You're from Florida. There's got to be more holes to hell in Florida than any other state.”
― T. Kingfisher, The Hollow Places