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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• Y eso, supongo, es lo que había intentado decirle a mi madre aquel día: que su fe en la justicia y la racionalidad estaba fuera de lugar, que no podíamos vencer después de todo, que toda la educación y las buenas intenciones del mundo no podían ayudarte a tapar los agujeros del universo ni darte el poder de cambiar su curso ciego y sin sentido.

  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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• Una red se puede definir de dos maneras, según el punto de vista. Normalmente se diría que es un instrumento de malla diseñado para capturar peces. Pero también se podría, sin perjuicio de la lógica, invertir la imagen y definir la red como lo hizo un lexicógrafo jocoso: un conjunto de agujeros atados con una cuerda.

  Julian Barnes

  Vistas, Dos, Juntos

  Julian Barnes (1985). "El loro de Flaubert", 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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• Los inuit dicen que las estrellas son agujeros en el cielo. Y cada vez que vemos brillar a las personas que amamos, sabemos que son felices.

  Jodi Picoult

  Estrellas, Gente, Brillando

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

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• Odiaba dejar un hueco en el mundo de los fumadores, así que recluté a alguien para que ocupara mi lugar. La gente me ha echado la bronca, pero estoy bastante seguro de que, después del instituto, esta chica habría empezado de todos modos, sobre todo si hubiera elegido el ejército en vez del colegio comunitario.

  David Sedaris

  Niña, Duelo, Escuela

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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). "La metamorfosis"

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• Algunas personas, no pueden simplemente seguir adelante, ya sabes, lamentarse y llorar y acabar con ello. O al menos eso parece. Pero para mí... no lo sé. No quería arreglarlo, olvidar. No era algo que estuviera roto. Es sólo... algo que pasó. Y como ese agujero, estoy encontrando maneras, cada día, de trabajar alrededor de él. Respetar y recordar y seguir adelante al mismo tiempo.

  Sarah Dessen

  Moving, Broken, People

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

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• La tierra para nosotros es un lugar para vivir, donde debemos soportar vistas, sonidos, olores, también, ¡por Júpiter! - respirar hipopótamo muerto, por así decirlo, y no contaminarse. Y ahí, ¿no lo ves? entra tu fuerza, la fe en tu capacidad para cavar agujeros poco ostentosos en los que enterrar las cosas, tu poder de devoción, no a ti mismo, sino a un negocio oscuro y agotador.

  Joseph Conrad

  Olfato, vista, oído

  Joseph Conrad (2004). "El corazón de las tinieblas", p.62, Variocity

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• Era el mes de mayo y había un cálido sol que goteaba por los agujeros entre las nubes, como si el cielo fuera un cuenco azul roto y un niño intentara guardar miel en él.

  Chris Cleave

  Niños, sol, nubes

  Chris Cleave (2010). "Abejita: 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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