"Holes" Quotes
A boy named Stanley Yelnats is sent to a mysterious juvenile detention camp where he unravels a family curse and the secrets behind why the boys are forced to dig holes.
young adult | 233 pages | Published in 1998
Quotes
If only, if only, the woodpecker sighs, the bark on the tree was as soft as the skies.
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.
The onions could make you cry, but the peppers could make you breathe fire.
I can fix that.
I'm not stupid. I just make a lot of mistakes.
I learned not to steal, not to fight, not to lie, and not to make excuses for my mistakes. But the most important thing I learned was that if you want to go and achieve something, you have to go and do it yourself.
I'll tell you one thing, if you spend your whole life being curious and in the end nothing is achieved, then all your curiosity will be for nothing. You'll be left with nothing.
You're not looking for anything, my dear, you're just running away.
They can fix anything. They can take a broken-down car and turn it into a brand-new car.
Sometimes, a person might tell a lie to make everything all right.





