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Louis Sachar Quotes

Total quotes: 52
“To me, a man is someone who is brave enough to love, and let himself be loved.”
— Louis Sachar, Small Steps
Tagged: Man, Brave, To Love, be loved, Love
“You’re responsible for yourself. You messed up your life, and it’s up to you to fix it. No one else is going to do it for you — for any of you.”
— Louis Sachar, Holes
Tagged: Responsibility
“I’m not stupid. I know everybody thinks I am. I just don’t like answering their questions.”
— Louis Sachar, Holes
Tagged: Life, Philosophy
“Mr. Sir: There’s lizards, hot sun, and rattlesnakes.

Stanley: Rattlesnakes?

Mr. Sir: If you don’t bother them they won’t bother you and ya won’t get bitten and die. Usually.”
— Marion Sevillo "Mr. Sir", Holes
Tagged: Lizards, hot sun, Rattlesnakes
“Zig-Zag: Say, I didn’t know Marion was a man’s name.

Mr. Sir: It ain’t.”
— Marion Sevillo "Mr. Sir", Holes
Tagged: marion, gender-neutral names
“Mr. Pendanski: No one cares about Hector Zeroni.

Stanley: I do.”
— Dr. Pendanski, Holes
Tagged: Apathy
“I’m not stupid, I know everyone thinks I am, I just don’t like answering stupid questions.”
— Hector "Zero" Zeroni, Holes
Tagged: Stupid, stupid questions
“Mr. Sir: All life begins with water. So think of it this way; I’m givin’ you life. Say thank you.

Stanley: Thank you, Mr. Sir.”
— Marion Sevillo "Mr. Sir", Holes
Tagged: Water, Life, Thank You
“Stanley: Look, it says KB.

Zig-Zag: Yeah...yeah that’s Keith Barrenger.

Squid: Who?

Zig-Zag: He was in my math class.”
— Ricky "Zigzag", Holes
Tagged: Abbreviations, math class
“[singing] You got to go and dig those holes. With broken hands and withered souls. Emancipated from all you know. You got to go and dig those holes.”
— Ricky "Zigzag", Holes
Tagged: Emancipation, ditch digging
“Mr. Pendanski: D-I-G. What does that spell?

Zero: [takes shovel and whacks Mr. Pendanski across the face with it] DIG.”
— Hector "Zero" Zeroni, Holes
Tagged: Shovel, Literal
“Stanley: You know what I keep thinkin’ of?

Zero: What?

Stanley: How fine this Mary Lou must’ve looked like in a bikini.”
— Hector "Zero" Zeroni, Holes
Tagged: Bikini
“The Warden Walker: Stanley, won’t you just open it? Just let me see what’s inside it, please!

Stanley: Excuse me?”
— Louise Walker the Warden, Holes
Tagged: excuse me?
“Stanley: Where’s a person go to the bathroom around here?

Magnet: Pick a hole, any hole.”
— José "Magnet", Holes
Tagged: bathroom, Holes
“It smells like puke from a mule been ruminating on asparagus for two weeks.”
— Dr. Pendanski, Holes
Tagged: puke, Mule, Asparagus
“You should go to America. That’s where my son is. That’s where your future is, not Myra Menke. Her head’s as empty as a flowerpot.”
— Madame Zeroni, Holes
Tagged: America, Future, Flowerpot
“This is my special nail polish. I make it myself. You want to know my secret ingredient? Rattlesnake venom. I just love what it does to the coloring. It’s perfectly harmless...when it’s dry.”
— Louise Walker the Warden, Holes
Tagged: Nail Polish, rattlesnake venom
“Sam: Is something wrong?

Kissin’ Kate Barlow: Oh, Sam, my heart is breaking.

Sam: I can fix that.”
— Katherine "Kissin' Kate" Barlow, Holes
Tagged: Broken Heart
“The Warden Walker: How about you dig, and Caveman can fill the canteens? So what do you want to do?

Mr. Pendanski: I’ll fill the canteens.”
— Louise Walker the Warden, Holes
Tagged: canteens
“Zero: What do you think’s up there?

Stanley: I don’t know, a great big Frosty-Freeze?

Zero: Good, ’cause I could use a hot fudge sundae.”
— Hector "Zero" Zeroni, Holes
Tagged: hot fudge sundae, frosty-freeze
“If only, if only, the woodpecker sighs, / The bark on the tree was as soft as the skies. / The wolf waits below, hungry and lonely, / And cries to the moon, / If only if only.”
— Madame Zeroni, Holes
Tagged: Songs, Woodpecker, Tree, Wolf, Moon
“Mr. Sir: There ain’t nothing down there. We woulda found it by now.

Mr. Pendanski: I wouldn’t tell the queen bee that.

Mr. Sir: I ain’t on stupid pills.”
— Marion Sevillo "Mr. Sir", Holes
Tagged: queen bee, stupid pills
“Mr. Sir: Stanley Yelnats...the Fourth?

Stanley: Everyone in my family names their son Stanley, ‘cause it’s Yelnats backwards. It’s this little...tradition.”
— Marion Sevillo "Mr. Sir", Holes
Tagged: Tradition, palindrome
“You Girl Scouts want to hear a story? Once upon a time there was a magical place where it never rained. The end. [snickers scornfully]”
— Marion Sevillo "Mr. Sir", Holes
Tagged: Girl Scouts, fairy tales
“Stanley: I feel really awkward with you reading over my shoulder like that, so...

Zero: I can’t read.”
— Hector "Zero" Zeroni, Holes
Tagged: Illiterate
“Stanley: I stole a pair of shoes.

Squid: From a store or were they on someone’s feet?

Zig-Zag: No, he killed the guy first, just left out that little detail, huh?”
— Ricky "Zigzag", Holes
Tagged: sneaker theft, Murder
“You take a bad boy, make him dig holes all day in the hot sun, it turns him into a good boy. That’s our philosophy here at Camp Green Lake.”
— Marion Sevillo "Mr. Sir", Holes
Tagged: Bad Boy, Discipline, hot sun, summer camp
“They all have their little nicknames; however, I prefer to use the names their parents gave them, the names society will recognize them by.”
— Dr. Pendanski, Holes
Tagged: proper name, Nick, Parents, Society
“If you forget to come back for Madame Zeroni, you and your family will be cursed for always and eternity.”
— Madame Zeroni, Holes
Tagged: Curse, witch, Family
“[about the dog he stole] I would have made it out, too...if my pocket didn’t start barkin’.”
— José "Magnet", Holes
Tagged: smuggling
“Mr. Pendanski: You are here on account of one person; do you know who that one person is?

Stanley: Yeah, my no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather, that’s who it is.

Mr. Pendanski: No, you.”
— Dr. Pendanski, Holes
Tagged: Mistaken Identity
“Yeah, keep running! There ain’t gonna be no Yelnats the Fifth.”
— Marion Sevillo "Mr. Sir", Holes
Tagged: Palindromes, Legacy
“Zero: You know, those stars look like a shovel to me.

Stanley: Exactly...Hector, I feel lucky.

Zero: [laughing] The onions have gone to your head.

Stanley: What do you say we dig one more hole?”
— Hector "Zero" Zeroni, Holes
Tagged: Onions, Shovel
“Mr. Pendanski: Stanley, if you’ve got any questions, just ask Theodore. Theodore will be your mentor. Got that, Theodore?

Armpit: Yeah, man. Whatever, dude.

Mr. Pendanski: I’m depending on you. It should be no labor to be nice to your neighbor.”
— Dr. Pendanski, Holes
Tagged: Mentor, Questions, Be Nice
“Zero: Did they have red X’s on them?

Squid: You got Zero to talk.

Armpit: Hey, yo—what else can you do, Zero?

[Zero looks at his food]

Stanley: Yeah. Yeah they did.”
— Hector "Zero" Zeroni, Holes
Tagged: Mute
“This ain’t no kindergarteners in the sandbox.”
— Marion Sevillo "Mr. Sir", Holes
Tagged: kindergarteners, adults, sandbox, Children
“Magnet: Nobody messes with the Caveman.

X-Ray: Did you see the Caveman back there?

Stanley: I don’t wanna mess with anybody.

Zig-Zag: Come on, Caveman.

Stanley: ...I’m Caveman?

Zero: Better than Barfbag.”
— Ricky "Zigzag", Holes
Tagged: cave man, barf bag
“Everything turns to callous eventually. That’s life.”
— Marion Sevillo "Mr. Sir", Holes
Tagged: callous, Negative, Jaded
“He’s not going to take it. Come here—eat the cookie.”
— Ricky "Zigzag", Holes
Tagged: Cookie
“The early mole digs the deepest hole.”
— Dr. Pendanski, Holes
Tagged: Mole, Hole, early bird
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