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“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
“The Warden Walker: [while all the boys are digging out a deep trench, Armpit tries to dupe the Warden into thinking that he has found something which is obviously nothing more than a recently broken TV knob] Are you trying to be funny, or do you just think I’m stupid?

Armpit: No, ma’am. I wasn’t trying to be funny.

The Warden Walker: Excuse me?

Mr. Sir: You know something, Armpit? Your little joke has just cost you a week of shower privileges.”
— Marion Sevillo "Mr. Sir", Holes
Tagged: Funny, Stupid, shower privilege
“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. 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
“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
“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
“Mr. Sir: What’re we gonna do?

The Warden Walker: You’ll do as I say. [puts her hat on and leaves]

Mr. Pendanski: What did she say?

Mr. Sir: Not much.

Mr. Pendanski: What do we do?

Mr. Sir: You’ll do as I say. [puts his hat on and leaves]

Mr. Pendanski: But you didn’t say anything, either.”
— Marion Sevillo "Mr. Sir", Holes
Tagged: do as i say
“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 lake goes around for miles. You, and your children, and your children’s children, will dig for a hundred years, and you will never find it. [she picks up a yellow lizard] Start digging, Trout. [She puts the lizard to her arm. It bites her, and she dies, laughing softly]”
— Katherine "Kissin' Kate" Barlow, Holes
Tagged: lake, Children, poisonous lizard
“Trout Walker: [Trout appears, pointing a rifle at Kate] You got five seconds to tell me where you buried the loot!

Kissin’ Kate Barlow: I’ve been waitin’ for you, Trout...[she draws her pistol and aims. Trout hesitates, but then she lowers it] I ain’t gonna kill you. [she throws the gun down, and Trout’s wife picks it up]

Trout Walker: Where’s the loot?

Kissin’ Kate Barlow: There ain’t no loot.

Trout Walker: Don’t give me that! You robbed every bank from Hell to Houston!

Linda Walker: We saw you heading back with a shovel, Miss Katherine!

Kissin’ Kate Barlow: Linda Miller? Is that you?

Linda Walker: I’ve been Linda Walker for the past thirteen years!

Trout Walker: One!

Kissin’ Kate Barlow: Aw, Linda, you were such a good student...you must have married him for his money.

Trout Walker: Two!

Linda Walker: Well, it’s all gone now! It dried up with the lake. Hasn’t rained here since the day they killed Sam! Now you better tell him what he wants, he’s a desperate man!

Trout Walker: Three!

Kissin’ Kate Barlow: Go on, kill me.

Trout Walker: [smiles crookedly] I ain’t gonna kill you. But by the time I’m finished with you, you gonna wish you was dead.

Kissin’ Kate Barlow: [chuckles] I’ve been wishing I was dead for a long time.”
— Katherine "Kissin' Kate" Barlow, Holes
Tagged: loot, Houston, Bank, Threats
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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, Holes
Tagged: Never Give Up, Goals, Hard Work
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