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Louis Sachar Quotes

Total quotes: 40
“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
“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
“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
“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
“I am surrounded by cow turds.”
— Louise Walker the Warden, Holes
Tagged: cow turds
“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
“Mr. Pendanski: Good morning, Theodore!

Armpit: Man, it’s Armpit! I don’t know no fool named Theodore.

Mr. Pendanski: Well, I don’t know no fool named Armpit. [Hands him water] Here’s your water, whoever-you-are.”
— Dr. Pendanski, Holes
Tagged: proper name, Fool
“Is that all you jackasses can dig?”
— Louise Walker the Warden, Holes
Tagged: jackasses, belittlement
“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
“But don’t forget who you really are. And I’m not talking about your so-called real name. All names are made up by someone else, even the one your parents gave you. You know who you really are. When you’re alone at night, looking up at the stars, or maybe lying in your bed in total darkness, you know that nameless person inside you.”
— Louis Sachar, Stanley Yelnats Survival Guide to Camp Green Lake
Tagged: true self, Be yourself
“Magnet: Hey. Maybe it’ll rain for 40 days and 40 nights, like it did in The Bible.

Armpit: Yeah, maybe we’ll have to build an ark.

Squid: We’ll get two of every animal...

X-Ray: Yeah, two scorpions, two rattlesnakes, two yellow spotted lizards all that.”
— José "Magnet", Holes
Tagged: Noah's ark, The Bible, two of every kind, scorpions, Rattlesnakes, yellow spotted lizards
“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
“Stanley: Man how did she know my name?

Zig-Zag: Oh, man, she’s got the whole place wired. Oh yeah, she has these little cameras and microphones all over the place. In the tent, in the rec room, in the showers.

Stanley: They’re not in the showers.

Squid: Oh don’t listen to him. I read his file. It said he suffers from, um, oh, acute paranoia.

Magnet: So I guess that means she watches me every day, huh.

Armpit: Man, he said cameras and microphones, not microscopes.”
— Ricky "Zigzag", Holes
Tagged: Paranoia, Cameras, microphones
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