A Quote by Laurie Halse Anderson

I was good at digging holes. It was the rest of life I sucked at. — © Laurie Halse Anderson
I was good at digging holes. It was the rest of life I sucked at.
It is a good thing to follow the First Law of Holes: if you are in one, stop digging.
It had struck me that the world was full of holes, holes which you could fall into, never to be seen again. I couldn't understand the difference between disappearance and death. Both seemed the same to me, both left holes. Holes in your heart holes in your life.
We who are interested in relative truth have to keep digging for it and not let ourselves be sucked under.
The first rule of holes: When you're in one stop digging.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging!
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.
I was a manual labourer. I figured out really early on that the value of my life could be determined by my hourly rate as a manual labourer digging holes.
The first rule of holes is when you're in one, stop digging. When you're in three, bring a lot of shovels.
Well, let me tell you something, Caveman. You are here on account of one person. If it wasn't for that person, you wouldn't be here digging holes in the hot sun. You know who that person is?" "My no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather.
A good back makes his own holes. Anybody can run where the holes are.
Digging a ditch where madness gives a bit Digging a ditch where silence lives Digging a ditch for when I'm old Digging this ditch my story's told Where all these troubles weigh down on me will rise ..... Where all these questions spinning round my head will die
I got sucked real deep into the fame and the money. I was a bachelor and I got sucked into a bad life of partying.
I'm a lucky boy! I could be holding a gun in Afghanistan. There's boys out there doing what they've got to do, and there's people digging holes, and there's people driving buses. And there's nothing wrong with that.
I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don't like tidying up the garden afterwards.
It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.
Surfing is kind of a good metaphor for the rest of life. The extremely good stuff - chocolate and great sex and weddings and hilarious jokes - fills a minute portion of an adult lifespan. The rest of life is the paddling: work, paying bills, flossing, getting sick, dying.
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