Holden's Quotes

#1. She loved him in a deep and singular way, almost as though God had crafted one heart in heaven, then split it between Holden's body and hers, fating her to a never-ending longing to be with him, or a fractional life without him. She

Katy Regnery

#2. Holden's thoughts: "I left my house not quite sure what happened. I should have never let Baker and Liv become friends. Should have know they would team up on me. Now, I was suddenly the errand boy -- that was Baker's job. Damn it, I hated Christmas.

Liz Schulte

#3. Holden's point of view: 'I didn't say anything for the rest of the trip to Barker's house. Quintus kept talking until I could feel a vein twitching in my forehead. I had never been so happy to see Baker in my life than when his house finally came into view.

Liz Schulte

#4. Lopez reached into his pocket, took out a small packet of white lozenges, and popped one into his mouth. He didn't offer one to Holden. Lopez's pupils contracted to tiny points as he sucked the lozenge. Focus drugs. He'd be watching every tic of Holden's face during questioning. Tough to lie to.

James S.A. Corey

#5. We're not making any official statements, especially when James Holden's in the room. No offense, but your track record for blurting information at inopportune moments is the stuff of legend.

James S.A. Corey

#6. The keel-mounted rail gun pushed the whole ship backward in a solid mathematical relationship to the mass of the two-kilo tungsten round moving at a measurable fraction of c. Newton's third law expressed as violence. Holden's

James S.A. Corey

#7. Somebody's on a man hunt. And she's accepting all applicants with a big wallet, a penis, and a beating heart. Good luck with that.

Kim Holden

#8. Life's most important questions
Should always be written in ALL CAPS

Kim Holden

#9. And my heart shatters for the second time today. It's blown apart into so many pieces, the shrapnel spread so far and wide, I know what remains will never fit back together again. Puzzles don't work when you only have half of the pieces. Same goes for hearts. I

Kim Holden

#10. Sure," Holden said. "I just needed to feel sorry for myself for a minute. Let's go get killed by the mafia." He

James S.A. Corey

#11. What is it about coffee? It's the perfect beverage. It warms me, body and soul. And it makes me insanely happy.

Kim Holden

#12. It's orange down low near the horizon, and pink on top, like the sky's blushing as it forces out the sun.

Kim Holden

#13. I never believed I wouldn't make it - and perhaps that's why I've always found work. I've always stuck at everything I've ever done. I absolutely won't give up.

Amanda Holden

#14. Nothing that'll kill us sounded good, but Holden felt a pang for his coffeemaker. Alex,

James S.A. Corey

#15. Holden shot him in the throat. Somewhere in his brain stem, Detective Miller nodded in approval.

James S.A. Corey

#16. And that's when I realized that being attracted to someone happens at a visceral level. It happens when you see and feel the other person's heart and your heart twinges in your chest in reaction.

Kim Holden

#17. Tomorrow you may look up and see me as a lawyer, a doctor, business executive,teacher - or WHATEVER I BELIEVE I CAN BE !My story isn't about nice handles or quickness on the court ,but about HARD WORK, PERSEVERANCE, and FAITH! I know God's blessings ,I can accomplish anything and i mean ANYTHING!!!

Jon-Robert Holden

#18. Life ain't about coasting. It's about pushin' the damn gas pedal all the way to the floor. Same goes for fun and love, no coasting. Pedal to the floor.

Kim Holden

#19. I have too much doubt. It's the bastard child of fear. I hate fear. So doubt sidles up next to determination in my heart. It doesn't outweigh it. They coexist.

Kim Holden

#20. Love is strange when you think about it. It comes out of nowhere. There's no logic to it. It's not methodical. It's not scientific. It's pure emotion and passion. And emotion and passion can be beautiful, because they fuel love. I'm

Kim Holden

#21. You will be personally responsible for the single deadliest screwup in the history of humankind, and I'm on a ship with Jim fucking Holden, so the bar's not low." The

James S.A. Corey

#22. I don't understand," Holden said. "If you didn't do this, then who did?"
"See now, that's a good question, on several levels. Depending on what you mean by 'this.

James S.A. Corey

#23. Dammit," Holden said after he'd killed the connection. "You ever get the sense that the universe is out to get you?" "Sometimes I get the sense that the universe is out to get you," Amos said with a grin. "It's fun to watch.

James S.A. Corey

#24. 'Oh, gods,' said Holden, halfway into his tunic. 'I can't believe it's taken me five years to realize your one tragic flaw. You're a morning person. Stop being so chipper right now. At least until I've had my coffee.'

Maculategiraffe

#25. Seamus can't be the king to my queen. Because he's a saint. And no one measures up to a saint.

Kim Holden

#26. I've always said, since I got to know him and wrote about him, that he's the generation he least appeals to is his own and I think in many ways he was born middle-aged and that's become apparent in recent years.

Anthony Holden

#27. There's nothing tragic about being fifty. Not unless you're trying to be twenty-five.

William Holden

#28. If there's one thing I've learned this year it's that if you're meant to be with someone, it will happen. You can't force love. So even if it means that your first love becomes unrequited, then you should move on because maybe there's someone better for you." I

Blair Holden

#29. Holden punched the comm system on the wall. "Well, crew, welcome aboard the gas freighter Rocinante." "What

James S.A. Corey

#30. Ask one hundred people to explain love. And you'll get one hundred different answers. Because love is like art, it's subjective. Fluid. Ever-changing. Evolving. Case

Kim Holden

#31. I want the right to outbid anyone else who tries to hire you. No contracts without my counteroffer." Holden held out his hand, and Fred shook it.

James S.A. Corey

#32. Something out there has a comm array that'll put a dot the size of your anus on us from over three AU away," Alex said. "Okay, wow, that's impressive. What is our anus-sized dot saying?" Holden asked.

James S.A. Corey

#33. And for the first time, Gus's tattoo makes sense. Because this ... everything I see ... everything I hear ... everything I feel ... it's epic. Gus. Rook. They do epic.

Kim Holden

#34. You deserve someone who takes you out on real dates. Someone who buys you flowers and shit. Because if there's anyone in this world who's capable of insane amounts of love and who deserves to be loved that way in return, it's you.

Kim Holden

#35. What?" "You're very beautiful," Holden said. "I hope I tell you that often enough." "You do." "Then I hope I don't tell you so often it gets annoying." "You don't," she

James S.A. Corey

#36. I'm just attracted to good material and great characters and that can come in any form, whether it's television or film or a theatre piece.

Laurie Holden

#37. His voice has invaded me. I'm not just hearing it. I'm taking it in through all five senses. It's intimate in a way I can't even begin to explain.

Kim Holden

#38. There's a right thing to do," Holden said.
"You don't have a right thing, friend," Miller said. "You've got a whole plateful of maybe a little less wrong.

James S.A. Corey

#39. Penn State has also continued to be a leader in Pennsylvania's largest industry: Agriculture.

Tim Holden

#40. I meant fact," Holden went on as if he hadn't heard Alex at all. "I thought if you told people facts, they'd draw their conclusions, and because the facts were true, the conclusions mostly would be too. But we don't run on facts. We run on stories about things. About

James S.A. Corey

#41. My brother is my go-to with scripts, especially when we're talking genre pieces, because I want to make sure that it's legit. I can love it, but then I pass stuff on to him.

Gina Holden

#42. Holden stopped next to the desk and turned around to look at the woman sitting on the couch. Graying hair, but good features and an athletic build. In a flophouse like this, that probably meant a prostitute reaching the end of her shelf life.

James S.A. Corey

#43. Afterward he collapsed onto the deck and gave in to the shakes. Naomi climbed into her couch and sobbed. It was the first time Holden had ever seen her cry.

James S.A. Corey

#44. Don't judge each other. We all have our own shit. Keep your eyes on yours and your nose out of everyone else's unless you're invited in. And when you get the invitation, help, don't judge.

Kim Holden

#45. Right," Holden said. "No coffee. This is a terrible, terrible planet.

James S.A. Corey

#46. When the magistrate says 'That's not a good enough reason my man.' He said 'Excuse me, could I ask you? Have you taken an oath of allegiance to the Monarch?'

Anthony Holden

#47. It's a problem for him because he's got - like Edward VII had - nearly all his lifetime to wait until he becomes Monarch. What is he going to do with it? So he wants to do something positive but he always courts those dangers.

Anthony Holden

#48. It's a really dark, emotionally wrenching world that we've created on 'The Walking Dead.'

Laurie Holden

#49. It was a lot to hope for, but Holden was an unapologetic optimist. Give people the information they need. Trust them to do the right thing. He didn't know any other way to play it. Or

James S.A. Corey

#50. It's all fun and games till someone shoots back, Holden thought.

James S.A. Corey

#51. Acts of anti-Semitism in countries throughout the world, including some of the world's strongest democracies, have increased significantly in frequency and scope over the last several years.

Tim Holden

#52. Do you know what it's like to be blessed with someone so special, to love them so much it hurts, and then have them taken from you forever?

Kim Holden

#53. Dont's ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everyone- Holden Caulfield

J.D. Salinger

#54. Some people wear their scars on the outside. Others wear them on the inside. Same difference. Your character, your heart, your essence, that's what's important, because that's the real you. All the rest, our looks, the material stuff? It's just meaningless bullshit.

Kim Holden

#55. We don't want to get in a gunfight," Holden warned Amos as they began moving again. "Yeah," Amos said. "But if we're in one anyway, it'll be nice to have guns.

James S.A. Corey

#56. Hey," she said. "Hey." "So I have a thing." "Is it a thing I can fix?" Holden asked. "Point me at the thing.

James S.A. Corey

#57. I've given up on life. Or life's given up on me. Either way I'm done." And then his voice hitches and quiets. "Finish me.

Kim Holden

#58. That's your plan?" Holden said, incredulity in his voice. "Go collect some police bribes?" Across the restaurant, a prostitute in a red nightgown yawned prodigiously; the john across the table from her frowned.

James S.A. Corey

#59. It's probably full of vomit zombies," Holden finally said. "Want to go see?" said Miller. "Oh yeah," Holden said.

James S.A. Corey

#60. If Fred is showing this to you, Holden, know that your home planet appreciates your service. Also try not to put your dick in this. It's fucked enough already.

James S.A. Corey

#61. You've been friends with a guy your entire life?"
"Sure. What's so weird about that?"
"Don't take this the wrong way, but if I had a best friend that looked like you, I'd have a hard time keeping it friendly.

Kim Holden

#62. Just one more word. If I ever run into any of you bums on the street corner, just let's pretend we never met before.

William Holden

#63. The Sword. Her name is Nightmare."
A small shiver ran down Vall's back, in the exact line where the blade now was. It was not a shiver of fear, but of understanding.
"And a nightmare, she shall be.

Holden R. Johnson

#64. I've worked with Frank [Darabont] on two collaborations, The Majestic with Jim Carrey and Stephen King's The Mist.

Laurie Holden

#65. We all stripped to survive, it's only the what we were surviving part that was different.

Kim Holden

#66. I think women are amazing and women's friendships are like a sisterhood and we should see more of it in television and film.

Laurie Holden

#67. I can get you some stimulants if you'd like, but there's no coffee." "Right," Holden said. "No coffee. This is a terrible, terrible planet. Show me how to make everyone better.

James S.A. Corey

#68. We could have a political movement going if it had been properly organized but the Monarchy's done itself enormous damage possibly beyond the point of long-term recovery.

Anthony Holden

#69. A variety of national and international studies indicate that the broad-based deployment of information technology can have a substantial impact on our nation's economic productivity and growth as well as the educational and social success of our citizens.

Tim Holden

#70. Husband and wife seems like a less interesting and committed relationship than Holden and Naomi

James S.A. Corey

#71. If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn't rub out even half the "Fuck you" signs in the world. It's impossible.

J.D. Salinger

#72. You are brave ...
Now go ... do epic!
That's an order.
Do it.
Please.

Kim Holden

#73. Holden thought he had probably been a very good scientist. Thrilled by small victories, undeterred by setbacks.

James S.A. Corey

#74. Every time I get something that's different than the last thing, I get excited. I don't want to play the same thing, every single time.

Gina Holden

#75. It's a fun thing to do: Go to a shooting range with a buddy, knock off a few rounds, release stress.

Laurie Holden

#76. I don't care who or what judges me, nothing's going to stop me from living my life how I choose.

Amanda Holden

#77. Just do not pull that fucking trigger. Do you understand what I'm saying? Don't. You will be personally responsible for the deadliest screwup in the history of humankind, and I'm on a ship with Jim fucking Holden, so the bar's not low.

James S.A. Corey

#78. Mom," Holden said. "Earthers and Belters can have kids just fine. We're not a different species.

James S.A. Corey

#79. Thank you, Mister Patel," Holden said. "In thanks, you may now have all my stuff. I don't care about any of it anymore." "Including the coffee maker, sir?" "Almost all my stuff.

James S.A. Corey

#80. I didn't forget it. It's a cranky bastard when it doesn't get time to snuggle in my bunk. It was napping, not dead.

Kim Holden

#81. It's not too bad when the sun's out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.

J.D. Salinger

#82. Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not"
-Judge Holden

Cormac McCarthy

#83. By the time the Somnambulist had set her creaking bones to rest on their assigned landing pad, Holden had lost all patience with human stupidity.
So, of course, it came out to meet him.

James S.A. Corey

#84. It's one of those places that are supposed to be very sophisticated and all, and the phonies are coming in the window.

J.D. Salinger

#85. What did you do?" Fred asked. "There was a button," Holden said. "I pushed it." "Jesus Christ. That really is how you go through life, isn't it?" "But

James S.A. Corey

#86. I know no one's perfect, but Dimitri's perfect for me. We balance one another. And we've been through a lot. It feels so good to be at peace, taking care of each other day-to-day.

Kim Holden

#87. If it's one thing that I've learned this year it is to recognize and treasure the people who love you for who you are. Changing yourself to fit into someone else's life is never a good idea. People should love you for who you are, not who they want you to be. I

Blair Holden

#88. Background radiation spoke to Holden in mystic whispers full of dire portents while he waited. Newcomer, it said. Hang around for fourteen billion years or so. See what I've seen. Then all this nonsense won't seem so important. I'll

James S.A. Corey

#89. Fuck it. I am who I am. Nobody's perfect.

Kim Holden

#90. Kate Sedgwick. That name holds so much power over me. The best kind of power: inspiring, encouraging, and respectable. It's a name that I've always associated with badass bravery. It's a name that always meant anything was possible. It's a name that was love and goodness and kindness.

Kim Holden

#91. There was a button," Holden said. "I pushed it."
"Jesus Christ. That really is how you go through life, isn't it?

James S.A. Corey

#92. There's something epic that happens every day if you look hard enough for it.

Kim Holden

#93. She knows I love the dude. She's trying to butter me up - both sides, front and back, top to bottom. It's working.

Kim Holden

#94. Later," Amos said, "when you're wishing we had this stuff, I am going to be merciless in my mockery. And then we'll die." Holden

James S.A. Corey

#95. Some people skim life and some people read so closely they see the things others don't. That's where the beauty lies, in between the lines, in the details. The story within the story.

Kim Holden

#96. If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late?

J.D. Salinger

#97. That Holden is up to something? Have you met that guy? He's never done anything secretly in his life.

James S.A. Corey

#98. That's the terrible part. I swear to God I'm a madman.

J.D. Salinger

#99. There's this great big world out there where women are valued for more than their vaginas," she

Kim Holden

#100. He says what's on his mind and he doesn't hold back. Life would be so much easier if everyone were that way.

Kim Holden