Top 100 Holly's Quotes
#1. Joanna's quietly intent nature contrasted sharply with Holly's vibrancy. While Miss Brewster's flirtation stroked his ego, the spiritual maturity Miss Robbin's exhibited commanded his admiration and respect.
Karen Witemeyer
#2. Leaning in, he brushed his lips on Holly's cheek, and whispered in her ear, "You okay?"
She gave him a sidelong glance. "You might not promise adventure, but you sure do deliver.
Tracy March
#3. In a flashback, we hear Holly's mother summing up her life in a conversation with her husband, Wylie: "My life is one big mistake," she said. "No, it's not," he said. "It's a series of small mistakes.
Will Allison
#4. When the holly's in the red
And the pine is in the green,
When the mornings all are frosty,
In a brilliant silver sheen
Then I love to go a' walking
Rambling here and there, quite slow,
Plucking greenery and berries;
Wishing for a Christmas snow
Rachel Heffington
#5. You shouldn't even be in a band if you can't play Buddy Holly's Not Fade Away.
John Mellencamp
#6. I think Holly's right," Sophie said. "He likes you." "Oh, well, lucky me! I suppose if he loved me I'd be in federal prison.
Pamela Clare
#7. Crash Holly's so short, you can see his feet on his driver's licence photo.
Jerry Lawler
#8. His entired life bundled into wenty refuse sacks.
His and her memories bundle away in Holly's mind.
Each item unearthed dust, tears, laughter and memories. She bagged the items, cleared the dust, wiped her eyes and filed away the memories.
Cecelia Ahern
#9. sometimes you try so hard to fit in that you almost forget it's all an act.
Holly Madison
#10. Frith meant us to get back," replied Holly. "That's the real reason why we're here.
Richard Adams
#11. I didn't need to transform after all.
My name is Harriet Manners and I am a geek.
And maybe that's not so bad after all.
Holly Smale
#12. You are trying to take this whole situation and push it down, and hide it. It's not going to get you anywhere.
Holly Hood
#13. That's the problem with temptation. It's so damn tempting.
Holly Black
#14. She goes through this world as of nothing touches her, as if no one can reach her, as though she's focused on something bigger and better and more important that she's not going to tell you a single thing about. It charms them.
Holly Black
#15. I can't take the anger, the loneliness, the pain any longer. I sink to my knees. Everything wrong with my life swells in a rush of emotion.
Holly S. Roberts
#16. He threw his head back and sang, "'I am a centaur, yes, a centaur is what I am.' It's not like you to wax, Artemis"
"Foaly is singing," said Holly. "Surely that's illegal?
Eoin Colfer
#17. There's nothing like a gunshot to make you the life of the party.
Holly Black
#18. I notice small things. I'm a "detail" guy, that's why I'm good at programming.
Holly Peterson
#19. The Thorn of Istra, her mind supplied. That's the Thorn of Istra.
Lots. He's killed lots and lots and lots.
Holly Black
#20. There's terrible evil in the world."
It comes from men," said Holly. "All other elil do what they have to do and Frith moves them as he moves us. They live on the earth and they need food. Men will never rest till they've spoiled the earth and destroyed the animals.
Richard Adams
#21. I read 'Sabella or The Blood Stone' by Tanith Lee, which was hugely influential to me. I love Tanith's writing. She's just really lyrical, beautiful use of language.
Holly Black
#22. When she sees him, Holly says, it's like the sunsets at the beach
once the sun drops, the sand chills quickly. Then it's like a lot of times that were good ten minutes ago and don't count now.
Amy Hempel
#23. We're all dying, Cassel. It's just that some of us are dying faster than others.
Holly Black
#24. Learning anything interesting?"
"Not really. Psychology sounds a lot more interesting than it actually is."
Dad looked at me over the paper. "I'm afraid that's the same with most things in life.
Holly Bourne
#25. One, you moved here with your father, which means your a daddy's girl. No girl leaves their mother unless they are.
Holly Hood
#26. I need your help, says the tiny figure. Her voice is sad and soft and sounds like Lila's, but with an odd accent that might just be how cats sound when they talk.
Holly Black
#27. Mad at me. For Dad, parenting has become just like shooting one of his stupid insurance ads-some makeup to cover the blemishes, a flashy smile, and wham! He's got himself a regular picture-perfect family.
Holly Schindler
#28. this is neither a game of choice nor a life of choice. It's one of influence: Hers. And one of acceptance: Mine.
Holly Bodger
#29. Good's a pretty funny word. Never seems to have the same meaning to any two people" -T. Walker
Holly Schindler
#30. I drive him to school, then I break back into Barron's house. I'm the best kind of thief, the kind that leaves behind items equal in value to those he's stolen.
Then I go home and shave until my skin is as slick as any slickster's.
Holly Black
#31. One U.S. hit single and a hit T Shirt in 1985 does not a celebrity make.
Holly Johnson
#32. Lt's an honor and a delight to meet you and a tragedy you're here
Holly Black
#33. The true test of life isn't how you cope when everything is going in your favour; it's how you deal with things that could destroy you, if you let them.
Holly Bourne
#34. Moral relativism be damned, Riz. There's them, and there's us, and we fight and die for us and that's it.'
Holly "Bang-Bang" Kirpachi
Charlie Flowers
#36. I think it's been the topic of conversation for every one ... If the U.S. is hit again, how are we going to handle it? Our troops are all over the place.
Holly Johnson
#37. I cannot possibly borrow underclothes from Holly and Angela. Bras especially."
"I know," said Jared.
"Oh, you do, do you?" Kami inquired. "And how do you know, may I ask?"
There was a slight flush along the lines of Jared's cheekbones. "Observation.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#38. It's amazing how we hide from that, isn't it? How much of the violence of the universe comes from the unwillingness to say those two little words: 'I'm scared.
Holly Black
#39. Refills are free, the waitress tells us with a frown, like she's hoping we're not the kind of people who ask for endless refills. I am already pretty sure we are exactly those people.
Holly Black
#40. I'm not a doctor or scientist. I'm just a mom. But I do think there's a genetic predisposition, and there are environmental triggers. I feel like that combination, in my child's case, is what resulted in autism.
Holly Robinson Peete
#41. Like a stage magician, the con artist misdirects suspicion. While everyone's watching for him to pull a rabbit out of a hat, he's actually sawing a girl in half. You think he's doing one trick when he's actually doing another.
You think that I'm dying, but I'm laughing at you.
Holly Black
#42. Can you write 200 words a day? 100? 50? In six months, 50 words a day is 9,000 words. That's 2-3 short stories. If you did 200 words every day, in three months that's 36,000 words. That's half a short novel.
Holly Black
#43. She wants me to take out Patton."
Barron's brows draw together. "Take out? As in transform him?"
"No," I say. "As in take out to dinner. She thinks we'd make a good couple.
Holly Black
#44. There was room for all of us in that drainpipe even with the snake there. But if you're not wanted, there's no amount of space that will make a difference.
Holly Goldberg Sloan
#45. Loving someone isn't a hard task, it's not a chore, you don't wake up one day and decide to break their heart because you got all hot and bothered, that doesn't happen! he boomed.
Holly Hood
#46. To come to a concert and hear a lot of songs from a female perspective should not make men say, 'Oh well, that's for women'.
Holly Near
#47. I think it's important to get pictures of things on your head. Even if they are wrong. And they pretty much always are.
Holly Goldberg Sloan
#48. I wonder if he really could rationalize what I did to him, really treat betrayal like the slight transgression of a recalcitrant business partner. I wonder if I hurt him. If he can rationalize what I did to him, it's easy to imagine how he rationalized what he did to me.
Holly Black
#49. I'm Lila, and yes, he's crazy. But you must have noticed that before now. He was crazy back when I knew him, and he's obviously gotten crazier over
time.
Holly Black
#50. Quickly, Holly," said Artemis urgently. "Follow those bubbles."
Holly opened the throttle. "Now there's an order I never thought I'd hear from you.
Eoin Colfer
#51. There's nothing quite as funny as someone else's misery - Cassel Sharpe
Holly Black
#52. Every quilt has an intentional flaw because the only thing that's perfect is God.
Holly Jacobs
#53. It's the same with people knowing absolutely everything there is to know about an actor. I actually think the more personal information you have about an actor, the more you have to carve out for yourself when you go to a movie and see them in it.
Holly Hunter
#55. Once I decide I want to do something, I just work really hard and I do it, and I just know it's going to work. I think really positively.
Holly Madison
#56. It's hard to come up with a scheme to thwart some other scheme you don't even know about.
Holly Black
#57. It's not that I don't know that it's a bad idea. It's that, lately, bad ideas have a particular hold over me.
Holly Black
#58. It's not a girl's glittering personality that men're interested in, Holly. It never bloody is.
David Mitchell
#59. It looks like you've found an intellectual equal, Mulch," said Holly. "It's a pity he isn't a girl; then you could marry him."
Mulch imitated shock. "Romance outside your species. Now THAT's disgusting. What kind of weirdo would kiss someone when they weren't even part of the same species?
Eoin Colfer
#60. Don't know. Don't care. I'm hopping on a bus and going until I can't go any farther. Until I find a place that feels like home.'
He's quiet for a long time. 'How will you know what home feels like?'
It hangs in the air between us, as frozen as our breaths. I don't have an answer.
Holly Black
#61. Everyone's always scared for someone else's generation
Holly Bourne
#62. I suddenly realise that it doesn't matter how far I go, or how lost I am, or how lonely I feel. I fit in here. I always will.
That's how I know I'm home.
Holly Smale
#63. Aidan pulled against his bonds. "They keep talking to him in a whole bunch of languages. A lot of French. Something about the Thorn of Istra. I think he's in trouble."
"Are you?" Tana asked.
"Not exactly," said Gavriel.
Holly Black
#64. Well, when I get it the only thing that does any good is to jump in a cab and go to Tiffany's. Calms me down right away.
Holly Golightly
#66. He'd heard about Holly putting some magical whammy on him, bringing to life the legend of the Chosen that gave a vampire the power to exist on sexual energy rather than blood. Forced to have sex on a regular basis. Doctor's orders. Lucky bastard.
Sharon Ashwood
#67. From my observation, the older you get, the more you like the word cozy.
That's why most of the elderly wear pants with elastic waistbands. If they wear pants at all. This may explain why grandparents are in love with buying grand kids pajamas and bathrobes.
Holly Goldberg Sloan
#68. I think there's a reason that horror appeals to teens. There's a lot of useful lessons to take away from reading horror. We get to be scared in the comfort and safety of our own homes. We can put the book down if we get too scared, and no one will ever know if we decide not to pick it up again.
Holly Black
#69. I am not exuding anything," said Holly through gritted teeth.
Orion tapped her shoulder. "I beg to differ. You're exuding right now, a wonderful aura. It's pastel blue with little dolphins.
Eoin Colfer
#70. My mother's very proud of the name she gave me. She thought it sounded rhythmically better. It doesn't really make a difference to me what people call me, but since my mother calls me Holly Marie when she's angry, I prefer just my first name.
Holly Marie Combs
#71. That's enough!" Holly scrambled out of her seat, too. "My three-year-old behaves better than all of you." She looked down at LJ, who was trying to stuff a fry up his nostril. "And that's not saying a whole lot.
Nicole Williams
#72. He reached into the bag and drew out an odd array of manga, ripped paperbacks of books both classic and modern, and a small stack of crumpled magazines. See, I even brought some things to read aloud. I wasn't sure what you'd like, so there's a bit of everything.
Holly Black
#73. Life is a banquet, chica. Believe it or not, there's more on the buffet than work.
Emma Holly
#74. Moving from unbelief, to Evangelicalism, and finally home to the Catholic Church, Professor Holly Ordway reveals how a gifted mind, longing for transcendence, can only appropriate it if it is wholly given by the reach and power of God's grace.
Francis J. Beckwith
#75. But let that not be the moral of my story. True happiness doesn't come from simply getting married. I don't believe a woman's worth should be measured by whether or not she's married.
Holly Madison
#76. Gavriel closed his eyes, sooty lashes brushing his cheek. "I'll stay with you."
"What? No," she said automatically. "No! That's crazy."
"I'm crazy," he reminded her.
Holly Black
#77. The women's movement completely changed attitudes all over the world in ways we'll never be able to count.
Holly Near
#78. I grab a chair. "I don't mean to pry," I say, "but we're in a hospital. You sure you're fine?"
She sighs heavily. "No getting anything past you, huh?"
"I also often notice when water is wet. I have a keen detective's mind like that.
Holly Black
#79. At any given time I'm listening to the Cory Branan, Leonna Naess, Eve 6, the King's Noyse, Sean Paul, Green Day, the BoDeans, Buddy Holly, Nowell Sing We Clear ... the list goes on and on. But I rarely listen to music while I write. I start typing the lyrics.
Sarah Addison Allen
#80. I got bored," he says. "Besides, you know what's creepier than walking around your dead brothers' apartment? Sitting alone in a hearse in front of his apartment.
Holly Black
#81. Heartbeat, why do you skip when my baby's lips meet mine?
Buddy Holly
#82. Most of the time, life is all "What's next?" "Who's next?" "Where the HELL am I going, please?" But on anniversaries, you take the time to stop and look back and it's like watching a play of your past dance across your memory. At
Holly Bourne
#83. I haven't had a very good day. I think I might still be hung over and everyone's dead and my root beer's gone.
Holly Black
#84. Captain," said Bluebell, "do you know what the first blade of grass said to the second blade of grass?" Hazel looked at him sharply, but Holly replied, "Well?" "It said, 'Look, there's a rabbit! We're in danger!
Richard Adams
#85. I'm not trying to stump anybody ... it's the beauty of the language that I'm interested in.
Buddy Holly
#86. Holly, there's a raccoon on the back deck." "Really? What's it doing?" "Eating tika masala and naan.
David Thorne
#87. I started writing with intent to publish on January 1st, 1985, when, as my New Year's resolution, I resolved to finish a book before I turned 25. It's one of only a few New Year's resolutions I remember keeping - I finished that one with a couple weeks to spare.
Holly Lisle
#88. Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.
Holly Black
#89. That's what heroes did. They ran straight toward danger and didn't ever give up.
Holly Black
#90. Everyone all right?"
Angela nodded. Holly looked up and smiled too, her smile shakier and thus more real than Ash's. "I'm okay," she said. "I see you are too. I also see you have a weapon that is on fire."
"I'm badass like that," Kami said, putting the branch down on the cobblestones.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#91. There's a ton of nerves for every fight I've been in; it doesn't matter if it was my debut.
Holly Holm
#92. That's really paranoid," I say admiringly. "I'm going with that.
Holly Black
#93. She says that what you did was a cry for help."
"It was," I say. "That's why I was yelling 'Heeeelp!' I don't really go in for subtlety.
Holly Black
#94. There's no single person on this planet that's worth more than the other. Know your worth. Be confident in yourself.
Holly Holm
#95. There's a monster in our wood. She'll get you if you're not good. Drag you under leaves and sticks. Punish you for all your tricks. Anest of hair and gnawed bone. You are never, ever coming ... home.
Holly Black
#96. Little mouse," a voice said through the keyhole. "Don't you know the more you wriggle, the greater the cat's delight?
Holly Black
#97. (Fishing) is as boring as boring gets. And then when it's finally not boring and you have a fish on the line it turns into a crime scene with a wooden club and a crazy amount of hitting.
Holly Goldberg Sloan
#98. When people are self-entitled for no reason, just with anything, that bothers me. It's like waiting for someone to cross the road, and they walk slower because they know you're waiting. I like all the credit due in the places that it's supposed to be due.
Holly Holm
#99. You can kill a man but not a song when it's sung the whole world 'round.
Holly Near
#100. What other stuff do they teach you at federal agent school? I ask. It shouldn't bother me that he's fitting in so well. So what if he's faking it? Good for him. I guess what bothers me is him faking it better than I am.
Holly Black
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