Hole In My Life Jack Gantos Quotes

But every living soul is a book of their own history, which sits on the ever-growing shelf in the library of human memories. ~ Jack Gantos

Well, don't fart or you'll scare the deer," he continued seriously. "They have very sensitive noses and ears. ~ Jack Gantos

I could see everything she said as if it were a wall painting inside the cave of my own skull. ~ Jack Gantos

Don't ever forget your history," she sang, "or any wicked soul can lie to you and get away with it. ~ Jack Gantos

These folks zigged when the rest of the world zagged. And once you cross the line, there's no coming back. Mark my words. ~ Jack Gantos

We have to save the history we have. You never know what small bit of it might change your life
or change the whole world. ~ Jack Gantos

Don't ever go to war. Even if you win, the battle is never over inside you. ~ Jack Gantos

Money is just a way of measuring work, but you don't need money if everyone agrees that trading one kind of work for another will do just as well. ~ Jack Gantos

They say love is blind, but for me it's the opposite. It makes me see the good in him, too, which is why I can never hate him.'
Mom (Fran) ~ Jack Gantos

Not romantic," she disagreed. "To me it would be romantic if Antony properly fell on his sword and kicked the bucket and Cleopatra escaped and lived a lovely life sailing along the Nile without him and his big ideas ruining her kingdom. ~ Jack Gantos

Someone once said anyone can be great under rosy circumstances, but the true test of character is measured by how well a person makes decisions during difficult times. ~ Jack Gantos

But it was the kind of story that doesn't go away after the first time you tell it so you have to tell it over and over until it goes away for good. If it ever can. ~ Jack Gantos

I was always a liar. But one thing I failed to realize about being a liar is that you know when you are deceiving someone else, but when you deceive yourself you believe you are telling the truth. ~ Jack Gantos

When Patti Fox broke up with me, I typed her name over a thousand times on my manual Olivetti until the entire page was beaten into a stiff sheet of black ink. ~ Jack Gantos

Well I'm looking at history," she said, pointing at me. "You used to be a friend, but now you stink as a friend! I came here to give you a second chance and you make me smell the crotch of an old book. ~ Jack Gantos

I want you to take a sleeve of Thin Mints and line them up on the edge of the kitchen counter and when I'm hungry I can just bend over and sweep a cookie into my mouth like I'm scoring a goal in hockey. ~ Jack Gantos

Since I was trying so hard to make books lead my life, I didn't want to read them and then just put them back on the shelf and say, "good book," as if I was patting a good dog. I wanted books to change me, and I wanted to write books that would change others. ~ Jack Gantos

Of course I still love my grandma even after all the awful stuff she did to me, which is scary that you can love someone who is not nice. I guess that is what getting better will do to a person: make you forgive people who have been mean to you. ~ Jack Gantos

Miss Volker," I said about as politely as I knew how, "do you think you will outlast the rest of these original people?" "I have to," she said. "I made a promise to Eleanor Roosevelt to see them to their graves, and I can't drop dead on the job - so let's get going. ~ Jack Gantos

You can't do anything for a person who is stuck between being happy and being miserable. All you can do is get trapped in the middle, and anyone in the middle just gets squished.' -Grandma ~ Jack Gantos

If you have an orderly mind, you'll be a winner no matter where you end up. If your mind is a jumble of junk, you'll be a loser. It's as simple as that. ~ Jack Gantos

Who proved that you don't have to do what your parents want, or what your boyfriend wants, for you to be happy. You just have to be yourself, for there is no love greater than self love ~ Jack Gantos

There were tiny loaves for dolls, and warm dinner rolls, and long French bread, and braided rings of bread, and thick loaves as big and round as wagon wheels, and even entire wheat-colored cottages of crusty bread which when you lived in them were more like yeasty caves in a gigantic mountain of bread, and all you had to do in order to feed your self in heaven was pull a hank of soft, moist bread right out of the wall. ~ Jack Gantos

Another thing I've been trying to do on my walks is to know what I'm looking at, when I'm looking at it. I want to be smart. When I walk down the sidewalk I see about a hundred different kinds of bugs and all I do is point at them like a caveman and say 'Ugh, look, a bug,' but I know each one of them must have a different name and a different reason why and how it came to be on the planet, and I don't know any of that stuff. ~ Jack Gantos

It wasn't that I hated being asked a bunch of questions. I had nothing against questions. I just didn't like listening to them, because some questions take forever to make sense. Sometimes waiting for a question to finish is like watching someone draw an elephant starting with the tail first. As soon as you see the tail your mind wanders all over the place and you think of a million other animals that also have tails until you don't care about the elephant because it's only one thing when you've been thinking about a million others. ~ Jack Gantos

For one second I thought I saw it and I reached down and snatched up a little flesh-colored round thing, but ti was just a used round Band-Aid. My mother slapped it out o fmy hand and that was the first moment I realized she was mad at me too. And suddenly it was as if my heart was as uncontrollable as my legs. All this time I thought she was on my side, because I wa son her side. But maybe she had given up on me too. So I didn't say anything more because I was scared she was going to be against me like everyone else. ~ Jack Gantos

I knew she was not telling me the truth. I asked her again what had happned because I don't like it when she keeps something from me. She's not allowed. Because when she lies, someting inside me changes, and it's like the WHOLE WORLD is one way and I'm the other. Like I can't trust a thing, as if the whole world knows a secret I don't and I'm running around from person to person asking them to tell me but they won't and the more I don't know what is going on the more scared I become and I feel myself drifting farther and farther away from everyone. ~ Jack Gantos

Life starts from a white hole and ends in a black hole. ~ Santosh Kalwar

I like Saturdays. They are my best thinking days. It is my day to try to find that one special thought that turns into an idea that I remember forever and becomes a part of who I am, like a freckle or a finger or an ear. Even before I open my eyes I take a deep breath and try to picture something, anything, as if my brain were a keyhole where I can spy on my future. So each Saturday morning I try to find a little piece of a thought, and then I keep turning it over in my mind until it turns into a complete idea and at the end of the day when I'm lying in bed I put the whole thought into a little room in my head so I can remember it. ~ Jack Gantos

A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole. ~ Plautus

Life at best is bittersweet. ~ Jack Kirby

Jack with the hair hanging, Jack demanding money, Jack of the big gut, Jack of the loud, loud voice, Jack of the trade, Jack who prances before the ladies, Jack who thinks he´s a genius, Jack who pukes, Jack who bad mouths the lucky, Jack getting older and older, Jack still demanding money, Jack sliding down the beanstalk, Jack who talks about it but doesn't do it, Jack who gets away with murder, Jack who jacks, Jack who talks of the old days, Jack who talks and talks, Jack with the hand out, Jack who terrorizes the weak, Jack the embittered, Jack of the coffee shops, Jack screaming for recognition, Jack who never has a job, Jack who totally overrates his potential, Jack who keeps screaming about his unrecognized talent, Jack who blames everybody else. ~ Charles Bukowski

An ordinary black hole is thought to be the end state of a really massive star's life. ~ Andrea M. Ghez

Be in love with your life. Every minute of it. ~ Jack Kerouac

Be in love with your life, every detail of it. ~ Jack Kerouac

My life has been filled with terrible misfortunes - most of which never happened. Mark Twain ~ Jack Kornfield

I don't want to spend my life not having good food going into my pie hole. That hole was made for pies. ~ Paula Deen

Drink deep the cup of life; take it's dark wine into your soul. For it passes round the table only once. ~ Jack McDevitt

Hole ... " He grips Risa's hand tighter. "Hole, Risa, hole ... " And she smiles "Yes, Connor," she says. "You're whole. You're finally whole. ~ Neal Shusterman

Life was life no matter where one lived ~ Jack Kerouac

Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity. ~ Jack Kornfield

life is too narrow to walk in but wide to run throw ~ Jack Daniels

Life is a dream from which there is but one awakening. ~ Jack Sanger

I can't exactly describe it, but as I looked at the putt, the hole looked as big as a wash tub, I suddenly became convinced I couldn't miss. All I tried to do was keep the sensation by not questioning it. ~ Jack Fleck

So I went way too in depth? I thought they wanted the hole by hole. ~ Trent Dilfer

If my body is a Universe, I have a black hole. I mask it, but it sits at the center of my body. I question it. Am I living up to my potential? Would I lose my creativity if I got help? Isn't life a black hole? ~ Claudia Turner

Some accidents make wonder in your life inspite of the wounds it cause. You cant heal them. Infact, you never want to!! ~ Nelson Jack

You spend your whole life trying to get out of holes. The hole you're born into because of who your parents are. The hole you dig yourself trying to get out of that first hole. The hole your children are born into is the saddest hole of all. It occurs to her that she has spent most of her life digging herself out of or into one hole or another. And then, in the end, they just lower you into the ground anyway. She whispers a question, kind of like a prayer, if she were the praying sort, to no one in particular, How in the world do you ever get out? ~ Gabrielle Zevin

Yes, I'm afraid the life over here is very different from N.Z. but oh boy it's a grand life. ~ Jack Lovelock

We need energy, commitment, and courage not to run from our life nor to cover it over with any philosophy - material or spiritual. ~ Jack Kornfield

Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows. ~ Jack Kornfield

I've been on sets my whole life. ~ Jack Quaid

The hole that I'm in wasn't a hole until I dug it. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

everyone deserves two things in life: respect and justice. ~ Jack Silkstone

Man always gets less than he demands from life. ~ Jack London

This gambling habit is the curse of a thief's life. ~ Jack Black

The first creation of every artist is getting carved from the best moments of his life!! ~ Nelson Jack

There is a web of life into which we are born, from which we can never fall. ~ Jack Kornfield

What have you done for YOURSELF this year to create a better life? ~ Jack Canfield

Don't be a sucker all your life, dummy up, ya dope. ~ Jack Kerouac

Every year is vital in the life of a child. ~ Jack McConnell

the road is life ~ Jack Kerouac

A hole opened up and he had to know what was inside it. So he picked and picked until the hole was huge, and then everything sort of ... fell in, him, his wife, his kid, and this fragile life they'd built at the edge of this hole. And that's why he was here, because he'd begun wondering if maybe his father hadn't fallen in the same hole - ~ Jess Walter

Man no longer follows instinct with the old natural fidelity. He has developed into a reasoning creature, and can intellectually cling to life or discard life just as life happens to promise great pleasure or pain. ~ Jack London

Like some people in life, a lot of my characters have no future. ~ Jack Tate

Life is too short to spend every day doing something you don't love. ~ Jack Welch

Maybe that's what life is ... a wink of the eye and winking stars. ~ Jack Kerouac

Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is. ~ Jack Nicklaus

For the last time in his life he allowed passion to usurp cunning and reason, ~ Jack London

You may be perfect. But I am human! Do not look up and down ~ Nelson Jack

Celebrities become excluded from everyday life, kind of in exile in an echelon that is deemed better, anyway: Life of celebrity, all the fame and glamor. ~ Jack Gleeson

Life is not an apology. ~ Jack Kerouac

Living creatures, if nothing else, have the right to life. It is their only truly precious possession, and the stealing of life is a wicked theft ~ Jack Vance

I'm actually a hippy in real life. I had three dreadlocks on the back of my head once. They were spawning. ~ Jack O'Connell

I lay for hour thinking about London, my old bedroom and the Dad-shaped hole in my life. ~ Caroline Green

THE RESULTS OF YOUR BAD HABITS USUALLY DON'T SHOW UP UNTIL MUCH LATER IN LIFE ~ Jack Canfield

Be in love with yr life ~ Jack Kerouac

You're absolutely right. Our little town is a hole. It always has been and still is. But now it is a hole into the future. We're going to dump so much through this hole into your lousy world that everything will change in it. Life will be different. It'll be fair. Everyone will have everything that he needs. Some hole, huh? Knowledge comes through this hole. And when we have the knowledge, we'll make everyone rich, and we'll fly to the stars, and go anywhere we want. That's the kind of hole we have here ~ Arkady Strugatsky

I don't believe in luck. Not in golf, anyway. There are good bounces and bad bounces, sure, but the ball is round and so is the hole. If you find yourself in a position where you hope for luck to pull you through, you're in serious trouble. ~ Jack Nicklaus

Liberty means more to me than life itself. ~ Jack Kevorkian

Life that did not yearn toward life was in fair way toward ceasing. ~ Jack London

Life is like Candyland, there are many paths to take, sometimes you run into Lord Licorice but the end will always be Candy Castle. ~ Jack Barakat

all of life is a foreign country. ~ Jack Kerouac

I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life. ~ Jack Kerouac

You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police. ~ Jack Nicholson

Self Promotion on Goodreads or Amazon forums is a cardinal sin. Everywhere else on the internet, it's just part of life. If you're running for President, that IS life. ~ Jack Bee

It's hard separating work from personal life. ~ Jack McCollough

My eyes were glued on life, and they were full of tears. ~ Jack Kerouac

Adventuresome stories to life for kids big and small who dare to dream. ~ Jack Makhlouf

I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it. ~ Jack Handy

IT'S SAID that you can only live life forward and understand it backward. ~ Jack Welch

You have to believe in life before you can accomplish anything. ~ Jack Kerouac

I have never in my whole life asked for an autograph. It seems a little ... unnecessary. ~ Jack White

Why should I bend for something which I deserve. Give it in my hands! ~ Nelson Jack

Go sell crazy someplace else; we're all stocked up."
(Melvin Udall aka Jack Nicholson, 1997) ~ Jack Nicholson

Women who focus on style over substance usually find themselves in a big fucking hole, with other men who want to fuck the hole. Oh so smooth, and none sophistacted. Because, you know, how sophisticated can hole-fucking really be ~ Emilie Autumn

Technology is your friend ... When it works. ~ Jack Wynn

Do what you feel is right and back yourself up. Live the life you want to live. ~ Jack Barakat

I really wanted people to pay attention to me and like me. And the class clown thing, you know? There's a weird desperation to the class clown when you really investigate it. Why are they trying to be the clown so much? They're filling some kind of hole. ~ Jack Black

Listen, when you take my liberty away, you've taken away more-something more precious than life. I mean, what good is a life without liberty? Huh? None. ~ Jack Kevorkian