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101 " All too soon Stanley was back out on the lake, sticking his shovel into the dirt. X-Ray was right: the third hole was the hardest. "
― Louis Sachar , Holes (Holes, #1)
102 " And the next time I tell you to do something, I expect you to do it without questioning my authority. If it’s too much trouble for you to fill a canteen, I’ll give you a shovel. You can dig the hole, and the Caveman can fill your canteen. "
103 " Stanley had no trouble falling asleep, "
104 " They walked for what seemed like a very long time, and still never came across the Mary Lou. Stanley was pretty sure they were heading in the right direction. He remembered that when they left the boat, they were headed toward the setting sun. Now they were headed toward the rising sun. He knew the sun didn’t rise and set exactly in the "
105 " bad case of foot odor. "
106 " Theodore whirled and grabbed Stanley by his collar. “My name’s not Thee-o-dore,” he said. “It’s Armpit.” He threw Stanley to the ground. "
107 " Stanley was not a bad kid. He was innocent of the crime for which he was convicted. He'd just been in the wrong place at the wrong time. It was all because of his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather! He smiled. It was a family joke. Whenever anything went wrong, they always blamed Stanley's no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather. "
108 " Stanley was thankful that there were no racial problems. X-Ray, Armpit, and Zero were black. He, Squid, and Zigzag were white. Magnet was Hispanic. On the lake they were all the same reddish brown color—the color of dirt. "
109 " What are we supposed to be looking for?" Stanley asked him. "You're not looking for anything. You're digging to build character. It's just if you find anything, the Warden would like to know about it. "
110 " YOU ARE ENTERING CAMP GREEN LAKE "
111 " He took several long, deep breaths. Then his head jerked violently, and he let out a shrill scream, worse than the one before. "
112 " No one ever says ‘No’ to Charles Walker!” “I believe I just did,” said Katherine Barlow. "
113 " food for the angels. "
114 " Stanley raised and lowered one shoulder. "
115 " Back at school, a bully named Derrick Dunne used to torment Stanley. "
116 " Her classes were often full of young men, who were a lot more interested in the teacher than they were in getting an education. But all they ever got was an education. "
117 " Is your last name your first name backward?" Zero asked. Stanley stared at him in amazement. Had he been working on that all night? "
118 " Somehow they were both still alive, at least for one more second, one more heartbeat. "
119 " The left side of Mr. Sir’s face had swollen to the size of half a cantaloupe. There were three dark-purple jagged lines running down his cheek where the Warden had scratched him. "
120 " If you take a bad boy and make him dig a hole every day in the hot sun, it will turn him into a good boy. "