Doughnut Quotes

“It sounded a bit like his mother, a woman who’d lied to him about the existence of Santa Claus and was therefore not to be trusted on matters of any importance.”
― Tom Holt, Doughnut

“He made a conscious decision not to think about it, and accordingly spent the rest of his shift thinking about nothing else.”
― Tom Holt, Doughnut

“You wouldn't think you could get bored falling to your death... But when it's a really, really long drop, there's a definite risk on ennui.”
― Tom Holt, Doughnut

“Booze had never been one of his problems; but, given his present circumstances, he could see no reason why he shouldn’t go for the complete set.”
― Tom Holt, Doughnut

“Necessity is the mother of invention, which probably explains why invention’s father left home on the pretext of buying a newspaper and hasn’t been heard of since.”
― Tom Holt, Doughnut

“No wonder there isn’t a Nobel prize for putting up with your family. They wouldn’t be able to find anyone to give it to.”
― Tom Holt, Doughnut

“Tall rectangular thing over there, hinges on one side, opening and shutting mechanism on the other. Let’s see if you can figure out how to make it work.”
― Tom Holt, Doughnut

“That’s the trouble with the truth,” he said, “it’s got such appallingly bad manners.”
― Tom Holt, Doughnut

“In the beginning there was the Word.
Not, perhaps, the most auspicious start for a cosmos; because once you have a Word, sooner or later you find you've also got an annoying Paperclip, and little wriggly red lines like tapeworms under all the proper nouns, and then everything freezes solid and dies. This last stage is known to geologists as the Ice Age, and one can't help thinking that it could've been avoided if only the multiverse had been thoroughly debugged before it was released.”
― Tom Holt, Doughnut