The Hole We're In Quotes

“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, The Hole We're In

“It is lucky, she thinks, that we don’t feel all the love inside us every moment. We couldn’t breathe or walk or eat. It is lucky that it just flares up every now and again then resolves itself into a manageable dormancy.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Hole We're In

“It is lucky, she thinks, that we don’t feel all the love inside us every moment.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Hole We're In

“The only emotion she truly experienced was mild annoyance, and she felt that most all the time.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Hole We're In

“At some point, Vincent, we have to overcome the disaster of our parentage.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Hole We're In

“She harbored particular envy for rich people who could afford mental hospitals—how relaxing that sounded!”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Hole We're In

“It’s crazy,” she said. “What is?” The connections, she thought. Or the lack of them. The discontinuity. How it was impossible to understand how a person got from point a to point b, even if you were that person and you had been there for every, every step. How there were unseen and mysterious forces beyond yourself.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Hole We're In