"If only, if only," the woodpecker sighs, "The bark on the tree was as soft as the skies." While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely, Crying to the moo-oo-oon, "If only, If only."

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Source : Louis Sachar (2011). “Holes”, p.39, Yearling

Louis Sachar

#Lonely Quotes #Sky Quotes #Tree Quotes

“All fiction is lies â€“ if it werenâ€™t, it would be biography, history, or reportage.”
“When I vacate this sack of old bones I won't care what you do with it. Bury or burn it but don't make much fuss.”
“We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.”
“Although the advice that you get if you got to see Margaret is 'stand up for yourself, shout back, and argue the toss and then she will respect you', the trouble is that sort of advice to the English middle-class male of a certain age doesn't actually help us very much because we've always been brought up to believe that it's extremely rude to shout back at women.”
“Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.”
“My grandmother was the daughter of pioneers, as was my grandfather, and they were farmers. And they worked the land, and there is a grounded value system that becomes inherent in knowing what's real and what's powerful. And understanding the material nature of not only man, but beasts and profit and all of those things that you fight for.”
“As soon as we are born, if we could but get up, bath, dress, shave, breakfast once for all, if we could 'cut' these monotonous cycles of routine. If the sun rose it would stay up, or once we were alive we were immortal!”

Source : W. N. P. Barbellion (2017). “The Journal of a Disappointed Man”, p.175, Penguin UK
“I was the Americans fair-haired boy”

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