Holling Hoodhood Quotes

“To ask your big sister to be your ally is like asking Nova Scotia to go into battle with you.”

“Of all the kids in the seventh grade at Camillo Junior High, there was one kid that Mrs. Baker hated with heat whiter than the sun. Me.”

“But if anyone had ever walked in and plinked a key or sniffed the artificial tropical flowers or straightened a tie in the gleaming mirror, they sure would have been impressed at the perfect life of an architect from Hoodhood and Associates.”

″‘Mrs. Baker hates your guts, right?’ I nodded. ‘Then, Holling, you might try getting some.‘”

“Teachers bring up Shakespeare only to bore students to death. And I was going to be bored to death for eight months. No human being could stand it.”

“Mom, it’s not like you have to know someone well to hate their guts. You don’t sit around and have a long conversation and then decide whether or not to hate their guts. You just do. And she does.”

“I wondered if he had ever had a choice, or if he had ever felt trapped. Or if he had ever imagined a different life.”

“Or maybe he never had someone to tell him that he didn’t need to find himself. He just needed to let himself be found.”

“So, Holling, what did you do that might make Mrs. Baker hate your guts, which will make other Baker family members hate the name of Hoodhood, which will lead the Baker Sporting Emporium to choose another architect, which will kill the deal for Hoodhood and Associate.”