“As long as I know this" - he lifted our joined hands - "is mine to hold, I'll wait for you forever.”
“I know the drill, Clark. But I'll be gone for four years. Will you just hold me tonight? Just spooning, no forking.”
“A wonderful bird is the Pelican.His beak can hold more than his belly can.He can hold in his beakEnough food for a week!But I'll be darned if I know how the hellican?”
“But I will hold on hopeAnd I won't let you chokeOn the noose around your neckAnd I'll find strength in painAnd I will change my waysI'll know my name as it's called again”
“It was a close place. I took it up, and held it in my hand. I was a trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself:'All right, then, I'll go to hell'- and tore it up.”