Cardboard Quotes

“Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.”
― Erma Bombeck

“I made lasagna for dinner," Tamsyn called out. "That work for you?"

He continued to look at her, as if he'd drink her up with his eyes. "Anything is fine."

"Maybe I shouldn't waste my lasagna on you, then." Tamsyn grabbed a container from the cooling unit. "How about some cardboard instead?"

Brenna found herself amused in spite of the blood that continued to scent the air and the taut expectation that stretched between her and Judd. Lips twitching, she waited for his response.

"Cardboard has no nutritional value." Utterly toneless. "Lasagna would be a better choice.”
― Nalini Singh, Caressed by Ice

“You want a bonbon?” Silena asked. “My dad sent them. He thought—he thought they might cheer me up.” “Are they any good?” I asked. She shook her head. “They taste like cardboard.” I didn’t have anything against cardboard, so I tried one.”
― Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian

“When one contemplated Portia, when one contemplated Sharon, when one contemplated one's own apparently pointless, utterly trivial being, the questions hung all around one, as urgent as knives at the throat. But the instant one tried to grasp one of them and turn it to one's own purpose and pierce through the murk, it became blunt and useless as a piece of cardboard.”
― Deborah Eisenberg

“Ax-man. Cardboard isn’t one of the major food groups, remember?”-Marco”
― Katherine Applegate

“If the foundation of your house is righteousness then your wealth will not be like a cardboard house that collapses under a gentle blow of wind”
― Sunday Adelaja

“My future plans involve standing at traffic junctions with a cardboard sign, begging for money.”
― Steven Magee

“The surrounding forest was a wall of darkness, the trees standing tall and silent, smelling like a high-quality cardboard air-freshener.”
― GLEN NESBITT, Joe the Alien