Holly Smale Quotes

#1. I'm so tired of it all. I'm tired of not fitting in; of being left out; of being hated. I'm tired of having everything I am ripped up and strewn around the room the way a puppy wrecks an abandoned toilet roll. I'm tired of never doing anything right; of constantly being humiliated; of feeling like I'm just not good enough, no matter what I do. I'm tired of feeling like this. And most of all, I'm tired of being a polar bear, wandering around the rainforest on my own. #Quote by Holly Smale

#2. 1. You left a multipack of Mars Bars on top of your wardrobe. Can I have one? Dad x
2. I had three. Hope that's OK. Dad x
3. I'm just going to have one more. Dad x
4. Harriet, your Dad's made himself sick on an entire multipack of Mars Bars again. Please don't leave sweets where we can find them. A x #Quote by Holly Smale

#3. I came to get you. I knew you'd freak out."
"But ... " My head still feels like a helium balloon. "Why?"
Nick looks blank. "Because you always freak out."
I shake my head. My voice feels like I've swallowed it. "I mean, why do you care if I freak out?"
There's a long silence.
"Well," Wilbur finally bursts, "I can take a shot in the dark, if you want."
"Seriously," Nick snaps, making his fingers into a gun shape. "I'm going to take a shot in the dark in a minute and it will make contact."
Wilbur looks charmed. "Isn't he adorable?" he says fondly. "My duty as Fairy Godmother is complete, anyhoo, and I believe it's time to spread my magic dust elsewhere. So many pumpkins after all; so little time. #Quote by Holly Smale

#4. And this way, l'll leave everything behind before it gets the chance to do the same to me. #Quote by Holly Smale

#5. I can change my plans. But I can't change my family. #Quote by Holly Smale

#6. Nick grinned, swooping in for another kiss and then leaning back and scruffing his hair up. "Harriet Manners, I'm about to give you six stamps. Then I'm going to write something on a piece of paper and put it in an envelope with your address on it."
"OK …" "Then I'm going to put the envelope on the floor and spin us as fast as I can. As soon as either of us manage to stick a stamp on it, I'm going to race to the postbox and post it unless you can catch me first. If you win, you can read it."
Nick was obviously faster than me, but he didn't know where the nearest postbox was. "Deal," I agreed, yawning and rubbing my eyes.
"But why six stamps?"
"Just wait and see."
A few seconds later, I understood.
As we spun in circles with our hands stretched out, one of my stamps got stuck to the ground at least a metre away from the envelope. Another ended up on a daisy. A third somehow got stuck to the roundabout.
One of Nick's ended up on his nose.
And every time we both missed, we laughed harder and harder and our kisses got dizzier and dizzier until the whole world was a giggling, kissing, spinning blur.
Finally, when we both had one stamp left, I stopped giggling. I had to win this.
So I swallowed, wiped my eyes and took a few deep breaths.
Then I reached out my hand.
"Too late!" Nick yelled as I opened my eyes again. "Got it, Manners!" And he jumped off the still-spinning roundabout with the envelope held high over #Quote by Holly Smale

#7. That's the beauty of the summer holidays. It's as if life is just a big Etch-a-Sketch, and once a year you get to shake it vigorously up and down and start again. #Quote by Holly Smale

#8. Nick? Any idea?"
Nick coughs too. "Nope. No idea at all."
Wilbur gives him a stern look. "So what was the point in doing all the Jane Austen stuff if she doesn't know about it, Poodle-bottom? #Quote by Holly Smale

#9. My Best Friend and I have spent plenty of time together, despite me being in my First Ever Relationship. This is because friends should always come first. #Quote by Holly Smale

#10. Never underestimate the power of a well-placed apostrophe. #Quote by Holly Smale

#11. That's the truth about people with obsessively organised plans: we're not trying to control everything in our lives. We're trying to block out the things we can't. #Quote by Holly Smale

#12. They say fiction is the closest well ever get from magic. Open a book and an entire world will pop out and it doesn't matter if it's dragons or Victorian children or wizards. You are immediately someone else and somewhere else #Quote by Holly Smale

#13. Your daughter is adorable. I've never seen such an alien duck in my entire life. #Quote by Holly Smale

#14. They say that life is just a blank chain, and precious moments are the beads we hang off it to make it beautiful. #Quote by Holly Smale

#15. They say fiction is the closest we ever get to magic. Forget top hats and rabbits: open a book and an entire world will pop out. And it doesn't matter if it's dragons or Victorian orphans or wizards. You are immediately somewhere else and someone else. Transported. It's not like that with textbooks. #Quote by Holly Smale

#16. Nobody hopped into a wardrobe to find Narnia; they hopped in, thinking it was just a wardrobe. They didn't climb up the Faraway Tree, knowing it was a Faraway Tree; they thought it was just a really big tree. Harry Potter thought he was a normal boy; Mary Poppins was supposed to be a regular nanny. It's the first and only rule. Magic comes when you're not looking for it. #Quote by Holly Smale

#17. The sad fact is, there are 7.220.400.641 people on the planet, but right now I haven't got a single one to talk to. #Quote by Holly Smale

#18. I suddenly realise that it doesn't matter how far I go, or how lost I am, or how lonely I feel. I fit in here. I always will.
That's how I know I'm home. #Quote by Holly Smale

#19. Books are the best way to engage in other worlds. You can escape the one you're in. #Quote by Holly Smale

#20. 99.99999999999999999 per cent of every atom consists of empty space. It #Quote by Holly Smale

#21. The internet lied to me? #Quote by Holly Smale

#22. Because falling in love doesn't have to mean dropping your best friend in the process. #Quote by Holly Smale

#23. We don't have time for all this adorable Darcy and Lizzie tension, Kitten-cheeks. #Quote by Holly Smale

#24. You need to stop caring what people who don't matter think of you. Be who you are and let everybody else be who they are. Differences are a good thing. #Quote by Holly Smale

#25. Does a caterpillar sit on the same leaf when it's a butterfly? No! It goes for a little fly and sees something of the world. Does the tadpole stay in the same pond once it's a frog? No! It stretches its legs, goes for a jump, explores other waters. Did Cinderella go back cleaning hearths once she married the prince? ... Transformation means moving forward. If a butterfly stays on the same leaf and a frog stays in the same pond, then they may as well have stayed a caterpillar or a tadpole. There was no point in metamorphosing. #Quote by Holly Smale

#26. Well?" Nat says after a few seconds. "I'm surprised you're here again, Harriet. I thought you'd be busy auditioning for A Midsummer Night's Dream."
I blink a few times in surprise. "No. I'm not."
"You should be. I heard they're looking for an ass."
Oh. Now why can't I think of quips like that when I need them? #Quote by Holly Smale

#27. Gary nips my finger and starts clawing his way up my shoulder, hissing like an angry kettle. It's just not natural for something so cute and fluffy to be so nasty.
I look at Nick in distress. "Why is he spitting at me?"
"Maybe he thinks he's a llama. #Quote by Holly Smale

#28. Reason to move to New York: I don't to get left behind #Quote by Holly Smale

#29. Apparently humans share fifty per cent of their DNA with bananas. My father is a constant reminder of that. #Quote by Holly Smale

#30. I didn't need to transform after all.
My name is Harriet Manners and I am a geek.
And maybe that's not so bad after all. #Quote by Holly Smale

#31. There are 7,123,024,873 people in the world, and nick keeps choosing me #Quote by Holly Smale

#32. Adults almost never like doing their jobs from what I can tell. #Quote by Holly Smale

#33. We each have our own language.
Our own way of thinking, of talking to ourselves, of making sense of the world and putting it in order. A narration style that is ours and ours alone.
That's why some of us connect and some of us don't.
Because even though we can only live in our own heads, sometimes - every now and then - we meet a person we can talk to without speaking at all: whose story we can read, without even trying. #Quote by Holly Smale

#34. A slug has its bottom in its head. #Quote by Holly Smale

#35. I can only conclude that her feelings toward me are very similar to what I've read about love: passionate, random, inexplicable, and totally uncontrollable. She can't help hating me any more than Heathcliff could help loving Cathy. It's simply written in the stars. Which would be quite sweet if she wasn't such a cow all the time. #Quote by Holly Smale

#36. That's the thing about love.
You can plan it, and schedule it, and map it out. You can tell it how you want it to be, and where you want it to go, and what it's supposed to do. You can try to make it fit you.
But it won't listen to any of it.
Love puts itself first, and makes its own plans. It maps you out instead.
Maybe that's what makes it perfect. #Quote by Holly Smale

#37. My impact on hearts is like an earthquake happening on the other side of the world: if I'm lucky, I can hope for a teacup tinkling in its saucer. And even then it's a bit of a surprise and everybody talks about it afterward. #Quote by Holly Smale

#38. Did you know that the chances of being in a plane crash are less than 0.00001 per cent? That means that you're more likely to be killed by a donkey or to naturally conceive identical quadruplets. Bunty #Quote by Holly Smale

#39. She's probably so mesmerized by her own beauty she can't move away from the mirror," I hear Wilbur stage-whisper. "It's why I'm always late." Then he knocks on the door as well. "Look away from the reflection, baby," he shouts through the wood. "Just look away and the spell will be broken. #Quote by Holly Smale

#40. Because it's not the walking away from love that's the hard part: it's the falling in. It's losing yourself to it and not knowing who you are without it. It's needing somebody else more than you need yourself. It's being happier with them than you are on your own. #Quote by Holly Smale

#41. This might surprise you, but here's a fact: people who plan things thoroughly aren't particularly connected with reality. It seems like they are, but they're not: they're focusing on making things bite-size, instead of having to look at the whole picture. It's procrastination in its purest form because it convinces everyone - including the person who's doing it - that they are very sensible and in touch with reality when they're not. They're obsessed with cutting it up into little pieces so they can pretend it's not there at all. #Quote by Holly Smale

#42. My name," I tell Wilbur in the most dignified voice I can find, "Was inspired by Harriet Quimby, the first female American pilot and the first woman ever to cross the Channel in an aeroplane. My mother chose it to represent freedom and bravery and independence, and she gave it to me just before she died."
There's a short pause while Wilbur looks appropriately moved. Then Dad says, "Who told you that?"
"Annabel did."
"Well, it's not true at all. You were named after Harriet the tortoise, the second longest living tortoise in the world."
There's a silence while I stare at Dad and Annabel puts her head in her hands so abruptly that the pen starts to leak into her collar. "Richard," she moans quietly.
"A tortoise?" I repeat in dismay. "I'm named after a tortoise? What the hell is a tortoise supposed to represent?"
"Longevity? #Quote by Holly Smale

#43. Have you been sniffing glitter again? #Quote by Holly Smale

#44. There's a humpback whale in the ocean that sings at fifty-two hertz: too low for any other whale to hear. Scientists aren't sure if it's a genetic anomaly, or a sole survivor of an extinct species, or just a whale who accidentally learnt the wrong song. They just know that it's probably the loneliest mammal on earth. #Quote by Holly Smale

#45. We're all dying, Cassel. It's just that some of us are dying faster than others. #Quote by Holly Black

#46. If you have dreams you want to pursue, the time is now. There is no perfect time, and there is no better time. There is only the time you lose while you're making excuses. #Quote by Holly Lisle

#47. Holly died without a friend to hold her hand. Artemis felt her go, another gift of the magic. He kept on counting, brushing away the tears on his cheeks. #Quote by Eoin Colfer

#48. The only signs she would need to read would be in the sky, rather than the shadows and clouds that passed over her father's face, alerting her to whether he was the monster, or the man who turned a gum tree into a writing desk. #Quote by Holly Ringland

#49. Shit!"Holly said when our eyes fell on her bra lying at our feet. I snatched it from the ground, trying to stuff it in my pocket, but Dad was already inside the room, looking us over carefully, eyes scanning us head to toe, pausing at the bra dangling from my left hand. "Are you going to wear that?" He asked me. Holly started laughing right before me and then neither of us could stop. #Quote by Julie Cross

#50. Who among us is free? Only those who see their chains know what freedom means.-pg. 123 Welland Hevington, A Memoir The Demon's Daughter #Quote by Emma Holly

#51. Holly slides off the chairlift like a gymnast, and I slide off like a sack of hammers. #Quote by David Mitchell

#52. If we have to be cat burglars, I'm going to see what' to steal in the fridge."
We're trying to find evidence she's the poisoner. Just a thought before you start putting random things in your mouth." Ruth shrugged and walked past Val. #Quote by Holly Black

#53. When you're in love, you can handle almost anything as long as you can spend some time with your loved one. #Quote by Holly Chamberlin

#54. Wisdom is for the meek," he returns. "And it seldom helps them as much as they believe it will. After all, as wise as you are, you still married Locke. Of course, perhaps you are wiser than even that - perhaps you're so wise you made yourself a widow, too. #Quote by Holly Black

#55. Your faith in yourself is all you will ever have. Don't let anyone take it away from you, ever. #Quote by Holly Marie Combs

#56. Jonas shook his head. "Memories are like weeds. You mow them over and pull them up and think you're done, but the roots are still there. Let the ground warm up and - #Quote by Holly Bebernitz

#57. Apart from the snakes, the place had everything they needed. Home, sweet home. He'd bet his ass Holly wouldn't feel that way. * #Quote by Pamela Clare

#58. When your demon was yourself, there really was no way to fight or get rid of it. #Quote by Holly Hood

#59. I'm not good at having friends. I mean, I can make myself useful to people. I can fit in. I get invited to parties and I can sit at any table I want in the cafeteria.
But actually trusting someone when they have nothing to gain from me just doesn't make sense.
All friendships are negotiations of power. #Quote by Holly Black

#60. Does it hurt to bite your tongue so hard?" he asked with faux concern.

Holly didn't miss a beat. "I'm in a car with you--I clearly have a high pain threshold, #Quote by Nalini Singh

#61. ...My hands shook, and I stared at them. Another
loss of control. That was the second time this month. Sooner or later, I'd
break, if the department didn't put me down first. #Quote by Holly Rutan

#62. No, I won't help you. No, I won't hear you explain why I should. It really is a magical word: no. You say whatever bullshit you want and I just say no. #Quote by Holly Black

#63. Leo Vincey, know now the truth; that all things are illusions, even that there exists no future and no past, that what has been and what shall be already is eternally. Know that I, Ayesha, am but a magic wraith, foul when thou seest me foul, fair when thou seest me fair; a spirit-bubble reflecting a thousand lights in the sunshine of thy smile, grey as dust and gone in the shadow of thy frown. Think of the throned Queen before whom the shadowy Powers bowed and worship, for that is I. Think of the hideous, withered Thing thou sawest naked on the rock, and flee away, for that is I. Or keep me lovely, and adore, knowing all evil centred in my spirit, for that is I. Now, Leo, thou hast the truth. Put me from thee for ever and for ever if thou wilt, and be safe; or clasp me, clasp me to thy heart, and in payment for my lips and love take my sin upon thy head! Nay, Holly, be thou silent, for now he must judge alone. #Quote by H. Rider Haggard

#64. When I got close to him, he smelled clean and steamy, like a late June-rain. And I was reduced to a ridiculous, blubbering pile of melting Jell-O. Criminy. #Quote by Holly Schindler

#65. Do you know what it was like kissing Holly and looking up to see you?"

"What?"

"You said to begin anywhere."

But I hadn't expected that as a beginning, middle or end. I felt my cheeks getting warm. "I guess it was pretty embarrassing for both of us," I said, and walked ahead of him so he wouldn't see my face. "I know, I just kept staring at you."

"What were you thinking?"

"I don't remember."

"Don't you start using that line," he chided.

"Then don't ask me, Nick." Did he suspect how I felt.
He caught me and turned me around to face him. I focused on his shirt.

"Okay," he said quietly, "I'll tell you what I was thinking. I couldn't believe that I, who was never going to get hooked, had fallen in love with a girl who didn't want to date, and she was watching me kiss somebody else."

I glanced up.

"Your turn, brave girl. What were you thinking?"

"That Holly looked beautiful in your arms and that you didn't pull away from her the way you had pulled away from me when I kissed you."

He drew me to him. "I'm not pulling away again," he said holding me close. #Quote by Elizabeth Chandler

#66. You wouldn't have taken Rose to such a place, would you?"
"Of course not, but she is a little girl, and I'm-"
"My life", he interrupted quietly. "You're my entire life. If anything ever happens to you, Holly, there is nothing left for me. #Quote by Lisa Kleypas

#67. I like to go to England, and I'll tell you why. I like to go to a country where I am considered the best-looking person. It's as simple as that. Hollywood, kind of a crushing ego blow - 'Hey Buddy Holly, you are so old, have you not perished in a plane crash?' But not in England, good God, not there. In England, God bless that dinky island, there it's, 'Good God, look at him. He has all his teeth and his ears are in proportion to his head.' I'm Brad bloody Pitt on that island. #Quote by Greg Proops

#68. I was never one to like power, but in the back of everyone's mind, you secretly wouldn't mind having some at one point or another. To be able to make things the way you wanted them would be an amazing thing. #Quote by Holly Hood

#69. Desire is an odd thing. As soon as it's sated, it transmutes. If we receive golden thread, we desire the golden needle. #Quote by Holly Black

#70. My voice is my instrument ... It is not in the throat, from where it appears to come. It is in my feet and how they touch the floor, in my legs and how they lift and sink with the rhythm of the song. It is in my hips and belly and lower back ... #Quote by Holly Near

#71. suddenly it wasn't such a good thing to look like a criminal #Quote by Holly Throsby

#72. He rises from the throne. "Come, have a seat." His voice is replete with danger, lush with menace. The flowering branches have sprouted thorns so thickly that petals are barely visible.
"This is what you wanted, isn't it?" he asks. "What you sacrificed everything for. Go on. It's all yours. #Quote by Holly Black

#73. Being in your thirties is like a game of Snakes and Ladders. You may think you're beating everyone, but you're only one dice-roll away from falling down a snake and suddenly coming last. And the person stuck on square four may randomly land on a ladder and suddenly overtake you in this game to get everything sorted before your ovaries go kaput #Quote by Holly Bourne

#74. a person's life can't be defined by one incident. We are the whole of our experiences. We are the warp, and life is the weft, going up and down around us, transforming us in its wake. Each new line adds to the whole . . . adds to our strength. #Quote by Holly Jacobs

#75. I guess that was the thing about death. You never realize the amount of magic one person had until their magic was gone. #Quote by Holly Renee

#76. She sits up. I can't read her expression, but her cheeks look a little pink. "I didn't think you were going to be here."
"I live here. #Quote by Holly Black

#77. If we didn't love one another, there wouldn't be an issue. #Quote by Holly Hood

#78. He closed his eyes. 'Don't,' he said, but she could hear despair in his voice. It made her even angrier. It made her want to live down to his expectations. #Quote by Holly Black

#79. I like food too much to go on some crazy diet. French fries are my favorite downfall. #Quote by Holly Madison

#80. Everyone's always scared for someone else's generation #Quote by Holly Bourne

#81. Ah, the problem is that you didn't DTR," said Holly wisely. Kami stared. "What?" "D. T. R.," Holly spelled out, slowly and helpfully. "Do try rollerblading?" Kami guessed. "Dump the recycling. Don't taste reptiles. No, that doesn't make any sense at all." Holly wrinkled her nose. "Because the others made perfect sense?" Kami shrugged, and Holly grinned. #Quote by Sarah Rees Brennan

#82. Faeries…?" I ask.

"Yes, yes." He sounds impatient. "The Folk of the Air. Insubstantial, unable to hold one shape. Like the seeds of flowers launched into the sky. #Quote by Holly Black

#83. By the time dad died, the junk was so piled up that there were tunnels instead of rooms. #Quote by Holly Black