“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”
― Holly Smale, quote from Model Misfit
“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.”
― Holly Smale, quote from Model Misfit
“Never underestimate the power of a well-placed apostrophe.”
― Holly Smale, quote from Model Misfit
“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.”
― Holly Smale, quote from Model Misfit
“It's 4:40am and i'm standing in the middle of a Quentin Tarantino version of Finding Nemo”
― Holly Smale, quote from Model Misfit
“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.”
― Holly Smale, quote from Model Misfit
“There are 7,123,024,873 people in the world, and nick keeps choosing me”
― Holly Smale, quote from Model Misfit
“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.”
― Holly Smale, quote from Model Misfit
“Don't you get it yet,Harriet?" Nick says in total exasperation. "i like that you know about the stars in the rain and the shapes of the clouds and the heartbeat rate of the hummingbird. I like that you know that giraffes don't have vocal cords and the sharks can't stop moving. I like the way you stick your little nose in the air.....”
― Holly Smale, quote from Model Misfit
“Scientist say that music can change the speed of a heartbeat. They failed to add: so can a text message.”
― Holly Smale, quote from Model Misfit
“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”
― Holly Smale, quote from Model Misfit
“Adults almost never like doing their jobs from what I can tell.”
― Holly Smale, quote from Model Misfit
“99.99999999999999999 per cent of every atom consists of empty space. It”
― Holly Smale, quote from Model Misfit
“Because 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 everything we can't.”
― Holly Smale, quote from Model Misfit
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“If you haven't fought for your life for something you want, you don't know what's life all about.”
― Robert Stone, quote from Dog Soldiers
“The deceits which her spinster's sentimentality has practiced on her original good judgment are legendary and colossal; she has this way of speaking of children's hearts as if they were something holy; it is hard for a parent to know what to say.”
― Alice Munro, quote from Dance of the Happy Shades
“Don’t think on what they say, because you don’t have to get yourself right with them. You have to get yourself right with you.”
― Lisa Scottoline, quote from Dirty Blonde
“I can work anywhere," said the Muskrat. "It's all a matter of thinking. I sit and think about how unnecessary everything is."
"Really?" said Moominpappa, much impressed. "Perhaps I might offer you a glass of wine? Against the cold?"
"Wine, I am bound to say, is unnecessary," replied the Muskrat, "but a small drop nevertheless would not be unwelcome.”
― Tove Jansson, quote from Comet in Moominland
“The trick is that you have to believe the lie and believe it so much that the lie becomes the truth.”
― Antonio J. Méndez, quote from Argo: How the CIA & Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History
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