Holly Bodger Quotes

#1. My words are like Mummy: butterflies trapped inside a net.

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#2. Instead of fixing things, of making changes, of making improvements, all they'e done has been to break them in reverse.

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#3. Have to wait my turn.
Have to follow the rules.
Have to smile like I agree.
Have to
Have to
Have to
Have to
Choose him.

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#4. this is neither a game of choice nor a life of choice. It's one of influence: Hers. And one of acceptance: Mine.

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#5. I do need to remind you
there is no point in being fair
to others
if you've forgotten to be fair
to yourself.

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#6. Power of a stallion, and the innocence of a foal...

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#7. We girls watch from our boxes like orchids in a greehouse. Sheltered from the past. Blinded to the future.

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#8. You can't make a zebra by painting stripes on a horse.

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#9. We open our desire for a bright future to your hearts

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#10. I want
a future.
a choice.
a place other than here.

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#11. A man is measured
not by the answers he finds
but the questions he asks.
Find an answer
and you stand still.
Stop asking questions
and you die.

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#12. We're told to plug our noses
to escape the smells.
Manure.
Rot.
Poverty?
Reality.

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#13. Nani's allegiance is to her anger
and
anger
runs deeper than blood and skin.
It's set in bone
and bone, once broken,
never
heals the same.

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#14. Do not let anger over the past become the fuel that fire your future

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#15. Piercing my eyes with a look so convincing he could tell me to jump off Agnimar Cliff and my only question would be
Should I go head- or feetfirst?

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#16. Obedience is fickle that way. It's a virtue to its master but a vice to its slaves.

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#17. ...you see what you want
and you want what you see,
but if I have anything to say about it,
that will
never
be
me.

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#18. Some of the families starve themselves so they can fatten up their sons before their tests. This is like the market vendors who display their fruit shiny side up.

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#19. No, we cannot change
the mistakes we've left behind.
But there's one thing we can do -
one thing I must do -
we can choose not
to repeat them.

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#20. You can only give away that which is yours to lose.

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#21. Better to play fair for a life of hate than cheat for a life of love

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#22. They've been promised a full stomach for their success, a noose for their failure...

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