Top 45 Holly Smale Quotes
#1. Nobody really metamorphoses. Cinderella is always Cinderella, just in a nicer dress. The Ugly Duckling was always a swan, just a smaller version. And I bet the tadpole and the caterpillar still feel the same, even when they're jumping and flying, swimming and floating.
Just like I am now.
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#2. 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.
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#4. 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
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#5. Our stories are drive by who we are and what we do, and not by the events that happens to us.
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#6. 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.
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#7. 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.
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#8. That one teaspoon of a neutron star weighs billions of tonnes,
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#9. Never underestimate the power of a well-placed apostrophe.
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#10. Why do you always rescue me?" - "Every Cinderella needs a fairy godmother. But sometimes your fairy godmother needs you right back.
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#12. 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.
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#13. 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?
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#14. Oh." Dad frowns. "Why hasn't Annabel been teaching you how to walk in heels? I thought we had an agreement: I teach you how to be cool and she trains you how to be a girl."
I stare at him in silence. This explains so much.
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#15. 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.
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#16. I can change my plans. But I can't change my family.
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#17. Tortoises are incredible creatures," Dad says earnestly. "What they lack in elegance and beauty they more than make up for in the ability to curl up and defend themselves from predators."
"What, like me?
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#18. 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.
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#19. 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.
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#20. Because here's the thing about a book: when you pick up a story, you put down your own
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#21. Our future selves are only as good as our past selves believe we can be
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#22. It's 4:40am and i'm standing in the middle of a Quentin Tarantino version of Finding Nemo
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#23. 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.
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#25. Scientist say that music can change the speed of a heartbeat. They failed to add: so can a text message.
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#26. And this way, l'll leave everything behind before it gets the chance to do the same to me.
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#27. 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.
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#28. Adults almost never like doing their jobs from what I can tell.
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#29. Reason to move to New York: I don't to get left behind
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#31. Books are the best way to engage in other worlds. You can escape the one you're in.
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#32. They say that life is just a blank chain, and precious moments are the beads we hang off it to make it beautiful.
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#33. There are 7,123,024,873 people in the world, and nick keeps choosing me
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#34. What are you doing here?" "Obviously I'm doing laundry, Harriet." I raise my eyebrow. He looks completely at ease with this terrible excuse, which - considering the fact that he has no laundry with him - is a little worrying.
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#35. 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.
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#36. You know, I've worked out that if I lived on Mercury I'd be sixty-six years old tomorrow. I'd be twenty-six on Venus, and half a year old on Saturn. I'm only sixteen because I'm on this planet.
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#37. 99.99999999999999999 per cent of every atom consists of empty space. It
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#38. Also," Bunty adds cheerfully, "how many cats did you have when you left?"
"One," Annabel says, putting her hand over her face.
"You have three now." Bunty swings hrt bag over her shoulder. "See you at Christmas, lovelies!"
And my grandmother disappears as abruptly as she arrived.
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#39. We don't have time for all this adorable Darcy and Lizzie tension, Kitten-cheeks.
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#40. Apparently humans share fifty per cent of their DNA with bananas. My father is a constant reminder of that.
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#41. She's ... having an affair with a strawberry jam manufacturer?
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#43. If you don't make yourself irreplaceable, somebody will replace you. Being different is being remembered. Being the same is being forgotten.
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#44. Your daughter is adorable. I've never seen such an alien duck in my entire life.
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#45. 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
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