Kelly Batten Quotes

#1. I gazed up at the stars as I waited. They twinkled down at me, like a huge handful of diamonds someone had coated in glue and thrown on the ceiling.

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#2. My nerves came back in full force. I'd thrown myself in the deep end, and, feeling like I had no idea how to swim, I had to get back to shore somehow.
"I'm sorry," I whispered.

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#3. I asked a girl once why she was vegetarian. I said, is it because you love animals? And she replied, no it's because I had plants. To that I said, don't ever let someone take you to see the Palace Gardens- you'd both end up in jail.

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#4. She simply stared at me with such a loving expression on her face, I felt like I was her foal. Indah reached her head as far as she could around me, to press me to her. I melted. How could I live without this horse? I wrapped my arms around her neck and let my tears flow.

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#5. You weasel, good-for-nothing, scumbag, swine,
sleazebag, scumbucket, scoundrel, son-of-a-bitch!"
In the midst of everything, we all looked at Rosina,
who smiled sheepishly.
"Sorry. I was reading the Dictionary the other day."
I stared at her with incomprehension.

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#6. Peering around her, I took note exactly where the hundred metre high cliff started. i didn't want to be taking an unexpected flying lesson today.

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#7. You two would get on like a house on fire. Don't douse the flames before you've struck a match.

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#8. Sometimes I found it hard to believe that the person in the mirror was me.

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#9. Who was that?" Layetta asked.
"Nobody."
"You can't take a phone call from nobody. That means
there is no one on the other end of the phone, meaning no phone call. So. Who was it?" I asked.

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#10. When life gives you-' be thankful life gave you anything at all, because it means you are ALIVE: so do something with that beautiful fact

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#11. People say talking about it makes it better. Sometimes talking about it makes it worse.

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