Polly Horvath Quotes

#1. Maybe we live in a universe where all you have control over is your own kindness.

Polly Horvath

#2. The only really interesting thing about someone that makes you want to explore them further is their heart, and Miss Honeycut has a teeny tiny pea-sized one and it takes you nowhere you want to go.

Polly Horvath

#3. Some people, well, most people just seem to show up on your life with no clear purpose. Have you noticed that? They're like dust mites. You know they're there, you just don't know what to do about them.

Polly Horvath

#4. Suddenly I realize that everyone in the whole world is, at the end of a day, staring at a dusky horizon, owner of a day that no one else will ever know.

Polly Horvath

#5. You can be sunk low or as a skunk and still have a joy in your heart. Joy lives like one of those spinning things
a gyroscope in your heart. It doesn't seem to have any connection to circumstance, good or bad.

Polly Horvath

#6. People can be hurt so badly that they choose to just stop in their tracks.

Polly Horvath

#7. I think that it is death alone that makes things poignant.

Polly Horvath

#8. I would never go home again in quite the same way, but that was okay too.

Polly Horvath

#9. Don't worry the trolls don't come to you. It's your own darkness that leads you to the trolls.

Polly Horvath

#10. There's something about sports. You can be setting fire to cats and burying them in your backyard, but as long as you're playing team sports, people think you're okay.

Polly Horvath

#11. Is this what it is to get older, to have adventures you can no longer tell your family because you are moving apart from them? ... Or do you grow up and have adventures you tell no one? Are some adventures only yours alone?

Polly Horvath

#12. You can't replace one dog with another any more than you can replace one person with another, but that's not to say you shouldn't get more dogs and people in your life.

Polly Horvath

#13. I think part of her feared that if Mother could leave her that way, she must be unlovable. And of course, she wasn't.

Polly Horvath

#14. My mother smoked too but I guessed by now she had quit the habit, which was, I supposed, one of the advantages of being shipwrecked.

Polly Horvath

#15. The richness of our lives depends on what we are willing to notice and what we are willing to believe.

Polly Horvath

#16. She was alone in the stillness of the universe a little while before all the confusion began. It was if she could hear it ticking, check in on the life at the very center of it, its wellspring that everyone somehow knows, before it was covered by noise.

Polly Horvath

#17. I am not in the body of life. I hover on the extremities. I float.

Polly Horvath

#18. We read a lot of books. Children's books mostly, because they're always much more truthful than adult books. And much more entertaining, said Mrs. Bunny.

Polly Horvath

#19. No one really understands a family but the people in it and even they each understand it differently.

Polly Horvath

#20. It's not the natural disasters you have to fear. It's the ones that are inside of you, waiting to happen.

Polly Horvath

#21. You know what Sunday is, it's a day with a lot of potential for naps.

Polly Horvath

#22. All kinds of ordinary people gave their whole hearts to things you wouldn't think you could give your heart to.

Polly Horvath

#23. Sometimes it is good to have things happen to you outside of your control. There are parts of yourself you would never discover otherwise.

Polly Horvath

#24. When you're a child you never figure a grownup is going to be jealous of you. It's the grownups who seem to have everything. Children give adults far too much credit.

Polly Horvath

#25. I want someone who puts the whole ball of wax at risk. I want the kind of marriage where we would follow each other out into the stormy fatal sea or I'm not marrying at all.

Polly Horvath

#26. It is never a bad thing to take up your fair share of space, said Mr. Bunny ambiguously.

Polly Horvath

#27. And, I often think, the truth isn't good or bad, it's just the truth.

Polly Horvath

#28. Sometimes you get tempted to make something wonderful even better but in doing so you lose what was so wonderful to begin with.

Polly Horvath

#29. The only really interesting things about someone that makes you want to explore them further is their heart.

Polly Horvath

#30. At heart, we're all violent raging wolves, but in our actions we can be pacifists.

Polly Horvath

#31. Being together, like being able to see certain stars only with your peripheral vision, isn't something you can create. It's just something that happens to you.

Polly Horvath

#32. It's better to be fooled a hundred times than never to look.

Polly Horvath

#33. We all belong here equally ... Just by being born onto the earth we are accepted and the earth supports us. We don't have to be especially good. We don't have to accomplish anything. We don't even have to be healthy.

Polly Horvath

#34. And then she poked him again. Not because he wasn't paying attention but because when she did it the first time she found she liked it. Mrs. Bunny might think she was getting away with this, but Mr. Bunny was silently counting the pokes to pay her back later.

Polly Horvath

#35. It disguises itself as motor vehicle knowledge, but really it's physics, which any other time would be fascinating but not right now, not while you're trying to learn to drive.

Polly Horvath

#36. We can affect people around us so much with our moods. A depressed person can make a room gloomy and a sweet nature can cause the lion to lie down with the lamb.

Polly Horvath