Jennifer L Holm Quotes

#1. i love babymouse books

Jennifer Holm

#2. Everyone things children are sweet as Necco Wafers, but I've lived long enough to know the truth: kids are rotten. The only difference between grown-ups and kids is that grown-ups go to jail for murder. Kids get away with it.

Jennifer L. Holm

#3. Never fear being vulgar, just boring, middle class or dull.

Diana Vreeland

#4. Three Meatloaf Haikus
Oh yucky meatloaf
sitting under the hot lights
so gray and gristly.
Nothing tastes worse than
you, not cauliflower or
even lima beans.
And what is that weird
thing sticking out
a whisker?
hair? a rubber band?

Jennifer L. Holm

#5. I protect myself by refusing to know myself.

Floriano Martins

#6. Like me!" I said. "I have to work hard, too. Why, I haven't thrown manure in over two months!

Jennifer L. Holm

#7. Mr.Clayton?
Didn't you see her ears?
You mean ears turning bright red means you're in love?
I don't know, he mumbles, and looks down, his ears are bright red.

Jennifer L. Holm

#8. I vow to pick up my socks."
"Can I get that in writing?

Cassie Mae

#9. I'd love to hold a koala. They sleep 22 hours a day, eat eucalyptus leaves and just hang out. I want to spend some time with that guy.

Milo Ventimiglia

#10. You grow up real quick, a half-Mexican in a sailor's suit, because I'd be riding the streetcar to school everyday - minding my own business, humming out a 'Frere Jacques' - and I realized that in any other town, this might be considered cute. But you know what it is in San Francisco? Sexy.

Al Madrigal

#11. I am, I believe, a young man on whom a grand joke is being played, fated to live one century, perhaps a second, perhaps a third, only to be scrubbed and rescrubbed from the record, to exit, if I ever do, as if I'd never existed at all.

Daniel Kraus

#12. My only solution for the problem of habitual accidents is to stay in bed all day. Even then, there is always the chance that you will fall out.

Robert Benchley

#13. The only matter that could take Egypt to war again is water.

Anwar Sadat

#14. Only Colin Quinn was direct about it. "Your father doesn't fucking play games. You would never come home with a shamrock tattoo in that house." That's Don Fey.

Tina Fey

#15. He waited at her side, staring... hovering. She had the distinct impression this man wasn't used to being disobeyed. My, but he was an irritating sea captain.

Madison Thorne Grey

#16. Shall we go to Bethlehem, men? Or shall we DANCE

Dave Barry

#17. What is it with folks always talking about where they're from? You could grow up in a muddy ditch, but if it's your muddy ditch, then it's gotta be the swellest muddy ditch ever.

Jennifer L. Holm

#18. I think what you wear on Halloween is important. It says something about you
who you are and what you want to be. There's got to be a reason so many girls go around dressed as princesses and witches.

Jennifer L. Holm

#19. Almost dying is awfully easy. It's the living that's hard.

Jennifer L. Holm

#20. This, I thought, was true love. Someone who made you happy without saying a word.

Jennifer L. Holm

#21. I had to get slow and dumb (not take anything for granted) and watch and see how everything connects, how you contact your thoughts and lay them down on paper.

Natalie Goldberg

#22. Miss Hepplewhite looked pained.
"Miss Peck," she said at last, "a young lady should never, ever, under any circumstances whatsoever, run. Should you find yourself in a situation where you are at risk, it is always preferable to faint.

Jennifer L. Holm

#23. Nobody moves on purpose to Detroit.

Manoj Bhargava

#24. He alone had the courage to do what was right.

Jennifer L. Holm

#25. Papa always said you make your own luck.
And maybe you do.

Jennifer L. Holm