Holly Smale quotes

“Nobody hopped into a wardrobe to find Narnia; they hopped in, thinking it was just a wardrobe. They didn't climb up the Faraway Tree, knowing it was a Faraway Tree; they thought it was just a really big tree. Harry Potter thought he was a normal boy; Mary Poppins was supposed to be a regular nanny. It's the first and only rule. Magic comes when you're not looking for it”
-- Holly Smale

Source : Holly Smale (2013). “Geek Girl (Geek Girl, Book 1)”, p.24, HarperCollins UK

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“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.”
-- Holly Smale

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“Because here's the thing about a book: when you pick up a story, you put down your own.”
-- Holly Smale

Source : Holly Smale (2015). “All That Glitters (Geek Girl, Book 4)”, p.20, HarperCollins UK

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“Never underestimate the power of a well-placed apostrophe.”
-- Holly Smale

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“...Our stories are drive by who we are and what we do, and not by the events that happens to us.”
-- Holly Smale

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“If you don't make yourself irreplaceable, somebody will replace you. Being different is being remembered. Being the same is being forgotten.”
-- Holly Smale

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“That's the thing about love. You can plan it, and schedule it, and map it out. You can tell it how you want it to be, and where you want it to go, and what it's supposed to do. You can try to make it fit you. But it won't listen to any of it. Love puts itself first, and makes its own plans. It maps you out instead. Maybe that's what makes it perfect.”
-- Holly Smale

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“One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.”

“Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.”

“If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.”

“Life is just a chance to grow a soul.”

“A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.”

Source : "This much I know". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2009.

“Is it a particularly British trait to so utterly adore truly appalling men, from Tony Hancock through to Steptoe and Alf Garnett, Captain Mainwaring, Rigsby, Del Boy, Victor Meldrew and on to David Brent from The Office. The most deeply adored characters are all simply vile.”

“The biggest misconception about me is the bad-boy image that everyone stuck me into due to my tattoos, drug days and the constant changes I make with my hair color.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com

“My world was completely different to other boys my age. When I was six I was earning money, and by 10 I was paying more tax than the parents of other pupils. I feel a lot older than my years. Because I was working with adults, I had to mature a lot quicker.”

“Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.”

“Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.”