Polly Horvath > Quotes

“The library in summer is the most wonderful thing because there you get books on any subject and read them each for only as long as they hold your interest, abandoning any that don't, halfway or a quarter of the way through if you like, and store up all that knowledge in the happy corners of your mind for your own self and not to show off how much you know or spit it back at your teacher on a test paper.”
― Polly Horvath, My One Hundred Adventures

“You know what Sunday is, it's a day with a lot of potential for naps.”
― Polly Horvath

“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, My One Hundred Adventures

“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, My One Hundred Adventures

“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, Everything on a Waffle

“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, One Year in Coal Harbor

“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, Everything on a Waffle

“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, My One Hundred Adventures

“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, Everything on a Waffle

“All my life I had wanted to travel but what I discovered that year was that the things that you find out become the places that you go and sometimes you find them out by being jettisoned off alone and other times it is the people who choose to stand by your side who give you the clues. But the important things that happen to you will happen to you even in the smallest places...”
― Polly Horvath, Everything on a Waffle

“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, Mr. and Mrs. Bunny--Detectives Extraordinaire!

“At heart, we're all violent raging wolves, but in our actions we can be pacifists.”
― Polly Horvath, Everything on a Waffle

“Yesterday I was so full of hope. My life seemed blessed, full of adventures and answered prayers, and now something very, very bad has happened and it will never be the same again. And it all happened because I was greedy. Because I couldn't have an ordinary life. Because I was so taken with the wonders of the world that I could not be content with anything less than the constant awareness of its miracles.”
― Polly Horvath, My One Hundred Adventures

“I am not in the body of life. I hover on the extremities. I float.”
― Polly Horvath, Everything on a Waffle

“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, Everything on a Waffle

“All kinds of ordinary people gave their whole hearts to things you wouldn't think you could give your heart to.”
― Polly Horvath, Everything on a Waffle

“The richness of our lives depends on what we are willing to notice and what we are willing to believe.”
― Polly Horvath, Mr. and Mrs. Bunny — Detectives Extraordinaire!

“It's better to be fooled a hundred times than never to look.”
― Polly Horvath, My One Hundred Adventures

“No one really understands a family but the people in it and even they each understand it differently.”
― Polly Horvath, My One Hundred Adventures

“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, The Canning Season

“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, My One Hundred Adventures

“And, I often think, the truth isn't good or bad, it's just the truth.”
― Polly Horvath, The Canning Season

“Maybe we live in a universe where all you have control over is your own kindness.”
― Polly Horvath

“I think that it is death alone that makes things poignant.”
― Polly Horvath, My One Hundred Adventures

“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

“The only really interesting things about someone that makes you want to explore them further is their heart.”
― Polly Horvath, Everything on a Waffle

“I left parts of myself some places and found others unexpectedly. New people appeared on the scene and others disappeared before I had a chance to say goodbye. All kinds of ordinary people gave their whole hearts to things you wouldn't think you could give your heart to.”
― Polly Horvath, Everything on a Waffle

“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, Everything on a Waffle

“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, Mr. and Mrs. Bunny — Detectives Extraordinaire!

“People can be hurt so badly that they choose to just stop in their tracks.”
― Polly Horvath, The Canning Season