Lynda Mullaly Hunt > Quotes

“Everyone is smart in different ways. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life thinking that it’s stupid.”
― Lynda Mullaly Hunt, Fish In A Tree

“Well…alone is a way to be. It’s being by yourself with no one else around. And it can be good or bad. And it can be a choice…. But being lonely is never a choice. It’s not about who is with you or not. You can feel lonely when you are alone, but the worst kind of lonely is when you’re in a room full of people, but you’re still alone. Or you feel like you are anyway.”
― Lynda Mullaly Hunt, Fish in a Tree

“Do you know what courage is? It's being afraid and doing it anyway.”
― Lynda Mullaly Hunt, One for the Murphys

“But most of all, I'll remember how she loved me. I turn away, knowing that I might never get to see Julie Murphy again. But I will know her for the rest of my life.”
― Lynda Mullaly Hunt, One for the Murphys

“You say that you'll grow up to be nobody. But logically.. if nobody's perfect... well then, you must be perfect.”
― Lynda Mullaly Hunt, Fish in a Tree

“One thing's for sure. We're not gonna fit in, but we're gonna stand out" -Keisha”
― Lynda Mullaly Hunt, Fish in a Tree

“I guess sometimes you don't know what you want because you don't know it exists.”
― Lynda Mullaly Hunt, One for the Murphys

“I feel like the things I should say are the things I can't say. And the things I could say are the things I shouldn't say.”
― Lynda Mullaly Hunt, One for the Murphys

“Great minds don't think alike.”
― Lynda Mullaly Hunt, Fish in a Tree

“An older brother is older. A big brother looks out for you and smiles when you walk into a room.”
― Lynda Mullaly Hunt, Fish in a Tree

“What letters do you see backward?” “Well, O, I, T, A, M, V, X, U . . . and some others.”
― Lynda Mullaly Hunt, Fish In A Tree

“maybe “I’m having trouble” is not the same as “I can’t.”
― Lynda Mullaly Hunt, Fish In A Tree

“All these gifts you have, Carley. All these gifts you have." -pg. 157”
― Lynda Mullaly Hunt, One for the Murphys

“Sometimes I wonder. On the pathetic scale, where would I land? I know other kids my age would go to the mall if they cut school, but I'm off to the library.”
― Lynda Mullaly Hunt, One for the Murphys

“Alice in Wonderland - a book about living in a world where nothing makes sense made perfect sense to me" -Ally”
― Lynda Mullaly Hunt, Fish in a Tree

“You regret the things you don't do more than the things you do.”
― Lynda Mullaly Hunt, One for the Murphys

“My grandpa used to say to be careful with eggs and words, because neither can ever be fixed. The older I get, the more I realize how smart my grandpa was.”
― Lynda Mullaly Hunt, Fish In A Tree

“If you put off a vibe that you can handle yourself, other people will start treating you that way. Everything is attitude.”
― Lynda Mullaly Hunt, One for the Murphys

“We've both changed. We're tired of having the world push us into places we don't want to be. We're both scared of losing love that maybe we never had to being with. We can have whatever we want in our lives. It's only a matter of deciding. But we don't have to do it alone. We have each other.”
― Lynda Mullaly Hunt, One for the Murphys

“BE SOMEONE’S HERO”
― Lynda Mullaly Hunt, One for the Murphys

“I believe that the things we put numbers on are not necessarily the things that count the most. you can't measure the stuff that makes us human.”
― Lynda Mullaly Hunt, Fish in a Tree

“Everybody is a genius but if you judge a fish by its able to climb a tree it will live its whole life believing it is stupid.”
― Lynda Mullaly Hunt, Fish in a Tree

“I can't think of anything worse than having to describe myself. I'd rather write about something more positive.”
― Lynda Mullaly Hunt, Fish in a Tree

“But what really gets me is that in order for Mr. Daniels to come up with this plan, he must have thought of me outside of school—when he didn’t have to think of me. I bet other teachers have never let me sit in their head one second longer than they had to.”
― Lynda Mullaly Hunt, Fish In A Tree

“Would you say...that you're yourself around her? I always think that's the true measure of how good a friend is" -Mrs. Murphy”
― Lynda Mullaly Hunt, One for the Murphys

“Friendship is like boogie boarding. You have to learn when to hold on and when to let go.”
― Lynda Mullaly Hunt, Shouting at the Rain

“But there is something you must remember about those feelings deep down inside. They come from your soul, and they’re a precious thing. They should be saved for the ones who’ll be cradling them like a new baby. You don’t hand them off to just anyone. The ones that love you protect your feelings because they’ve been given a piece of you. Others may toss them around for just the same reason.”
― Lynda Mullaly Hunt, Shouting at the Rain

“I begin to think that a foster mother who smokes cigars and makes me sleep in the basement would be a relief.”
― Lynda Mullaly Hunt, One for the Murphys

“I'm afraid to open my mouth sometimes things just come out that get me more in trouble.”
― Lynda Mullaly Hunt, Fish in a Tree

“the sun is always in the sky but sometimes you just can't see it”
― Lynda Mullaly Hunt, Shouting at the Rain