My One Hundred Adventures 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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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