Model Misfit Quotes

“1. You left a multipack of Mars Bars on top of your wardrobe. Can I have one? Dad x

2. I had three. Hope that's OK. Dad x

3. I'm just going to have one more. Dad x

4. Harriet, your Dad's made himself sick on an entire multipack of Mars Bars again. Please don't leave sweets where we can find them. A x”
― Holly Smale, Model Misfit

“Never underestimate the power of a well-placed apostrophe.”
― Holly Smale, Model Misfit

“That's the truth about people with obsessively organised plans: we're not trying to control everything in our lives. We're trying to block out the things we can't.”
― Holly Smale, Model Misfit

“I suddenly realise that it doesn't matter how far I go, or how lost I am, or how lonely I feel. I fit in here. I always will.
That's how I know I'm home.”
― Holly Smale, Model Misfit

“It's 4:40am and i'm standing in the middle of a Quentin Tarantino version of Finding Nemo”
― Holly Smale, Model Misfit

“Does a caterpillar sit on the same leaf when it's a butterfly? No! It goes for a little fly and sees something of the world. Does the tadpole stay in the same pond once it's a frog? No! It stretches its legs, goes for a jump, explores other waters. Did Cinderella go back cleaning hearths once she married the prince? ... Transformation means moving forward. If a butterfly stays on the same leaf and a frog stays in the same pond, then they may as well have stayed a caterpillar or a tadpole. There was no point in metamorphosing.”
― Holly Smale, Model Misfit

“There are 7,123,024,873 people in the world, and nick keeps choosing me”
― Holly Smale, Model Misfit

“That's the beauty of the summer holidays. It's as if life is just a big Etch-a-Sketch, and once a year you get to shake it vigorously up and down and start again.”
― Holly Smale, Model Misfit

“Scientist say that music can change the speed of a heartbeat. They failed to add: so can a text message.”
― Holly Smale, Model Misfit

“Did you know that the chances of being in a plane crash are less than 0.00001 per cent? That means that you’re more likely to be killed by a donkey or to naturally conceive identical quadruplets.” Bunty”
― Holly Smale, Model Misfit

“Don't you get it yet,Harriet?" Nick says in total exasperation. "i like that you know about the stars in the rain and the shapes of the clouds and the heartbeat rate of the hummingbird. I like that you know that giraffes don't have vocal cords and the sharks can't stop moving. I like the way you stick your little nose in the air.....”
― Holly Smale, Model Misfit

“Humans are supposed to have 70,000 thoughts a day”
― Holly Smale, Model Misfit

“OH, MY MINI-HUMMINGBIRDS, THIS IS THE BEST DAY THAT HAS EVER BEEN BORN IF DAYS WERE BORN WHICH THEY’RE PROBABLY NOT BUT WHO CARES I MADE IT! I’M IN! I’M FINALLY IN PROPER FASSSHHHIIIOOON.”
― Holly Smale, Model Misfit

“Because that's the truth about people with obsessively organised plans: we're not trying to control everything in our lives. We're trying to block everything we can't.”
― Holly Smale, Model Misfit

“Have”
― Holly Smale, Model Misfit

“He leans over the bed and peers at the lump in Annabel's arms.
"When do her eyes open?"
"I didn't give birth to a kitten, Richard. Her eyes have already opened. She's asleep.”
― Holly Smale, Model Misfit

“Then I think about how different I feel from the way I did when I went there. As if I'm still me, but stronger. As if I've found my wings, and I finally know what to do with them.”
― Holly Smale, Model Misfit

“I feel like Alice when she drinks the potion in the White Rabbit's house. Except that this time there's no chimney or window to stick an arm or leg out of, no cake to eat that will make me smaller, and no lizards running around, yelling at me.
Actually, I'm quite glad about that last point. I don't think shouting lizards tend to help situations like this.”
― Holly Smale, Model Misfit

“spending”
― Holly Smale, Model Misfit

“99.99999999999999999 per cent of every atom consists of empty space. It”
― Holly Smale, Model Misfit

“repercussions.”
― Holly Smale, Model Misfit

“Adults almost never like doing their jobs from what I can tell.”
― Holly Smale, Model Misfit