Love and Muddy Puddles Quotes

“The chocolates were a test?” I said. “Yes. And you’ve passed. We needed to make sure you weren’t going to pig out on them.”
― Cecily Anne Paterson, Love and Muddy Puddles

“She twisted her face. “Seriously, this only happened because of me.”
― Cecily Anne Paterson, Love and Muddy Puddles

“Samantha first pointed it out when I was eleven and I made a decision to never smile in a photograph again until they were fixed.”
― Cecily Anne Paterson, Love and Muddy Puddles

“Samantha had absolutely no sympathy for her at all. “Well it’s her own fault,” she said. “If she wasn’t so piggish, she wouldn’t have got so fat and then she wouldn’t have got dropped.”
― Cecily Anne Paterson, Love and Muddy Puddles

“But Shannon wasn’t like that. She liked chocolate and sugar. A lot. It wasn’t obvious at first. When they chose her to be part of the group, she was almost as skinny as me. But as the year went on, her bottom got bigger and bigger. I never actually saw her with a chocolate bar in her mouth, but Samantha”
― Cecily Anne Paterson, Love and Muddy Puddles

“Sam had been kind enough to point out that purple didn’t suit my skin tone after I wore a purple dress to our Year Six farewell. I had thrown out the dress the very next day, despite what Mum said, and refused to look at the photos.”
― Cecily Anne Paterson, Love and Muddy Puddles

“Saffron.”
― Cecily Anne Paterson, Love and Muddy Puddles

“I could be as beautiful. I could be as stylish. This would be the area of life I could shine in.”
― Cecily Anne Paterson, Love and Muddy Puddles

“Especially not for a whole year.”
― Cecily Anne Paterson, Love and Muddy Puddles

“But reality, as they say, bites. Chomps, even. Chews, mashes and swallows. And then spits out the bones at the end. The”
― Cecily Paterson, Love and Muddy Puddles

“We always look good. (“ No!” chimed in Lise. “Perfect!”) We don’t get fat. (“No chocolate or chips,” mourned Isabella. “Or chocolate chips either.” She giggled at her own joke.) We don’t associate with losers. (“We don’t talk to losers, we don’t look at losers, we don’t flirt with losers, we don’t go out with losers,” said Tiger Lily.) There are no secrets. (This is where Saffron spoke up, opening her big blue eyes wide. “We can’t risk our reputations. We don’t want to get surprised if we hear about something you’ve done that might make us look bad. What you do is our business now that you’re in our group. Soooo,” and she shrugged her shoulders, “we need you to be completely honest.”) There are consequences for breaking the rules. (Here no one said anything. Isabella looked scared, Lise looked down, Saffron looked superior and Tiger Lily just looked at me full in the face, narrowing her eyes.) At”
― Cecily Paterson, Love and Muddy Puddles

“Her big blue eyes looked like they were about to fall out of her face. “Can”
― Cecily Paterson, Love and Muddy Puddles