Fish in a Tree 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

“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

“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

“Great minds don't think alike.”
― 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

“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

“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

“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

“I decide that the craziest, strangest, most unbelievable thing I could ever draw is me doing something right.”
― Lynda Mullaly Hunt, Fish In A Tree

“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

“Rain, rain falling down
Down, down on the gound
All the birds go in the trees
They don't like the rain, you see.”
― Lynda Mullaly Hunt, Fish in a Tree

“She doesn't get it. Being funny when you don't mean to be is terrible. Having to laugh at yourself along with everyone else is humiliating.”
― Lynda Mullaly Hunt, Fish in a Tree

“Even when i do something right, I feel like i've done something wrong.”
― Lynda Mullaly Hunt, Fish in a Tree

“I”
― Lynda Mullaly Hunt, Fish In A Tree

“Every word is another shovelful of dirt from the hole I've dug for myself. So I figure my best bet is to shut my mouth.”
― Lynda Mullaly Hunt, Fish in a Tree

“I stand tall, but everything inside shrinks. The thing is, I feel real bad.”
― Lynda Mullaly Hunt, Fish in a Tree

“You can't make people unhear something. I should be used to this, but it still takes a piece out of me every time.”
― Lynda Mullaly Hunt, Fish in a Tree

“Whenever I do my best, they tell me I don't try hard enough.”
― Lynda Mullaly Hunt, Fish in a Tree

“There is a tray full of glass sundae dishes filled with brightly colored ice cream. Strawberry, pistachio, black raspberry. Pink, green, and purple. I like the colors next to each other and wonder what kind of impossible things I can draw about ice cream. Maybe melting rivers of it. And a man with a cone-shaped head sitting in a babana split dish rowing with a spoon.”
― Lynda Mullaly Hunt, Fish in a Tree

“Sometimes a person will do just about anything for a wish to come true.”
― Lynda Mullaly Hunt, Fish In A Tree

“One thing's for sure. We're not gonna fit in, but we're gonna stand out. All three of us. You wait and see. You're going to be a famous artist and Albert is going to cure cancer or invent talking fish or something.”
― Lynda Mullaly Hunt, Fish in a Tree

“But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life thinking that it’s stupid.’” I think hard”
― Lynda Mullaly Hunt, Fish In A Tree

“And I wish I was more like Albert. Seeing him shuffle away in those sneakers makes me want to be better. I'm not perfect, but at least I'm not mean.
And then my heart sinks because I realize that I just was.
I guess I did it because I was lonely. Now I know that there are worse things than being lonely.”
― Lynda Mullaly Hunt, Fish in a Tree

“He doesn't want to know about the real me. It'll be like people in scary movies who think they want to know whats in the basement, but when they find out, they're always sorry.”
― Lynda Mullaly Hunt, Fish in a Tree