All That Glitters Quotes

“Because here's the thing about a book: when you pick up a story, you put down your own”
― Holly Smale, All That Glitters

“We don't unfold ourselves like pieces of paper for everyone to see: that's not how humans work. There are always parts of us we shut away or hide. Bits of ourselves we can't touch because they're too precious and buried too deep. Fragments of truth we barely admit to ourselves. Because sometimes editing our own story is the only way to get through it.”
― Holly Smale, All That Glitters

“There's a humpback whale in the ocean that sings at fifty-two hertz: too low for any other whale to hear. Scientists aren't sure if it's a genetic anomaly, or a sole survivor of an extinct species, or just a whale who accidentally learnt the wrong song. They just know that it's probably the loneliest mammal on earth.”
― Holly Smale, All That Glitters

“Because falling in love doesn't have to mean dropping your best friend in the process.”
― Holly Smale, All That Glitters

“I’ve fought dragons, attended balls and chased a whale. I’ve won wars, lost court cases, travelled India, ridden broomsticks and stranded myself on numerous islands. I’ve died a dozen times. Because here’s the thing about a book: when you pick up a story, you put down your own.”
― Holly Smale, All That Glitters

“If people are kind to you, it’s because you are kind to them. If people are there for you it’s because you are there for them.”
― Holly Smale, All That Glitters

“If people are kind to you, it's because you're kind to them. If people are there for you, it's because you are there for them.”
― Holly Smale, All That Glitters

“Because here’s the thing about a book: when you pick up a story, you put down your own.”
― Holly Smale, All That Glitters

“Dear Nick,
I Know we made this decision together.
I know we both thought it would be less painful to break up before the distance did it for us. I really believed it was the right thing to do: that it wouldn't hurt as much this way. But I can't imagine anything could be harder than this.
And I don't think I'm OK.
I came back from New York and I was so devastated I shut myself away from my best friends, and now they've shut themselves away from me too.
I've done everything I can to feel happy again. I've been to Morocco and ridden on camels and danced in the desert: I've chased my inner star. I've thrown myself into modelling and done whatever it takes to make new Friends at school so I'm not alone, even though I don't really understand them most of the time and I don't think they understand me either. I'm trying so hard to move on without you.
But I'm not, Nick. I'm not moving anywhere.
All the things I wrote in the last letter... they weren't true. Or they were, but it wasn't what I really meant. I was hiding behind Facts and figures because I didn't Know how to say this:
Every day you're changing, you're growing, you're living, you're out there being you, and the only thing staying the same is me.
I'm still here, holding on to you.
Stuck in the past. Trapped in it. Burying myself in it.
Drowning in it. And I don't know what to do to make it better.
I miss you, Nick. I've missed you every day, every hour and every second since you've been gone.
And I miss the bit of me you took with you.
Harriet xxx”
― Holly Smale, All That Glitters

“Be mysterious - nobody likes to know everything about anyone.”
― Holly Smale, All That Glitters