One Day You'll Find Me Quotes

“Sometimes I found it hard to believe that the person in the mirror was me.”
― Kelly Batten, One Day You'll Find Me

“Ow! That’s my leg, you know.” She rubbed the sore spot. “I’m gonna have a big bruise there now. Thanks a lot.”
“Just tell everyone you had to fend off a pack of unicorns with your bare hands. ‘Cause you were just walking around, minding your own business, cavorting with nature, when a bunch of unicorns descended upon you unexpectedly, and wanted to practice their horn- fighting with a human, just in case they happened upon a wizard and they had to battle to stay free. A wizard would use his wand, so you grabbed a stick, but the stick broke, so you only had your hands. And one of the unicorns’ horns went through your leg, and ‘cause their horns have healing qualities or whatever, the hole healed, but he was just a young unicorn, so his powers hadn’t developed fully yet, and so you were left with this battle scar that’ll mark you as a hero for the rest of your life.”
There was a brief silence.
“You’re full of crap, you know that, right?”
“Yup. But I feel better for it.”
― Kelly Batten, One Day You'll Find Me

“She simply stared at me with such a loving expression on her face, I felt like I was her foal. Indah reached her head as far as she could around me, to press me to her. I melted. How could I live without this horse? I wrapped my arms around her neck and let my tears flow.”
― Kelly Batten, One Day You'll Find Me

“My nerves came back in full force. I'd thrown myself in the deep end, and, feeling like I had no idea how to swim, I had to get back to shore somehow.
"I'm sorry," I whispered.”
― Kelly Batten, One Day You'll Find Me

“People say talking about it makes it better. Sometimes talking about it makes it worse.”
― Kelly Batten, One Day You'll Find Me

“I hate smug people.”
Ros laughed. “That you do. And so you’re using his phone. He’ll explode, you know.”
“Oh, it’ll be bad. ‘Cause I made all the phone calls on my list.”
There was a pause. “No. You didn’t.”
“I did.”
“Fifty-one phone calls on the off-limits phone?” “Yup.”
“Did you fall down the stairs or something? What is wrong with you?!”
― Kelly Batten, One Day You'll Find Me

“Just before the men closed the tail gate on the float, she strained her head to see me and nodded her head so hard her blonde mane flew around her face—she looked like she was standing in a cloud of icing sugar. She uttered such a quiet neigh, it seemed only I heard it. She stared at me, and closed her eyes. Then she was gone.”
― Kelly Batten, One Day You'll Find Me

“You weasel, good-for-nothing, scumbag, swine,
sleazebag, scumbucket, scoundrel, son-of-a-bitch!”
In the midst of everything, we all looked at Rosina,
who smiled sheepishly.
“Sorry. I was reading the Dictionary the other day.”
I stared at her with incomprehension.”
― Kelly Batten, One Day You'll Find Me

“My mouth fell open in incredulity.
“Ah, Maria. Are you trying to tell me you’ve taken up the sport of fly-catching with your mouth?”
Ros reached over and lifted my chin.
“And an assistant too. So that you don’t scare the little flies away. How wonderful; I didn’t realise it was a team sport. Interesting. Tell me, what do they taste like? I can’t imagine a fly filling any hole in your stomach. How many have you caught?”
“That’s disgusting.” Ros screwed her face up.
“My thoughts exactly.”
― Kelly Batten, One Day You'll Find Me

“What's this one, Mum? There's no return address, and there's like, five stamps on it. Who's it from?"
Leaning forward to get a closer look at the stamps, I didn't notice the fleeting look of immense sadness pass over her face.
"Oh it's nothing, darling."
I raised my eyebrow at her. She sighed.
"An overseas friend. You wouldn't know her."
And before I could ask what 'her' name was, Mum had left the room.”
― Kelly Batten, One Day You'll Find Me

“You two would get on like a house on fire. Don't douse the flames before you've struck a match.”
― Kelly Batten, One Day You'll Find Me

“I asked a girl once why she was vegetarian. I said, is it because you love animals? And she replied, no it's because I had plants. To that I said, don't ever let someone take you to see the Palace Gardens- you'd both end up in jail.”
― Kelly Batten, One Day You'll Find Me

“Peering around her, I took note exactly where the hundred metre high cliff started. i didn't want to be taking an unexpected flying lesson today.”
― Kelly Batten, One Day You'll Find Me

“Who was that?” Layetta asked.
“Nobody.”
“You can’t take a phone call from nobody. That means
there is no one on the other end of the phone, meaning no phone call. So. Who was it?” I asked.”
― Kelly Batten, One Day You'll Find Me

“I gazed up at the stars as I waited. They twinkled down at me, like a huge handful of diamonds someone had coated in glue and thrown on the ceiling.”
― Kelly Batten, One Day You'll Find Me