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61 " You know, I've worked out that if I lived on Mercury I'd be sixty-six years old tomorrow. I'd be twenty-six on Venus, and half a year old on Saturn. I'm only sixteen because I'm on this planet. "
― Holly Smale , Picture Perfect (Geek Girl, #3)
62 " 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 (Geek Girl, #2)
63 " 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 (Geek Girl, #4)
64 " Czar Nicholas the Second was overthrown by Lenin in 1917."I blink in surprise. "Yes," I say, "he was.""And do you think I want to know that? IT's not even on your exam syllabus. I never had to know that. So now it's your turn to pick up a few pairs of shoes and make ooh and aah sounds for me becuase Jo ate prawns and she's allergic and she got sick and couldn't come and I'm not sitting on a bus on my own for five hours, OK?"Nat takes a deep breath and I look at my hands in shame. I am a selfish, selfish person. I am also a very sparkly person; my hands are covered in gold glitter. "
― Holly Smale , Geek Girl (Geek Girl, #1)
65 " 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 "
66 " a) not thinking about Nick and b) "
67 " 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..... "
68 " I can only conclude that her feelings toward me are very similar to what I've read about love: passionate, random, inexplicable, and totally uncontrollable. She can't help hating me any more than Heathcliff could help loving Cathy. It's simply written in the stars. Which would be quite sweet if she wasn't such a cow all the time. "
69 " People like their high-fashion models to look as deeply unhappy as physically possible You can't have beauty and contentment: it would just be unfair. "
70 " 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. "
71 " Books are the best way to engage in other worlds. You can escape the one you're in. "
― Holly Smale
72 " Humans are supposed to have 70,000 thoughts a day "
73 " Why do you always rescue me?" — "Every Cinderella needs a fairy godmother. But sometimes your fairy godmother needs you right back. "
74 " They say fiction is the closest we ever get to magic. Forget top hats and rabbits: open a book and an entire world will pop out. And it doesn't matter if it's dragons or Victorian orphans or wizards. You are immediately somewhere else and someone else. Transported. It's not like that with textbooks. "
75 " that one teaspoon of a neutron star weighs billions of tonnes, "
76 " The blue whale has a heart big enough for a human to crawl through its ventricles. "
77 " The chances of winning the lottery are approximately one in fourteen million, "
― Holly Smale , Sunny Side Up (Geek Girl)
78 " 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. "
79 " she was camped out in a llama sanctuary in Nepal. "
― Holly Smale , Head Over Heels (Geek Girl, #5)
80 " he good news is: I’m alive. "