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21 " The richness of our lives depends on what we are willing to notice and what we are willing to believe. "
― Polly Horvath , Mr. and Mrs. Bunny — Detectives Extraordinaire! (The Bunny's #1)
22 " The only really interesting things about someone that makes you want to explore them further is their heart. "
― Polly Horvath , Everything on a Waffle (Coal Harbour #1)
23 " And, I often think, the truth isn't good or bad, it's just the truth. "
― Polly Horvath , The Canning Season
24 " It's better to be fooled a hundred times than never to look. "
― Polly Horvath , My One Hundred Adventures (My One Hundred Adventures #1)
25 " People can be hurt so badly that they choose to just stop in their tracks. "
26 " I left parts of myself some places and found others unexpectedly. New people appeared on the scene and others disappeared before I had a chance to say goodbye. All kinds of ordinary people gave their whole hearts to things you wouldn't think you could give your heart to. "
27 " Don’t worry the trolls don’t come to you. It’s your own darkness that leads you to the trolls. "
― Polly Horvath , The Trolls
28 " No one really understands a family but the people in it and even they each understand it differently. "
29 " I think that it is death alone that makes things poignant. "
30 " Some people, well, most people just seem to show up on your life with no clear purpose. Have you noticed that? They're like dust mites. You know they're there, you just don't know what to do about them. "
31 " My mother smoked too but I guessed by now she had quit the habit, which was, I supposed, one of the advantages of being shipwrecked. "
32 " (T)he only really interesting thing about someone that makes you want to explore them further is their heart "
33 " It’s not the natural disasters you have to fear. It’s the ones that are inside of you, waiting to happen. "
34 " Being together, like being able to see certain stars only with your peripheral vision, isn't something you can create. It's just something that happens to you. "
35 " She was alone in the stillness of the universe a little while before all the confusion began. It was if she could hear it ticking, check in on the life at the very center of it, its wellspring that everyone somehow knows, before it was covered by noise. "
36 " But it didn't matter. Because all it proved was that my mother was sitting out there coatless somewhere, waiting to come home to me. Even as he stared at it, the remark "Your mother's dead" sitting unspoken, like something rotten in our path that neither one of us wanted to be the first to pick up. Even after the kind of day I had had, being taunted at school, and then threatened with incarceration. Even know that when I went home I would face a house full of ghosts, it didn't matter to me. Instead I felt a little stab of joy. "
37 " I would never go home again in quite the same way, but that was okay too. "
38 " I think part of her feared that if Mother could leave her that way, she must be unlovable. And of course, she wasn't. "
39 " It is never a bad thing to take up your fair share of space," said Mr. Bunny ambiguously. "
― Polly Horvath , Lord and Lady Bunny — Almost Royalty! (The Bunny's #2)
40 " It disguises itself as motor vehicle knowledge, but really it's physics, which any other time would be fascinating but not right now, not while you're trying to learn to drive. "