Holly Smale

Geek Girl: Model Misfit

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  • Maria Kolesnikovahas quoted5 years ago
    My face is starting to hurt with all the pretend emotions.
  • Maria Kolesnikovahas quoted5 years ago
    It feels as if somebody’s just stabbed me with a cattle prod
  • Maria Kolesnikovahas quoted5 years ago
    the hour before you’re supposed to wake up, the anterior pituitary gland in the brain releases a polypeptide tropic hormone called adrenocorticotropin, which acts as a stimulant and natural alarm clock
  • Hazel Gracehas quoted5 years ago
    Tabitha?” Dad says. It’s only when he takes the baby and fits her swiftly into the crook of his arm that I remember he’s actually done this before. “Tabitha Manners? As in Tabitha from Bewitched?”

    Annabel laughs. “It’s also Aramaic for gazelle and the cat in Beatrix Potter, so it should keep us all happy. I’m sure if we do enough research we can find a few record-breaking owls and koalas too.” Then she turns back to me. “Come here, Harriet.
  • Hazel Gracehas quoted5 years ago
    I DON’T LIKE HOSPITALS.

    Let’s be honest: nobody actually does. Ostensibly, they’re about making people better, but they’re not. They’re about reminding us that at some stage we all get sick, and we all hurt, and we all get lonely, and sometimes there’s nothing anybody can do about any of it.
  • Hazel Gracehas quoted5 years ago
    For God’s sake. Bella never had to put up with this kind of friendly, bonding nonsense in Twilight.
  • Hazel Gracehas quoted5 years ago
    The dog waited for the rest of his life, and when he eventually died the people of Tokyo built a statue in the place he used to wait to commemorate his loyalty, and the fact that he never, ever gave up.”
  • Hazel Gracehas quoted5 years ago
    Every day for a year Hachiko would come and greet Hidesaburo after work here, at this exact spot at Shibuya station. In 1925 the professor suffered a stroke at work and died, but Hachiko returned to the same spot every single day for nine years waiting for him to come back.”
  • Hazel Gracehas quoted5 years ago
    “Not just any dog, Harriet. That’s a dog called Hachiko. He was a brown Akita dog and he was adopted in 1924 by a Tokyo professor called Hidesaburo Ueno.”
  • Hazel Gracehas quoted5 years ago
    Lady of Shalott (yet another heartbroken lady who didn’t fare very well in lots of water).
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