Quotes by Polly Horvath

Polly Horvath

At heart, we’re all violent raging wolves, but in our actions we can be pacifists.

Heart

Our Actions

Rage

I am not in the body of life. I hover on the extremities. I float.

Body

Extremity

Floats

I want someone who puts the whole ball of wax at risk. I want the kind of marriage where we would follow each other out into the stormy fatal sea or I’m not marrying at all.

Balls

Risk

Sea

Is this what it is to get older, to have adventures you can no longer tell your family because you are moving apart from them?…Or do you grow up and have adventures you tell no one? Are some adventures only yours alone?

Adventure

Growing Up

Moving

No one really understands a family but the people in it and even they each understand it differently.

People

Sometimes you get tempted to make something wonderful even better but in doing so you lose what was so wonderful to begin with.

Sometimes

Tempted

Wonderful

Suddenly I realize that everyone in the whole world is, at the end of a day, staring at a dusky horizon, owner of a day that no one else will ever know.

Horizon

Realizing

World

The library in summer is the most wonderful thing because there you get books on any subject and read them each for only as long as they hold your interest, abandoning any that don’t, halfway or a quarter of the way through if you like, and store up all that knowledge in the happy corners of your mind for your own self and not to show off how much you know or spit it back at your teacher on a test paper.

Book

Summer

Teacher

The only really interesting thing about someone that makes you want to explore them further is their heart, and Miss Honeycut has a teeny tiny pea-sized one and it takes you nowhere you want to go.

Heart

Interesting

Missing

The richness of our lives depends on what we are willing to notice and what we are willing to believe.

Believe

Richness

Willing

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Balls

Believe

Body

Book

Cat

Children

Depressed Person

Dog

Earth

Extremity

Floats

Giving

Growing Up

Healthy

Heart

Horizon

Interesting

Jealous

Knows

Lying

Missing

Moving

Naps

Our Actions

People

People In Your Life

Rage

Realizing

Richness

Risk

Sea

Sometimes

Sports

Summer

Sunday

Support

Sweet

Teacher

Team

Tempted

Willing

Wonderful

World

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Quotes by Polly Horvath

Polly Horvath

At heart, we’re all violent raging wolves, but in our actions we can be pacifists.

I am not in the body of life. I hover on the extremities. I float.

I want someone who puts the whole ball of wax at risk. I want the kind of marriage where we would follow each other out into the stormy fatal sea or I’m not marrying at all.

Is this what it is to get older, to have adventures you can no longer tell your family because you are moving apart from them?…Or do you grow up and have adventures you tell no one? Are some adventures only yours alone?

No one really understands a family but the people in it and even they each understand it differently.

Sometimes you get tempted to make something wonderful even better but in doing so you lose what was so wonderful to begin with.

Suddenly I realize that everyone in the whole world is, at the end of a day, staring at a dusky horizon, owner of a day that no one else will ever know.

The only really interesting thing about someone that makes you want to explore them further is their heart, and Miss Honeycut has a teeny tiny pea-sized one and it takes you nowhere you want to go.

The richness of our lives depends on what we are willing to notice and what we are willing to believe.

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