Top 60 Lynda Mullaly Hunt Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Everyone is smart in different ways. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life thinking that it’s stupid.”

— Lynda Mullaly Hunt

2. “It’s just a matter of making a decision and following through.”

— Lynda Mullaly Hunt

3. “Do you know what courage is? It’s being afraid and doing it anyway.”

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4. “You can’t make people unhear something. I should be used to this, but it still takes a piece out of me every time.”

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5. “You say that you’ll grow up to be nobody. But logically... if nobody’s perfect... well then, you must be perfect.”

— Lynda Mullaly Hunt

6. “I have both too many words and not enough. He nods slowly. “Well,” he says. “I’m glad you’re not invisible, Ally. Because this class wouldn’t be the same without you.” I don’t believe him, but it makes me happy he said it. I realize looking at him that, all this time, I haven’t been looking teachers in the face. I’ve been staring into their stomachs while.”

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7. “Friendship is like boogie boarding. You have to learn when to hold on and when to let go.”

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8. “Great minds don’t think alike.”

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9. “One thing’s for sure. We’re not gonna fit in, but we’re gonna stand out” -Keisha.”

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10. “But what really gets me is that in order for Mr. Daniels to come up with this plan, he must have thought of me outside of school – when he didn’t have to think of me. I bet other teachers have never let me sit in their head one second longer than they had to.”

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11. “BE SOMEONE’S HERO.”

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12. “What do you like, then?” “Buffalo wings,” I say. He laughs a little. “What do you like about school?” “Leaving.” He.”

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13. “One thing’s for sure. We’re not gonna fit in, but we’re gonna stand out. All three of us. You wait and see. You’re going to be a famous artist and Albert is going to cure cancer or invent talking fish or something.”

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14. “We’ll just wait for nature. She put us in this predicament and will help get us out. No use shouting at the rain. No one was hurt.”

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15. “I guess sometimes you don’t know what you want because you don’t know it exists.”

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16. “Alice in Wonderland – a book about living in a world where nothing makes sense made perfect sense to me” -Ally.”

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17. “I’m afraid to open my mouth sometimes things just come out that get me more in trouble.”

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18. “I believe that the things we put numbers on are not necessarily the things that count the most. you can’t measure the stuff that makes us human.”

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19. “We’ve both changed. We’re tired of having the world push us into places we don’t want to be. We’re both scared of losing love that maybe we never had to being with. We can have whatever we want in our lives. It’s only a matter of deciding. But we don’t have to do it alone. We have each other.”

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20. “But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life thinking that it’s stupid.’” I think hard.”

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21. “Every word is another shovelful of dirt from the hole I’ve dug for myself. So I figure my best bet is to shut my mouth.”

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22. “I feel like the things I should say are the things I can’t say. And the things I could say are the things I shouldn’t say.”

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23. “An older brother is older. A big brother looks out for you and smiles when you walk into a room.”

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24. “My fingers play with my hospital bracelet. I stare at my name. Carley Connors. Thirteen letters. How unlucky can one person be? I think about my mother. Still there, lying in her hospital bed like an eggplant.”

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25. “I love eggs. Scrambled eggs. Fried eggs. Poached on toast, and boiled eggs. I love peeling the shell off of a boiled egg, don’t you. I even like egg salad, which my brother won’t eat even if someone holds him down...”

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26. “Reading for me is like when I drop something and my fingers scramble to catch it and just when I think I’ve got it, I don’t. If trying to read helped, I’d be a genius.”

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27. “Whenever I do my best, they tell me I don’t try hard enough.”

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28. “I can’t think of anything worse than having to describe myself. I’d rather write about something more positive.”

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29. “You regret the things you don’t do more than the things you do.”

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30. “If you put off a vibe that you can handle yourself, other people will start treating you that way. Everything is attitude.”

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31. “I decide that the craziest, strangest, most unbelievable thing I could ever draw is me doing something right.”

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32. “I stand tall, but everything inside shrinks. The thing is, I feel real bad.”

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33. “I begin to think that a foster mother who smokes cigars and makes me sleep in the basement would be a relief.”

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34. “You can either stay here while they throw shovelfuls of sand on you or just climb out. Your choice not theirs. Then I head toward the stairs, not even loking back at Brandy or Tressa. And it feels really good to step away from the shovels of sand they’ve been throwing on me for weeks and finally climb out of the hole.”

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35. “If. I. Were. Aquaman. I. Would. Summon. The piranhas. To take you away. You could be their queen.”

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36. “Mrs. Muldoon walks down the line, handing out the most beautiful bouquets I have ever seen. Like the ones that brides carry. Dark red ribbons that wind around the stems like a barbershop light pole. Ribbons dangle from the bottom, too. She hands my bunch to me, and I smile thinking of how much my mom will love to see me with them. Keisha.”

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37. “There is a tray full of glass sundae dishes filled with brightly colored ice cream. Strawberry, pistachio, black raspberry. Pink, green, and purple. I like the colors next to each other and wonder what kind of impossible things I can draw about ice cream. Maybe melting rivers of it. And a man with a cone-shaped head sitting in a babana split dish rowing with a spoon.”

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38. “Connecticut is covered with them, but in March the branches are still bare. Like long, gray fingers waving us along as we speed by.”

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39. “I love how Albert can’t choose one character while Oliver wants to write about everyone.”

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40. “When I was younger, I loved math. Everything about math. But in school, math now has letters. Like what does x equal? There are also long stories with characters, and although the story is supposed to end with some number, all the words block my path to getting there.”

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41. “My mouth dries up. I know I am not apologizing for the picture. I am sorry for being there in the first place.”

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42. “You’re talking like a fool saying I don’t understand what it’s like to be different. But the thing is... I’m only different to the people who see with the wrong eyes. And I don’t care what people like that think.”

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43. “He doesn’t want to know about the real me. It’ll be like people in scary movies who think they want to know whats in the basement, but when they find out, they’re always sorry.”

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44. “So instead I stare at the steaming liquid dripping into a coffeepot and start thinking of steaming volcanoes. And dinosaurs standing around drinking coffee, staring up at the giant meteor soaring through the air, commenting on how pretty it is.”

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45. “Only an uncouth person would wear snail snot- Albert.”

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46. “She doesn’t get it. Being funny when you don’t mean to be is terrible. Having to laugh at yourself along with everyone else is humiliating.”

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47. “Even when i do something right, I feel like i’ve done something wrong.”

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48. “After they leave, I look at the three of us and think about how there are three primary colors. Yellow, blue, and red. Those three colors create every other color ever.”

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49. “Veganism is beneficial to the wellbeing of all.”

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50. “Would you say... that you’re yourself around her? I always think that’s the true measure of how good a friend is” -Mrs. Murphy.”

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