{"author":"Holly Smale","author_id":"Holly+Smale","total_quotes":19,"quotes":[{"text":"They say that life is just a blank chain, and precious moments are the beads we hang off it to make it beautiful.","author":"Holly Smale","tags":["family","friendship","geek","girl","life","london","love","model","new-york"],"id":1386,"author_id":"Holly+Smale"},{"text":"I suddenly realise that it doesn't matter how far I go, or how lost I am, or how lonely I feel. I fit in here. I always will.That's how I know I'm home.","author":"Holly Smale","tags":["emotion","home","humour","model-misfit"],"id":49388,"author_id":"Holly+Smale"},{"text":"I can change my plans. But I can't change my family.","author":"Holly Smale","tags":["family","friendship","geek","girl","life","london","love","model","new-york"],"id":49691,"author_id":"Holly+Smale"},{"text":"...Our stories are drive by who we are and what we do, and not by the events that happens to us.","author":"Holly Smale","tags":["geek-girl","inspiration","personality"],"id":114654,"author_id":"Holly+Smale"},{"text":"Love puts itself first, and makes its own plans. It maps you out instead. Maybe that's what makes it perfect.","author":"Holly Smale","tags":["family","friendship","geek","girl","life","london","love","model","new-york"],"id":126830,"author_id":"Holly+Smale"},{"text":"My Best Friend and I have spent plenty of time together, despite me being in my First Ever Relationship. This is because friends should always come first.","author":"Holly Smale","tags":["family","friendship","geek","girl","life","london","love","model","new-york"],"id":137718,"author_id":"Holly+Smale"},{"text":"Does a caterpillar sit on the same leaf when it's a butterfly? No! It goes for a little fly and sees something of the world. Does the tadpole stay in the same pond once it's a frog? No! It stretches its legs, goes for a jump, explores other waters. Did Cinderella go back cleaning hearths once she married the prince? ... Transformation means moving forward. If a butterfly stays on the same leaf and a frog stays in the same pond, then they may as well have stayed a caterpillar or a tadpole. There was no point in metamorphosing.","author":"Holly Smale","tags":["geek-girl","holly-smale","inspirational","model-misfit","transformation"],"id":243112,"author_id":"Holly+Smale"},{"text":"Nobody really metamorphoses. Cinderella is always Cinderella, just in a nicer dress. The Ugly Duckling was always a swan, just a smaller version. And I bet the tadpole and the caterpillar still feel the same, even when they're jumping and flying, swimming and floating.Just like I am now.","author":"Holly Smale","tags":["change","cinderella","feeling-different","make-over","metamorphosis","transformation"],"id":256590,"author_id":"Holly+Smale"},{"text":"That's the truth about people with obsessively organised plans: we're not trying to control everything in our lives. We're trying to block out the things we can't.","author":"Holly Smale","tags":["control","emotion"],"id":260845,"author_id":"Holly+Smale"},{"text":"Because that's the truth about people with obsessively organised plans: we're not trying to control everything in our lives. We're trying to block everything we can't.","author":"Holly Smale","tags":["family","funny","geek","girl","life","model","young-adult-romance"],"id":262561,"author_id":"Holly+Smale"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":19,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}