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

- Polly Horvath

When you're a child you never figure a grownup is going to be jealous of you. It's the grownups who seem to have everything. Children give adults far…

- Polly Horvath

You can't replace one dog with another any more than you can replace one person with another, but that's not to say you shouldn't get more dogs and p…

- Polly Horvath

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 in…

- Polly Horvath

We all belong here equally...Just by being born onto the earth we are accepted and the earth supports us. We don't have to be especially good. We don…

- Polly Horvath

There's something about sports. You can be setting fire to cats and burying them in your backyard, but as long as you're playing team sports, people …

- Polly Horvath

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 kn…

- Polly Horvath

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

- Polly Horvath

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 …

- Polly Horvath