# Quote — Tom Holt, Expecting Someone Taller

> Once again, Malcolm was moved to wonder at the stupidity, or at least the obscurity, of the King of the Gods; evidently the sort of person who, if asked to rescue a cat from a roof, would tackle the problem by burning the house down.

- Author: [Tom Holt](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-holt.md)
- Book: [Expecting Someone Taller](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-holt/expecting-someone-taller.md)
- Page: 25
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-holt/expecting-someone-taller/once-again-malcolm

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> Suddenly, she was not pretty at all; she looked like a thousand-year-old teenager who wanted something she knew she couldn’t have.

p. 92 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-holt/expecting-someone-taller/suddenly-she-was.md)

> “Humans!” laughed the male duck. “And it’s the likes of you run the world. No wonder the rivers are full of cadmium.”

p. 178 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-holt/expecting-someone-taller/humans-laughed-the.md)

> And, like many missionaries, she was not above a little persecution in the cause of the communication of Enlightenment.

p. 56 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-holt/expecting-someone-taller/and-like-many.md)