# Quote — Tom Holt, Expecting Someone Taller

> You see, the last thing my daughter wants is to be happy. She’d hate it. No, what she wants is to be finally, definitively unhappy, and for it all to be my fault. It’d finally confirm all her dearest illusions about how her life has been ruined. People like that would far rather be right than happy.

- 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: 133
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-holt/expecting-someone-taller/you-see-the

## More from this book

> 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)