Top 35 Carrie Hope Fletcher Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “In the words of Madame Leota in the film The Haunted Mansion, ‘You try, you fail, you try, you fail, but the only true failure is when you stop trying.”

— Carrie Hope Fletcher

2. “Don’t set yourself on fire to keep others warm.”

— Carrie Hope Fletcher

3. “Don’t let the fear of being alone or the fear of not finding someone make you settle for less than what you deserve.”

— Carrie Hope Fletcher

4. “Don’t ditch your childhood dreams just because you dreamt them up as a child.”

— Carrie Hope Fletcher

5. “Do you think bad people feel remorse for the things they do? No. We feel bad even when we haven’t done anything wrong! We feel shame and we feel lonely. And we try to be better because we don’t want the world to think we’re terrible people because deep down, we know we’re not.”

— Carrie Hope Fletcher

6. “The person you choose to share your life with is someone who is simply along for the ride. They aren’t your life itself. Your be all and end all. You merely have a mutual agreement that you’re sharing a journey. So if they choose to bail, it’s disappointing and hurtful of course but... the journey still continues. With all of its highs and lows and triumphs and fireworks. But now there’s a free space in your car for someone who will appreciate it better. Keep going.”

— Carrie Hope Fletcher

7. “You can’t have rainbows without rain.”

— Carrie Hope Fletcher

8. “You were my single greatest adventure.”

— Carrie Hope Fletcher

9. “Yes, that dream ultimately failed, but I learned so much. Mostly tiny things, but it only takes a spark to light a fire. All those tiny things accumulated to make me who I am. If none of it had happened, I could have lived a far worse lie than I did. That’s why, despite all the heartbreak, the failure and the secrets, if I was given the chance to go back in time and change things, I wouldn’t. Not even a second.”

— Carrie Hope Fletcher

10. “A certain kind of magic is born when the curtain rises. Intoxicated by the smell of the greasepaint and powered by the glow of the footlights, lovers successfully elope, villains get their just deserts and people die in epic stunts and yet live to tell the tale. Thousands pay to sit and be fooled by illusions and still jump to their feet to applaud despite their gullibility. It’s an inexplicable, delicious, addictive power that keeps people entranced and coming back for more, again and again.”

— Carrie Hope Fletcher

11. “As she placed her stil-beating heart in the hole she’d dug, there on it’s surface another golden fleck swirled into existence. It was then that she knew she was doing the right thing. Keeping her own heart when she’d already decided who it belonged to felt wrong, as if she was holding stolen possessions. No. Her heart was no longer hers, couldn’t be Vincent’s, and sadly, was never to be Jim’s.”

— Carrie Hope Fletcher

12. “He was a giant who had caught a butterfly and knew he’d only kill it if he kept it but was so reluctant to let it go for its beauty made him something he wouldn’t be without it: happy.”

— Carrie Hope Fletcher

13. “It’s the people who have no idea what it’s like to truly be different who do scream about it. If they really knew what it was like, to feel so isolated because of that difference, they wouldn’t wish it upon themselves.”

— Carrie Hope Fletcher

14. “I believe that there are people in this world, multiple people, be it friends, family or partners, whose souls are made of the same stuff as yours. Like you’re all cut from the same fabric of the universe and when you find each other, something clicks into place and things make more sense than they used to.”

— Carrie Hope Fletcher

15. “This book is for those who said I’d never get anywhere in life and those who never doubted for a second that I would. Without either of you, I wouldn’t be here. Thank you.”

— Carrie Hope Fletcher

16. “I truly believe that the amount you hurt is equal to the amount you loved that person.”

— Carrie Hope Fletcher

17. “We ignore our bad feelings and inner demons because it’s easier, which leaves these beings free to pull on the puppet strings.”

— Carrie Hope Fletcher

18. “People are people. Ever changing, complicated and wonderfully layered.”

— Carrie Hope Fletcher

19. “You show me a girl who would be okay with a guy who treats her exactly like she’s his girlfriend but won’t actually call her his girlfriend? It’s madness. It makes no sense.”

— Carrie Hope Fletcher

20. “There were rules that told him he was supposed to wait three days before he called her again after tonight, and that he was supposed to seem uninterested to make her want him more, but he had never liked playing games that involved manipulating how people felt. Feelings were confusing enough without people toying with them to make them fit their own needs.”

— Carrie Hope Fletcher

21. “It’s the future, love, it’s always changing.”

— Carrie Hope Fletcher

22. “To the voices in our heads that tell us we aren’t good enough: do be quiet.”

— Carrie Hope Fletcher

23. “We welcome that kind of shrapnel so that when it twinges in our souls we’re filled with that glowing feeling that comfort us in our darkest hours and whispers from somewhere inside that our own happiness isn’t impossible nor is it entirely lost.”

— Carrie Hope Fletcher

24. “Things haven’t always been this bad, therefore they won’t always be this bad.”

— Carrie Hope Fletcher

25. “As individuals they were stone, but together they were glass.”

— Carrie Hope Fletcher

26. “Embrace the wrongness because it’ll make the eventual rightness even sweeter.”

— Carrie Hope Fletcher

27. “To me, the world sounds warm and hushed.”

— Carrie Hope Fletcher

28. “As individuals they were stone, but together they were glass, and their families danced a ballet around them, careful not to ripple the peace they had found.”

— Carrie Hope Fletcher

29. “Theatres have a certain kind of magic.”

— Carrie Hope Fletcher

30. “Pursuing dreams can be daunting. It feels like you’re standing on the edge of a cliff staring at your dream as it sits on a cloud, floating out in the open air, and all you need to do is take that leap to see if you’ll fall or if you’ll fly.”

— Carrie Hope Fletcher

31. “By the end of our lives, we’re covered in battle scars and shrapnel.”

— Carrie Hope Fletcher

32. “The colours of her heart represented the deeds she’d done, both good and bad, but the faint smell of treacle told her that, overall, she had a sweet heart.”

— Carrie Hope Fletcher

33. “Did someone have to always be the best at something in order for it to have worth? Was life that black and white? Could she merely be just okay at something, even good at a push, and be content with just telling stories that made people feel things, despite not winning awards left, right and centre or knowing her name as an author wouldn’t be remembered and revered for the rest of time?”

— Carrie Hope Fletcher

34. “Everyone is on a journey at any given moment in their lives.”

— Carrie Hope Fletcher

35. “I wasn’t very good with people either until recently... Turns out I just wasn’t very good with myself.”

— Carrie Hope Fletcher

36. “You’ll be able to find the strength to love someone just that much again once you’ve recovered from the heartbreak.”

— Carrie Hope Fletcher