Top 120 Holly Bourne Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Being interesting isn’t important. But being happy is. As well as being a person you’re proud of.”

— Holly Bourne

52. “Be you. It’s all you can ever be anyway. But own being you. It’s a fab thing to own.”

— Holly Bourne

53. “People always believe they’re nice in their own heads, that’s what makes it so scary when you look at the state of the world.”

— Holly Bourne

54. “It’s not going to be easy. But then interesting things never are, are they?”

— Holly Bourne

55. “Maybe with enough time passed, pain can be something that you remember fondly because you’re so sure that particular pain has healed.”

— Holly Bourne

56. “I want to change things on my own terms, to show that there’s no right or wrong way to change the world. There’s no entry test. You don’t need to suck anything up. Pay any dues. Just you and your anger and your voice is enough. If you only have the courage to use it.”

— Holly Bourne

57. “Maybe there in a set amount of crying your body needs to deal with any trauma. There’s a certain water-level of tears you need to shed until you can find acceptance or move on or whatever. And, if you don’t cry them out, they just catch up with you.”

— Holly Bourne

58. “Guilt is the luxury of the powerful.”

— Holly Bourne

59. “But I was choosing to walk away from that. Because my heart... my heart was too fragile for someone who had chosen to break it.”

— Holly Bourne

60. “Because there’s nothing more comforting than someone who actually gets it. Really gets it. Because they’ve been to the same hell as you have and can verify you’ve not made it up.”

— Holly Bourne

61. “So many people behave like they think a cinema orchestra is following them around to give them backing music, that they’re the superstar of the universe... and the people who believe this way, they’re the people who tend to hurt others the most. They think they’re the hero of their own story, but, actually, in the pursuit of being so important, they’re often the villain of everyone else’s.”

— Holly Bourne

62. “There was a smell, a musty one that made you feel smarter and the need to talk quietly.”

— Holly Bourne

63. “What people don’t understand about feeling such potent sadness is, when it lifts, it really lets you know what happiness means.”

— Holly Bourne

64. “It’s easy to fall in love when you’re young and the sun is shining and you feel like the world is just there to have an argument with, with someone you adore by your side. But then life happens, and you start fighting against them, rather than with them... You should always pick someone who’s on your side, Amber. It’s too hard to be fighting the world and the person you love.”

— Holly Bourne

65. “I think real kindness, real compassion, is having the strength to stop and try and see where another person is coming from. To try and work out why they’re being the way they’re being. It takes time and patience. It’s not easy, but that’s real kindness.”

— Holly Bourne

66. “Nobody really likes coffee. They just pretend to because drinking coffee makes them feel like a proper adult.”

— Holly Bourne

67. “Sometimes that’s all you can do in life, when it comes to pain – try and understand it. We all carry scars and scorch marks around with us. We cuddle up each night with ghosts of damaging memories – we let them swirl around our heads, never able to settle or heal because we can’t make sense of this terrible thing that happened to us, and why we’re finding it so impossible to get over. You can’t force pain to leave until it’s ready to.”

— Holly Bourne

68. “Because trying to use logic to explain anxiety is like using a banana to open a locked safe.”

— Holly Bourne

69. “So you gotta fight for your right to be ruddy miserable.”

— Holly Bourne

70. “What I couldn’t handle wasn’t the dropping of me as a friend – although that stung like an African Killer Bee – but the selling out of who-you-are and what’s-important-to-you just because a boy likes it. To me that made you a traitor against girl kind... against yourself.”

— Holly Bourne

71. “Crying is a very obvious sign that something isn’t going right in your life. You should not ignore tears.”

— Holly Bourne

72. “Love, as always, is what it comes down to. You have to love. It’s the only way. Love for life. Love for others. And, most importantly, love for yourself.”

— Holly Bourne

73. “Yes. I thought maybe our relationship was different. Maybe it was, for a little while. But I’m not giving you the opportunity to break my heart again, Harry. Maybe this time you’ve broken your own too, and maybe you won’t do anything like this again. I’m not willing to take that chance though.”

— Holly Bourne

74. “All I’m saying is, love changes over time. No person is ever perfect for another person.”

— Holly Bourne

75. “I mean, if I want to kiss someone, it’s like fighting an addiction not getting to kiss them.”

— Holly Bourne

76. “Do you ever worry you’re being a teenager wrong?” I thought of the last three years. “I KNOW I’m being one wrong.” “I mean, what’s wrong with finding songs glorifying domestic violence offensive? What’s wrong with finding live music too loud? What’s wrong with a nice cup of tea and a chat?”

— Holly Bourne

77. “I love the men who don’t need sisters and daughters and wives to make us human and not want us hurt.”

— Holly Bourne

78. “Reality doesn’t wait for you to be ready for it. It doesn’t go away when you tell it to. It’s like a persistent mosquito, determined to suck your blood and leave you with a bumpy itch that you can’t stop scratching.”

— Holly Bourne

79. “I mean, he’s a YORKSHIREMAN. There isn’t any problem that can’t be solved by pretending it doesn’t exist and having a cup of tea.”

— Holly Bourne

80. “It’s such a simple torture – the silent treatment. As basic as tripping someone over or pulling their chair out before they sit down. And yet it’s so very effective. When someone has the willpower to pretend you’re not there, it nullifies you. How do you fight against that humiliation?”

— Holly Bourne

81. “My life is so crap that i cant even think of ten stupid things that can give me reason not to be miserable.”

— Holly Bourne

82. “That’s the thing about love. However you have it, however you’ve had it – it never goes. Once it’s touched you, it’s touched you forever. You’ll be permanently scarred by its brilliance. You can walk through the rest of your life with that wonderful knowledge... Someone once loved me and it was beautiful. No one can take that away from you.”

— Holly Bourne

83. “Romance films are money-spinning cathedrals of love, wobbling in the foundations of unbelievable and damaging stereotypes.”

— Holly Bourne

84. “Be someone you would want to read about.”

— Holly Bourne

85. “I hit publish and slump back in this wet grass, waiting for the likes to come in. For my phone to come alive. I like how I look in this photo. I like the person this Tori is. This Tori has friends and a life and she doesn’t care and she has fun and don’t you wish you could be her? I wish I could be her.”

— Holly Bourne

86. “That can’t be possible.”

— Holly Bourne

87. “She needed to understand her pain and why it had brought her here.”

— Holly Bourne

88. “It was true at the time. But time changes the truth.”

— Holly Bourne

89. “She wasn’t blood, she didn’t grow up with me, but yet she could see it all...”

— Holly Bourne

90. “Happy endings are reserved strictly for the fiction shelves of bookstores.”

— Holly Bourne

91. “I don’t know. How are you supposed to know? Why can’t God come down from the sky with a giant foam finger, point at some bloke, and say, “That one, Evie, you’re supposed to fall in love with that one. He’s not a douche, I checked for you.”

— Holly Bourne

92. “Yes, well, rein it in, Prom King. British people have been successfully repressing our emotions since before your country was even a thing.” We.”

— Holly Bourne

93. “It hadn’t felt safe. Then I told my story, and now I did.”

— Holly Bourne

94. “I hoped he wasn’t a secret chauvinist.”

— Holly Bourne

95. “What was the point? What is the point in love, and promises of it, when it can just jump from one person to another like that?”

— Holly Bourne

96. “Ha, that’s the problem. You have to exert brain control in order to do it, and isn’t a lack of control over your brain why you’re in therapy in the first place?”

— Holly Bourne

97. “Soon my sobs dulled to a whimper. Soon my breathing came back. Soon I was able to get off the carpet. Soon I’d meet my friends for college and pretend it hadn’t happened.”

— Holly Bourne

98. “I’m conscious of laughing attractively, so when the photo goes up on the website in two months’ time, people will think I look pretty. Even though they’ll probably only scroll past to see what they look like, I must still look pretty.”

— Holly Bourne

99. “I don’t need to know whether or not we are capable of magic. Because learning to love yourself, and finding people who love yourself too, that’s the real magic.”

— Holly Bourne

100. “Is any broken heart ever worth it?”

— Holly Bourne