Top 120 Holly Bourne Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Guts and hearts aren’t always the most compatible – I’m starting to learn that. They pull in different directions, ignoring one another when they really shouldn’t.”

— Holly Bourne

102. “Being a woman, in this world, ultimately makes you crazy.”

— Holly Bourne

103. “Because the week the cinema closed? Well. That was the week we broke up. Ahh, come on. You knew this was coming.”

— Holly Bourne

104. “Smiling is sometimes the only way to stop yourself from crying.”

— Holly Bourne

105. “Most of the time, life is all “What’s next?” “Who’s next?” “Where the HELL am I going, please?” But on anniversaries, you take the time to stop and look back and it’s like watching a play of your past dance across your memory. At.”

— Holly Bourne

106. “The only love affair I needed to invest in right now was one with myself. Spend some time with me. Figuring out myself and why I picked the relationships I did. I was holding out my heart to me. Because I’d realised I was the only person who could give me a happily-ever-after.”

— Holly Bourne

107. “I smiled back at Ma because smiling is sometimes the only way to stop yourself crying.”

— Holly Bourne

108. “There’s a certain type – who use their diagnosis like a human shield. They think it’s a reason to find offence in anything. Accuse everyone of triggering them. Act like the world should wrap them up in cotton wool and lie coats over puddles for them just because they’re on antidepressants or whatever.”

— Holly Bourne

109. “Sometimes it only takes one person to tell you a different story. A person you love and respect.”

— Holly Bourne

110. “I’d been playing a game that was impossible to win. For a prize that didn’t exist.”

— Holly Bourne

111. “Jane simpered and curled herself back around Joel, like he’d said something romantic rather than creepy and sinister.”

— Holly Bourne

112. “I can’t, guys,” I said. “Tonight I’m making a cherry pie from scratch.”

— Holly Bourne

113. “It was like I’d climbed Everest, had the summit in my sight, the flag in my hand, all ready to pierce it into the top of the mountain and say, “Whoopdedoo, I made it,” and then an avalanche from out of nowhere swept me right back to the bottom of the mountain again. Was it worth bothering to try and climb it again? I was exhausted. I’d already climbed it. I didn’t want to... but, then, what other choice was there?”

— Holly Bourne

114. “Did all the horrid little moments where girls got treated like crap somehow create a society where the horrid big moments could happen.”

— Holly Bourne

115. “His heart had changed channels, even though our show was still playing.”

— Holly Bourne

116. “Of course, you’re always a cynic before you fall in love yourself...”

— Holly Bourne

117. “It’s hard enough, feeling the clock ticking and yet life not obliging to give you the things others have. To feel defunct and left behind and scared as hell about it – and the more nervous you get about it, the more you give off some smell that makes it less likely to happen.”

— Holly Bourne

118. “Well, the weird thing about people,” polly said, “it’s, so very often, they’d rather feel important than feel happy.”

— Holly Bourne

119. “I just don’t think it’s possible for anyone in the world to love anyone as much as I love you right now.”

— Holly Bourne

120. “Who cares what a writer looks like as long as their words are beautiful?”

— Holly Bourne

121. “It’s not fair to set people tests and then get annoyed when they fail them.”

— Holly Bourne

122. “I wanted to grab his mum’s face and yell, “I’m not a horrible person, I’m not. But I’m broken too and I’ve never been on the recovering end of this behaviour before and I can’t handle it and I have to look after me first, before anyone else.”

— Holly Bourne

123. “I caught up with him and he slung an arm around me, casually, like he’d been allowed to put his arm around me for years.”

— Holly Bourne

124. “He’s been so changeable with her I’m surprised he’s not been accepted to Hogwarts for his transfiguration skills.”

— Holly Bourne

125. “Nobody tells you that large houses have this horrible habit of making you feel utterly alone.”

— Holly Bourne

126. “Just keep telling the truth, Paige,” he said. “I know it’s hurting, but it’s working.”

— Holly Bourne

127. “Were these my options? Easy lay or mental? A lie, or alone? Were these the only options boys gave you? Was it mental to want someone to love you? Was it mental to want to be courted before a guy but an actual piece of his body inside your body? Was it mental to want a message after you’d kissed someone? Was it mental to want the most normal thing in the world- a relationship? One that didn’t make your heart feel full of bogeys?”

— Holly Bourne

128. “The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours.”

— Holly Bourne

129. “Maybe all you needed in life was the belief you could change things. Somehow. Some way.”

— Holly Bourne

130. “She wouldn’t have understood. Or worse, she would’ve pretended to understand, but then got annoyed when her support didn’t magically cure me.”

— Holly Bourne

131. “I will always try to live.”

— Holly Bourne

132. “Hell is other people and what they do in the anonymous dark of the cinema.”

— Holly Bourne

133. “It takes guts to listen to our gut...”

— Holly Bourne

134. “Why would anyone get drunk? Why does anyone need anything like that to escape the world, when the world is its own antidote?”

— Holly Bourne

135. “I’ve used up so many tears on you already, and it’s not helping me get over this any better.”

— Holly Bourne

136. “Time can be strange sometimes. It can leave imprints in particular places, leaving ghosts of memories trapped.”

— Holly Bourne

137. “It was immediately obvious that Harry had hints of fuckboy about him.”

— Holly Bourne

138. “We need to kill with kindness. Cure with compassion.”

— Holly Bourne

139. “But what if you needed to get what you want... just once?”

— Holly Bourne