Top 120 Holly Bourne Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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

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

— Holly Bourne

103. “This is life, Lottie. There’s no such thing as a happy ending. Because there’s no such thing as an ending. More days keep coming, some good, some bad. You can’t just stay limboed in a moment of happiness. That’s not realistic.”

— Holly Bourne

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

— Holly Bourne

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

— Holly Bourne

106. “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

107. “I have a sudden need to take a shower. A really long shower, scraping my skin clean until it is red raw.”

— Holly Bourne

108. “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

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

— Holly Bourne

110. “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

111. “I will always try to live.”

— Holly Bourne

112. “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

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

— Holly Bourne

114. “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

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

— Holly Bourne

116. “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

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

— Holly Bourne

118. “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

119. “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

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

— Holly Bourne

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

— Holly Bourne

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

— Holly Bourne

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

— Holly Bourne

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

— Holly Bourne

125. “Good memories exist in the naivety of not knowing any better.”

— Holly Bourne

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

— Holly Bourne

127. “Failure is never getting hurt. Because that means you’ve not done anything you cared about.”

— Holly Bourne

128. “That the end of childhood is when you realize adults don’t really know what they’re doing.”

— Holly Bourne

129. “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

130. “That can’t be possible.”

— Holly Bourne

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

— Holly Bourne

132. “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

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

— Holly Bourne

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

— Holly Bourne

135. “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

136. “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

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

— Holly Bourne

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

— Holly Bourne

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

— Holly Bourne