Top 120 Holly Bourne Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “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

102. “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

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

— Holly Bourne

104. “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

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

— Holly Bourne

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

— Holly Bourne

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

— Holly Bourne

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

— Holly Bourne

109. “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

110. “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

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

— Holly Bourne

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

— Holly Bourne

113. “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

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

— Holly Bourne

115. “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

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

— Holly Bourne

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

— Holly Bourne

118. “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

119. “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

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

— Holly Bourne

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

— Holly Bourne

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

— Holly Bourne

123. “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

124. “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

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

— Holly Bourne

126. “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

127. “I will always try to live.”

— Holly Bourne

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

— Holly Bourne

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

— Holly Bourne

130. “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

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

— Holly Bourne

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

— Holly Bourne

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

— Holly Bourne

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

— Holly Bourne

135. “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

136. “That can’t be possible.”

— Holly Bourne

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

— 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