Top 160 Holly Jackson Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “The guilt a physical pain in your gut, twisting and twisting, like a hunger that never ended.”

— Holly Jackson

52. “She was on a high cliff edge somewhere between laughing and crying and screaming.”

— Holly Jackson

53. “He was already in bed, but he’d come in to see her earlier, with a whispered.”

— Holly Jackson

54. “She hadn’t almost lost herself, maybe she’d actually been meeting herself for the very first time. And she was tired of feeling guilty about it. Tired of feeling shame about who she was.”

— Holly Jackson

55. “You’ve lost your mind,’ he sneered.’Maybe. So you should be terrified.”

— Holly Jackson

56. “Time is in charge here, not me, and that’s terrifying.”

— Holly Jackson

57. “And though this story does have its monsters, I’ve found that it is not one that can be so easily cleaved into the good and the bad. In the end, this was a story about people and their different shades of desperation, crashing up against each other. But there was one person who was good until the very end. And his name was Sal Singh.”

— Holly Jackson

58. “Are we going to forget everything, curl up and hide? Live our lives knowing a killer is out there watching us? Or do we fight? Do we find them and punish them for what they’ve done to us? Put them behind bars so they can’t hurt anyone ever again?”

— Holly Jackson

59. “I’m sorry I didn’t try harder to protect you. I’m sorry I never got to tell you. I’m sorry I never kissed you.”

— Holly Jackson

60. “Of course,’ she said. ‘I want to be Louis Theroux and Heather Brooke and Michelle Obama all rolled into one.’ ‘Your efficiency offends me.”

— Holly Jackson

61. “Can you stop bleeding all over the murder board, please.”

— Holly Jackson

62. “Andie Bell who then, in turn, could have told any of the names above.”

— Holly Jackson

63. “Little Red Kenny, poor as dirt and a dead mom, but she had potential, hadn’t you heard?”

— Holly Jackson

64. “What if I said you were the right people, in the right place at exactly the right time.”

— Holly Jackson

65. “Ravi hated her, but he would be safe now.”

— Holly Jackson

66. “Victor, the tall Nigerian man, was evidently her stepfather; and Josh, her half brother. But Pip didn’t like those words, those cold technicalities. The people you love weren’t calculated, subtracted, or held at arm’s length across a decimal point.”

— Holly Jackson

67. “Ravi?” Pip said. “Hello, trouble,” he said softly. “Can I talk to you?” –.”

— Holly Jackson

68. “And as horrific and unspeakable as that was, it was even worse than that. Max’s actions were the catalyst for Andie Bell’s death. You might even say a direct cause. Everything came back to Max Hastings, when you really thought about it: Becca traumatized, letting Andie die in front of her and covering it up. Sal Singh dead, believed to be Andie’s killer.”

— Holly Jackson

69. “You’re Pippa Fricking Fitz-Amo-bi. My little Sarge. Pippus Maximus, and there’s nothing you can’t do.”

— Holly Jackson

70. “Maybe laughter was one of the very first things you lost after something like that.”

— Holly Jackson

71. “If she’d lost her mind, then Oliver must have lost his hours ago. How could he ask his little sister to do that? To leave the RV in full view of the sniper? It was madness.”

— Holly Jackson

72. “Yes she did,’ Red said, straightening up to look Oliver in the eye. ‘She did all of it. And I hope she dies on her knees, scared and alone, like she did to my mom.”

— Holly Jackson

73. “We’re partners in crime. That means partners no matter what.”

— Holly Jackson

74. “You’re the leader, the most high-value person here. What is your brilliant plan to escape the active shooter out there in the pitch-black who can see us but we can’t see him?”

— Holly Jackson

75. “If I ever miss a deadline, it will be because the apocalypse has started.”

— Holly Jackson

76. “I will only ask you one more time!’ he screamed, and the knife glinted at her. ‘Take off your clothes!”

— Holly Jackson

77. “Why hadn’t she ever stopped to think how lucky she was? All those people who cared about her, whether she deserved them or not.”

— Holly Jackson

78. “Good and bad didn’t matter here. There were only winners. And he only won if she let him. That was justice.”

— Holly Jackson

79. “He caught her staring: at the fall of his dark hair, at the dimpled line in his chin where her little finger fit, at his dark eyes and the flame dancing inside them from her mom’s new Autumn Spice candle. His eyes were always bright somehow, dazzling, like from within. Ravi Singh was the opposite of dead- eyed. The antidote. Pip needed him to remind herself of that sometimes. So she watched him, took him all in, left none of him behind.”

— Holly Jackson

80. “Cara’s wasn’t the face of a best friend; it was the face of a sister. It was home.”

— Holly Jackson

81. “Sure that maybe you maybe saw him there?”

— Holly Jackson

82. “Machines didn’t lie, only people did.”

— Holly Jackson

83. “She did think about disappearing sometimes, running away and leaving Pip behind. Or disappearing inside her own head, in those rare moments when her mind was quiet, an absence she could just float in, free. But what did disappear mean, really, when it came down to it?”

— Holly Jackson

84. “Collectively we turned a beautiful life into the myth of a monster. We turned a family home into a ghost house. And from now on we must do better.”

— Holly Jackson

85. “Jason Bell was dead, but he wasn’t dead yet; he would be in a few hours. And Max Hastings would be the one who killed him. Finally locked away where he belonged.”

— Holly Jackson

86. “Simon scoffed. ‘Sure, just a misunderstanding. There’s a sniper out there with a high-powered rifle and a laser sight who’s decided to use us as target practice. But yeah, just a misunder standing.’ He’d changed his tune.”

— Holly Jackson

87. “You made it your job.’ He pushed against his knees and stood over her, his voice rising now. ‘You barged your way into my life, offering me this chance I never had before. You can’t take that away from me now; you know I need you. You can’t give up. This isn’t you.’ ‘I’m sorry.”

— Holly Jackson

88. “You did this!” he screamed in her face, spit flying. “You did this somehow!” He pushed harder, grating Pip’s head against the brick. She didn’t fight him off; her hands were free but she didn’t push him away. She flashed her eyes back and whispered quietly, so only Max could hear: “You’re lucky I didn’t put you in the ground too.”

— Holly Jackson

89. “My name is Arthur,” he said, pausing, eyes flicking to Red, latching on. “Arthur Gotti.”

— Holly Jackson

90. “He kissed her, and she glowed with that feeling. The one with wings. “You bring the rain down on them, Pip.” “I will.”

— Holly Jackson

91. “The two of them, Lavoy- adjacent but not Lavoys and didn’t they know it. Except lots of things were actually Red’s fault. This, even.”

— Holly Jackson

92. “She pulled the headphones back over her ears and blocked out the world. No sound, only the fizzing inside her own head. She closed her eyes too, and pretended there was no past, no future. It was just this: absence. It was a comfort, floating there free and untethered, but her mind was never quiet for long.”

— Holly Jackson

93. “Hey, Nat, do you think it’s at all possible that your brother is a serial killer? Yes, I know, I have a history of accusing you and your family members of murder.”

— Holly Jackson

94. “Would it hurt, or would it feel like relief, when the bullet finally split her open?”

— Holly Jackson

95. “Yeah, that sniper won’t know what’s hit him when I slowly charge at him with my Gillette razor.”

— Holly Jackson

96. “While some people might work in their bedrooms, I sleep in my workstation. It’s very different.”

— Holly Jackson

97. “Oh, cool,’ Simon said, between bites. ‘Didn’t know the Mafia was still a thing, I love The Godfather. “Revenge is a dish best served cold,”’ he said in a dreadful Italian American accent.”

— Holly Jackson

98. “Elliot Ward was Unknown. Elliot Ward was the killer. Andie’s killer. Sal’s. Barney’s.”

— Holly Jackson

99. “Ravi had done what they set out to do. But their faces made her seethe. These weren’t just small deceits and innocent gaps in memory any more. This was a calculated, life-changing lie. A momentous treachery unburied from the pixels. And she would not look away or sit until she knew why.”

— Holly Jackson

100. “Outside, Pip stopped in the middle of the parking lot and looked up into the sky, clouds hiding the stars from her, hoarding them for themselves.”

— Holly Jackson