Top 250 Holly Jackson Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “Making people leave her before they chose to go anyway. Same result in the end, because everybody left eventually, but it hurt less. That was what life was, choosing the way that hurt less.”

— Holly Jackson

202. “He’d had to do that twice. Hold the woman he loved in his arms as she lay dying.”

— Holly Jackson

203. “Bel forgot, for a moment, that that was her; the first part of her name that she’d amputated years ago. She didn’t know Rachel had called her Anna; no one had ever told her.”

— Holly Jackson

204. “You would die within the first half an hour of any apocalypse scenario, let’s be honest.”

— Holly Jackson

205. “She’s here, isn’t she?” Pip said. “Andie’s here and she’s alive?” “Yes.”

— Holly Jackson

206. “I’m a ticking time bomb, Ravi. I can’t have the people I love near me when it goes off. Especially not you.”

— Holly Jackson

207. “Bel chose Dad. He was her constant, the one who’d never leave.”

— Holly Jackson

208. “1 year, 7 months, and 28 days dater, day 694. 3 minutes after the verdict was read in State of Connecticut vs. Max Hastings: Hey Sarge, remember me?”

— Holly Jackson

209. “The name Rachel Price is almost synonymous with mystery. Because her disappearance was like a puzzle, and it’s human nature to want to solve a puzzle, don’t you think?”

— Holly Jackson

210. “The woman stared back at her, like she knew something too. She was Rachel Price. Reappeared.”

— Holly Jackson

211. “It wasn’t me,” Ant said. “I didn’t break into that safe and I didn’t destroy that will.” “Mm-hmm,” Cara added. “Sounds exactly like what a murderer would say.”

— Holly Jackson

212. “Turns out dying feels a lot like living.”

— Holly Jackson

213. “Let me know when you remember who I am. Who you are.”

— Holly Jackson

214. “Older generations, Pip said disapprovingly, they just don’t understand the allure of pyjamas. So, what did you want to show us?”

— Holly Jackson

215. “Do you care what people think, if you know you’re right?”

— Holly Jackson

216. “The beginning was the end and the end was the beginning.”

— Holly Jackson

217. “Yeah,” Pip whispered, looking down at him. Max Hastings. Her cornerstone. The upturned mirror by which she defined herself, everything he was and everything she wasn’t. “It sucks when someone puts something in your drink and then ruins your life, huh?”

— Holly Jackson

218. “I think I’ve spent so long waiting for it all to begin, for life to really start, that I missed out on what it was really all about.”

— Holly Jackson

219. “And there, just beneath her heartbeat, under layers of muscle and sinew, was the sound of a gun going off six times.”

— Holly Jackson

220. “He was her life raft, her cornerstone for what good truly meant. Didn’t he know that?”

— Holly Jackson

221. “I spent her whole life trying to teach her, but she never listened. Just like Phillipa and Melissa and Bethany and Julia and Tara. Too loud, all of you. Speaking out of turn. That’s not how it’s supposed to be. You’re supposed to listen to me. That’s all. Listen and do what you’re told. How is that so hard?”

— Holly Jackson

222. “Taken Too Soon.’ Not soon enough, it should say.”

— Holly Jackson

223. “You’re lucky I didn’t put you in the ground too.”

— Holly Jackson

224. “Not a monster, just a man. A familiarity in the way he held his shoulders. The DT Killer showed her his face. Showed her the glint in his smile. It wasn’t the face she thought she’d see. It was Jason Bell.”

— Holly Jackson

225. “It was still there, every time she opened the front door. It wasn’t real, she knew that, just her mind filling in the absence, bridging the gap. She heard it: dog claws skittering, rushing to welcome her home. But it wasn’t, it couldn’t be. It was just a memory, the ghost of a sound that had always been there.”

— Holly Jackson

226. “Pip wasn’t there to save Andie, but maybe Andie was there to save her.”

— Holly Jackson

227. “Like you just want to set fire to the world and watch it burn.”

— Holly Jackson

228. “Did she? More than anything in the whole wide world? Well then, why did she leave Bel behind in the backseat of her car just forty-eight hours later? Disappeared forever. Explain that one.”

— Holly Jackson

229. “Someone else had already replaced the knife.”

— Holly Jackson

230. “I think life is about finding your person, your one person.”

— Holly Jackson

231. “She wasn’t fine but she was alive and, really, how was that much different from the rest of her life?”

— Holly Jackson

232. “The people who loved you, the ones who really cared, they would always come back. Sometimes, they even came back from the dead.”

— Holly Jackson

233. “She’d been looking out for trouble, and so it had found her.”

— Holly Jackson

234. “It still had that buzz, that same energy all rest stops had: that clash of those too heavy-eyed and those too wired, the nearly-theres and the just-beguns.”

— Holly Jackson

235. “Oh, and don’t tell them the only reason you started this project was because you fancied me. You know, think of a more noble reason. Don’t feel bad, You couldn’t help yourself, I’m ravishing, get it? Ravi – shing. Ravi Singh.”

— Holly Jackson

236. “I’m sorry,” Billy cries. Jet isn’t. She’s home, because she’s here with Billy. He holds her, tucks her hair out of her face.”

— Holly Jackson

237. “Charlie and Bel never spoke, even though they’d been given microphones. They were just props, the picture of a reunited family. Happy, but not too much, Dave had told them. It wasn’t a true happy ending until the man was caught.”

— Holly Jackson

238. “Josh! Why is the dog wearing my shirt!” Pip’s dad shouted, the sound floating upstairs.”

— Holly Jackson

239. “From the ashes of her anger a new creature was born, creating itself from the cinders and dust. A feeling that fell between terror and doubt, between chaos and logic.”

— Holly Jackson

240. “I’m sorry that I’m not Emily. But I was never supposed to be. Took me a while to learn that, and I hope you can see it too. I spent my whole life waiting because I was trying to live a future that was never mine. And I did it because I wanted you to be proud of me. To just once say “Good Job, Jet.” I needed it, lived for it, and I don’t think that was healthy, for either of us.”

— Holly Jackson

241. “I love you,” she said. “I love you,” he said back.”

— Holly Jackson

242. “Cara’s dad is giving you a lift back. If you get home before Mum and I are back from the cinema, will you let the dog out for a wee?”

— Holly Jackson

243. “What are you saying?′ she said. ‘This isn’t like you.’ ‘What if it is?’ Pip rose from the stool. ‘What if this is exactly like me?”

— Holly Jackson

244. “I don’t think your brother did it – and I’m going to try to prove it.”

— Holly Jackson

245. “That’s what she said -Simon.”

— Holly Jackson

246. “She loved the smell here, an ancient kind of smell, stale and timeless. You could get lost in the labyrinth of dark mahogany bookshelves labeled with shining gold metal letters.”

— Holly Jackson

247. “Victor and Josh weren’t just three-eighths hers, not just forty per cent family, they were fully hers. Her dad and her annoying little brother.”

— Holly Jackson

248. “Who will look for you when you’re the one who disappears? Ps. remember to always kill two birds with one stone.”

— Holly Jackson

249. “Maybe the rain would help: water down the rage until she was no longer ablaze, just the charred parts left behind.”

— Holly Jackson

250. “Sometimes, even after something terrible, good things can happen to good people.”

— Holly Jackson