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Top 20 Linda Holmes Quotes (2025 Update)

Linda Holmes Quote: “There is no trouble that a good cup of tea can’t solve.”

1. “There is no trouble that a good cup of tea can’t solve.”

— Linda Holmes

Linda Holmes Quote: “Your head is the house you live in, so you have to do the maintenance.”

2. “Your head is the house you live in, so you have to do the maintenance.”

— Linda Holmes

Linda Holmes Quote: “My therapist calls it grieving the first call.” “What does that mean?” “She says when something happens, good or bad, you can only call one person first. And if you’ve been somebody’s first call, it’s hard not to be their first call anymore. She says it’s one of the reasons why parents sometimes feel sad when their kids are getting married. It’s not just the empty nest. They’re not the first call anymore.”

3. “My therapist calls it grieving the first call.” “What does that mean?” “She says when something happens, good or bad, you can only call one person first. And if you’ve been somebody’s first call, it’s hard not to be their first call anymore. She says it’s one of the reasons why parents sometimes feel sad when their kids are getting married. It’s not just the empty nest. They’re not the first call anymore.”

— Linda Holmes

Linda Holmes Quote: “I have been lying on my couch for thirteen, going on fourteen months. I have barely gone out. I have fed myself and made ends meet. I hope that’s not the proudest of me you could be. I hope surviving not being married to a doctor anymore is not the greatest thing you can imagine for me. I went to school. I’m going to live another fifty years probably. I hope this isn’t the highlight.”

4. “I have been lying on my couch for thirteen, going on fourteen months. I have barely gone out. I have fed myself and made ends meet. I hope that’s not the proudest of me you could be. I hope surviving not being married to a doctor anymore is not the greatest thing you can imagine for me. I went to school. I’m going to live another fifty years probably. I hope this isn’t the highlight.”

— Linda Holmes

Linda Holmes Quote: “The tag on her chamomile teabag said, There is no trouble that a good cup of tea can’t solve. It sounded like what a gentleman on Downton Abbey would say right before his wife got an impacted tooth and elegantly perished in bed.”

5. “The tag on her chamomile teabag said, There is no trouble that a good cup of tea can’t solve. It sounded like what a gentleman on Downton Abbey would say right before his wife got an impacted tooth and elegantly perished in bed.”

— Linda Holmes

Linda Holmes Quote: “You’re twenty-two, twenty-three, time is sort of infinite. It’s like a pool where you can’t touch the bottom.”

6. “You’re twenty-two, twenty-three, time is sort of infinite. It’s like a pool where you can’t touch the bottom.”

— Linda Holmes

Linda Holmes Quote: “Everything she said, he treated like it ended in a semicolon.”

7. “Everything she said, he treated like it ended in a semicolon.”

— Linda Holmes

Linda Holmes Quote: “Eveleth had always hated how blushing felt. It was accompanied by such a miserable desire to cease to be, utterly, to turn into a fog that could be waved away.”

8. “Eveleth had always hated how blushing felt. It was accompanied by such a miserable desire to cease to be, utterly, to turn into a fog that could be waved away.”

— Linda Holmes

Linda Holmes Quote: “It’s not a question of whether you could try to do it by yourself. You can always try it. But it can be dangerous, and it’s harder. Trying to buck yourself up is the tooth pliers of mental health.”

9. “It’s not a question of whether you could try to do it by yourself. You can always try it. But it can be dangerous, and it’s harder. Trying to buck yourself up is the tooth pliers of mental health.”

— Linda Holmes

Linda Holmes Quote: “Who eats pumpkin pie in a bathing suit on a boat in the middle of the ocean?”

10. “Who eats pumpkin pie in a bathing suit on a boat in the middle of the ocean?”

— Linda Holmes

Linda Holmes Quote: “The amount of time people who have just met are supposed to look directly at each other, particularly without talking, is a unit that’s both very short and very precise. When you exceed it, you get suspicious, or you get threatened, or you get this flicker of accidental.”

11. “The amount of time people who have just met are supposed to look directly at each other, particularly without talking, is a unit that’s both very short and very precise. When you exceed it, you get suspicious, or you get threatened, or you get this flicker of accidental.”

— Linda Holmes

Linda Holmes Quote: “And if you’ve been somebody’s first call, it’s hard not to be their first call anymore. She says it’s one of the reasons why parents sometimes feel sad when their kids are getting married. It’s not just the empty nest. They’re not the first call anymore. I’m not Andy’s first call anymore. It doesn’t mean I want to be his girlfriend, and it doesn’t mean I don’t like her. But it was sad. It’s different. The doctor says it’s important to be sad.”

12. “And if you’ve been somebody’s first call, it’s hard not to be their first call anymore. She says it’s one of the reasons why parents sometimes feel sad when their kids are getting married. It’s not just the empty nest. They’re not the first call anymore. I’m not Andy’s first call anymore. It doesn’t mean I want to be his girlfriend, and it doesn’t mean I don’t like her. But it was sad. It’s different. The doctor says it’s important to be sad.”

— Linda Holmes

Linda Holmes Quote: “He still woke up some days and believed for fifteen seconds or so that he had something to do, until he remembered he didn’t. The sixteenth second was a killer.”

13. “He still woke up some days and believed for fifteen seconds or so that he had something to do, until he remembered he didn’t. The sixteenth second was a killer.”

— Linda Holmes

Linda Holmes Quote: “Instead, for luck, he asked them for 26, because Evvie’s address was 26 Bancroft Street. When he got home and he showed the shirt to Evvie, she said, “Hey, look. That’s my house number. Maybe it’s lucky.” He’d folded it up, saying, “Maybe.”

14. “Instead, for luck, he asked them for 26, because Evvie’s address was 26 Bancroft Street. When he got home and he showed the shirt to Evvie, she said, “Hey, look. That’s my house number. Maybe it’s lucky.” He’d folded it up, saying, “Maybe.”

— Linda Holmes

Linda Holmes Quote: “When she started to cry, the upside was as it always was: the shower cry takes the logistics out of it. Crying has to be dealt with – it makes a mess, it swells up your face, it creates a little pile of tissues that are a tell. But the shower cry is the superspy’s cry, Evvie had always thought. It was between you and the tile walls, and everything that hurt turned into water, and the water went away.”

15. “When she started to cry, the upside was as it always was: the shower cry takes the logistics out of it. Crying has to be dealt with – it makes a mess, it swells up your face, it creates a little pile of tissues that are a tell. But the shower cry is the superspy’s cry, Evvie had always thought. It was between you and the tile walls, and everything that hurt turned into water, and the water went away.”

— Linda Holmes

Linda Holmes Quote: “I feel like it’s a very indiscriminate ‘hey.’ I feel like these guys go through and ‘hey’ at eight hundred women, and they see who will ‘hey’ back. like they’re blowing a horn at the top of a mountain and waiting for goats to come running.”

16. “I feel like it’s a very indiscriminate ‘hey.’ I feel like these guys go through and ‘hey’ at eight hundred women, and they see who will ‘hey’ back. like they’re blowing a horn at the top of a mountain and waiting for goats to come running.”

— Linda Holmes

Linda Holmes Quote: “Evvie’s Scandinavian grandmother had claimed that young women dream about the husbands they want, old women dream about the husbands they wanted, and only the luckiest women, for a moment in the middle, dream about the husbands they’ve got.”

17. “Evvie’s Scandinavian grandmother had claimed that young women dream about the husbands they want, old women dream about the husbands they wanted, and only the luckiest women, for a moment in the middle, dream about the husbands they’ve got.”

— Linda Holmes

Linda Holmes Quote: “But if you’re surprised that I’m excited to see Lisa after four days, then I’m glad you didn’t marry Chris. Because you deserve to miss the hell out of somebody after four days, and you deserve to have them miss you too.”

18. “But if you’re surprised that I’m excited to see Lisa after four days, then I’m glad you didn’t marry Chris. Because you deserve to miss the hell out of somebody after four days, and you deserve to have them miss you too.”

— Linda Holmes

Linda Holmes Quote: “Dean, people don’t like... fragility. It makes them nervous. They’re scared thinking things just happen. They think there’s always something you can do to keep monsters from getting under the bed.”

19. “Dean, people don’t like... fragility. It makes them nervous. They’re scared thinking things just happen. They think there’s always something you can do to keep monsters from getting under the bed.”

— Linda Holmes

Linda Holmes Quote: “I find the way you approach this exhausting.”

20. “I find the way you approach this exhausting.”

— Linda Holmes

Linda Holmes Quote: “Well that’s a system too but you don’t think about it very much because of how flawlessly it works for you.”

21. “Well that’s a system too but you don’t think about it very much because of how flawlessly it works for you.”

— Linda Holmes

Linda Holmes Quote: “All she could think as she finally, finally kissed him was finally, finally.”

22. “All she could think as she finally, finally kissed him was finally, finally.”

— Linda Holmes

Linda Holmes Quote: “The part of the future that was in focus had shortened; the part that was just a wall of fog went on forever. He still woke up some days and believed for fifteen seconds or so that he had something to do, until he remembered he didn’t. The sixteenth second was a killer.”

23. “The part of the future that was in focus had shortened; the part that was just a wall of fog went on forever. He still woke up some days and believed for fifteen seconds or so that he had something to do, until he remembered he didn’t. The sixteenth second was a killer.”

— Linda Holmes

Linda Holmes Quote: “He just missed me.” “Any particular reason?” Laurie asked. June smiled. “Because I’m not there.”

24. “He just missed me.” “Any particular reason?” Laurie asked. June smiled. “Because I’m not there.”

— Linda Holmes

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