Top 49 Holly Bourne Quotes
#1. It was all very well being a strong independent woman, but it was hard when boys' confusing behaviour kept making you lose your focus.
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#2. There are the times when the only appropriate thing to do is stop crying, let it go, with light and love in your heart, and to continue living your life to the best of your ability.
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#3. He's been so changeable with her I'm surprised he's not been accepted to Hogwarts for his transfiguration skills.
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#4. Who cares what a writer looks like as long as their words are beautiful?
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#5. Why would anyone get drunk? Why does anyone need anything like that to escape the world, when the world is its own antidote?
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#6. Reality doesn't wait for you to be ready for it. It doesn't go away when you tell it to. It's like a persistent mosquito, determined to suck your blood and leave you with a bumpy itch that you can't stop scratching.
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#7. Being interesting isn't important. But being happy is. As well as being a person you're proud of
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#8. Life is so bloody hard. I don't want the whole struggle to be pointless. If I'm going to get crap thrown at me from great heights my whole life, well, I want to damn well make sure I leave a mark on this world in exchange for all the misery.
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#9. Failure is never getting hurt. Because that means you've not done anything you cared about.
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#10. Almost there..." I said, like I was taking my child to Disneyland.
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#11. Another round later and I was undeniably drunk. I could feel my head swimming and was yelling "INK INK THAT'S THE NOISE A SQUID MAKES", while laughing hysterically at myself.
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#12. Love, as always, is what it comes down to. You have to love. It's the only way. Love for life. Love for others. And, most importantly, love for yourself.
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#13. Bad stuff happens, people are mean, there are no steps you can take that ensure the world leaves you alone. All you can do is try not to be one of those people who contributes to the bad.
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#14. I'm sick of all the pressure. I'm sick of feeling like I'll ruin all their happiness if I don't do what they want me to do.
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#15. Life doesn't happen to you. You can't just sit on a park bench and expect amazing things to whizz by on a conveyor belt. Life is what you put into it.
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#16. Everyone's on the cliff edge of normal. Everyone finds life an utter nightmare sometimes, and there's no 'normal' way of dealing with it... There is no normal, Evelyn.
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#17. 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.
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#18. Happy endings are reserved strictly for the fiction shelves of bookstores
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#19. 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.
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#20. Of course, you're always a cynic before you fall in love yourself...
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#21. 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?
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#22. and I learned a lesson about not judging people until you've found out whether or not they've read Harry Potter. Kyle
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#23. Nobody tells you that large houses have this horrible habit of making you feel utterly alone.
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#24. Maybe all you needed in life was the belief you could change things. Somehow. Some way.
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#25. Yes, well, rein it in, Prom King. British people have been successfully repressing our emotions since before your country was even a thing." We
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#27. Learning anything interesting?"
"Not really. Psychology sounds a lot more interesting than it actually is."
Dad looked at me over the paper. "I'm afraid that's the same with most things in life.
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#28. The true test of life isn't how you cope when everything is going in your favour; it's how you deal with things that could destroy you, if you let them.
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#29. If we expect all men to have six-packs and biceps, we can't get mad when they expect us to be stick-figures with DD boobs.
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#30. Yeah, well, your penis seemed to really like someone else on Saturday.
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#31. Choose life. Choose love. And always remember to live.
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#32. Everyone's always scared for someone else's generation
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#33. British?" I tried to explain. "We make jokes about uncomfortable topics to feel less awkward about them?" How Hard Can Love Be? chapter 22
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#34. 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
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#35. Nobody really likes coffee. They just pretend to because drinking coffee makes them feel like a proper adult.
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#36. I can't, guys," I said. "Tonight I'm making a cherry pie from scratch.
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#37. Do you think maybe your writing isn't going anymore because you're unhappy? Because you're not living the life you could? A life worth writing about? You must know that cliche-write what you know-but what do you know, Bree, when you shut the world out?
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#38. She needed to understand her pain and why it had brought her here.
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#39. Ha, that's the problem. You have to exert brain control in order to do it, and isn't a lack of control over your brain why you're in therapy in the first place?
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#40. She has her own brand of strength,brought to the surface by the dim glow of the streetlight and the whisper of night air on her skin.
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#42. I'm terrified that my journey won't tie up all the loose ends nicely. Because this is a life, not just a story, and life doesn't always go the way stories tell you.
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#43. Being a woman, in this world, ultimately makes you crazy.
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#44. Time can be strange sometimes. It can leave imprints in particular places, leaving ghosts of memories trapped.
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#45. But what if you needed to get what you want... just once?
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#46. Did all the horrid little moments where girls got treated like crap somehow create a society where the horrid big moments could happen
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#47. Are you the conker whisperer or something?"
He grinned and dropped his spare one to the ground. "I am the whisperer of many things."
"Yeah. Bullshit. You're the whisperer of bullshit.
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#48. I want to change things on my own terms, to show that there's no right or wrong way to change the world. There's no entry test. You don't need to suck anything up. Pay any dues. Just you and your anger and your voice is enough. If you only have the courage to use it.
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#49. Isn't [Caffe Nero] a bit 'commercial' for an anti-establishment rock star like yourself?"
He dropped my hand and dug into his pocket. "But I've got a loyalty card," he protested. "And I've got enough stamps to get you a free coffee.
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