Holly Bourne Quotes

“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.”

“To ask how I feel about writing is to ask how I feel about breathing.”

“Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.”

“Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.”

“When it comes down to it, it's giving people a good night out in a basic way and I think my company guarantees that. There's always something new and something to excite us and surprise us, and that's why people come back, I hope.”

“We may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living.”

“Our real duty is always found running in the direction of our worthiest desires.”

“Good friendships are fragile things and require as much care as any other fragile and precious thing.”

“Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.”

“Though the world was hazy, all I could think about was love. And how I'd never had it. How I would never understand what it felt like to fall asleep knowing another person was thinking of you. I would never have someone touch the small of my back as they steered me through a crowd. I would never know the contour of someone's face off-by-heart, and yet not be bored with it. And, as I sank to the grey, chewing-gum stained carpet, all I could think was how sad that was.”