45 Quotes by Holly Jackson

As if they think I don’t already know. I came out of the womb knowing how to do academic references.

Shewasgoingtodieshewasgoingtodieshewasdeadshewasdeadshewasgoingtodie.

He smiled, put his hands on the back of her neck, fingers in her hair, and leaned in to press his forehead against hers. He’d told her before that he did it to take away half her sadness, half her headache, half her nerves before her Columbia interview. Because half less of a bad thing meant there was room for half good.

And in the dead silence of the night, Pip whispered, “Who’s taking the picture?

A quietness settled over the room, a quietness that wasn’t the absence of sound, it was its own living thing, stifling in the spaces between them.

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

They found Lauren fully submerged in a duvet fort on the bed, the only sign of her existence a splay of ginger hair poking out from the bottom.

What do you do when the things that are supposed to protect you, fail you like that.

I’ve been thinking’, Pip said, turning to face him. ‘All Stanley wanted was a quiet life, to learn to be better, to try do some good with it. And he doesn’t get to do that any more. But we’re still here, we’re alive.’ She paused, meeting Jamie’s eyes. ‘Can you promise me something? Can you promise me you’ll live a good life? A full life, a happy one. Live well, and do it for him, because he can’t any more.