The Yearbook Quotes

“If you’re not scared, then it’s not courage.”
― Holly Bourne, The Yearbook

“Remind yourself it’s better to be lonely than hurt. It’s better to be alone than in a room full of people who can turn on you.”
― Holly Bourne, The Yearbook

“People always believe they're nice in their own heads, that's what makes it so scary when you look at the state of the world.”
― Holly Bourne, The Yearbook

“That the end of childhood is when you realize adults don’t really know what they’re doing.”
― Holly Bourne, The Yearbook

“Just keep telling the truth, Paige,” he said. “I know it’s hurting, but it’s working.”
― Holly Bourne, The Yearbook

“So many people behave like they think a cinema orchestra is following them around to give them backing music, that they're the superstar of the universe...and the people who believe this way, they're the people who tend to hurt others the most. They think they're the hero of their own story, but, actually, in the pursuit of being so important, they're often the villain of everyone else's.”
― Holly Bourne, The Yearbook

“Well, the weird thing about people,” polly said, “it’s, so very often, they’d rather feel important than feel happy.”
― Holly Bourne, The Yearbook

“It hadn’t felt safe. Then I told my story, and now I did.”
― Holly Bourne, The Yearbook

“Sometimes it only takes one person to tell you a different story. A person you love and respect.”
― Holly Bourne, The Yearbook

“If you don’t say anything bad about other people, it is less likely that they will say bad things about you.”
― Holly Bourne, The Yearbook

“There was a smell, a musty one that made you feel smarter and the need to talk quietly.”
― Holly Bourne, The Yearbook

“I’d been playing a game that was impossible to win. For a prize that didn’t exist.”
― Holly Bourne, The Yearbook

“Your Lexicon is exceedingly impressive."
"Listen back to that last sentence, you literary show-off."
"I have no idea what you mean.”
― Holly Bourne, The Yearbook

“The end of childhood is when you realise that adults have no idea what the hell they're doing”
― Holly Bourne, The Yearbook

“I exist dad! I wake up every morning and I exist. Because you made me. I didn’t ask to be here, in this world, in this house, but you guys made me and I’m here and I exist, even though you pretend I don’t. And you know what? It really hurts. It hurts that you treat me like nothing and treat Adam like everything. It hurts how we’re all scared of you. Literally everything about you hurts me, and you don’t even care that it hurts.”
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― Holly Bourne, The Yearbook

“No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused.”
― Holly Bourne, The Yearbook