Holly Jackson > Quotes

“Microwave him.”
― Holly Jackson, As Good as Dead

“You're my person. My little one. My Sarge. And I'm supposed to protect you.”
― Holly Jackson, As Good as Dead

“Real men wear floral when trespassing.”
― Holly Jackson, As Good as Dead

“Hey Sarge, remember me?
~Ravi Singh”
― Holly Jackson, A Good Girl's Guide To Murder

“I think I’ve spent so long waiting for it all to begin, for life to really start, that I missed out on what it was really all about.”
― Holly Jackson, Not Quite Dead Yet

“He’d had to do that twice. Hold the woman he loved in his arms as she lay dying.”
― Holly Jackson, Not Quite Dead Yet

“Oh, and don't tell them the only reason you started this project was because you fancied me. You know, think of a more noble reason. Don't feel bad, You couldn't help yourself, I'm ravishing, get it? Ravi - shing. Ravi Singh.”
― Holly Jackson, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

“That final week, not quite long enough, not quite dead yet.
But if it’s a frog to you, then it’s a frog to me too.”
― Holly Jackson, Not Quite Dead Yet

“You can love something without needing it to love you back.”
― Holly Jackson, Not Quite Dead Yet

“I’ve finally been living. And that’s all because of you. You showed me. It’s the best thing anyone’s ever done for me, and I’ll never forget it. And I wanted you to know, that it was all you, before it’s too late.”
― Holly Jackson, Not Quite Dead Yet

“But,' she said, 'what's the point in doing it, if it's not to achieve something big?'
'Maybe there is no point.”
― Holly Jackson, Not Quite Dead Yet

“Yeah,' Jet said, 'I see you. Do you see me?' 'I've always seen you, Jet.”
― Holly Jackson, Not Quite Dead Yet

“Not a twitch in his fingers, or a jerk in his legs.
Only a new river, a red one, slowly leaking out of his undone head.”
― Holly Jackson, As Good as Dead

“That was my goodbye, I guess, my way of fixing it, taking her out of the world, so at least if you were gone then she was gone too.”
― Holly Jackson, Five Survive

“Turns out dying feels a lot like living.”
― Holly Jackson, Not Quite Dead Yet

“I think we all get to decide what good and bad and right and wrong mean to us, not what we’re told to accept.”
― Holly Jackson, A Good Girl's Guide To Murder

“You know,’ he said, gripping the wheel with both hands, even though they weren’t going anywhere.
‘I think this has been the worst week of my life, because I’m going to lose you, and I don’t want to lose you.’
He cleared the lump in his throat. ‘But, it’s also been the best week of my life, because I got to spend it with you.”
― Holly Jackson, Not Quite Dead Yet

“Thank you for your unbiased advice, Mr Epps,’ she said. ‘But it appears you have underestimated me. I would be willing to lose everything, destroy myself, if it also meant destroying your client. That seems a fair trade. Now you have a good day, Mr Epps.”
― Holly Jackson, As Good as Dead

“Because I wrote this little song … for Jet.”
― Holly Jackson, Not Quite Dead Yet

“I think life is about finding your person, your one person.”
― Holly Jackson, Not Quite Dead Yet

“Real men wear floral while trespassing- Ravi Singh”
― Holly Jackson

“Maybe the rain would help: water down the rage until she was no longer ablaze, just the charred parts left behind.”
― Holly Jackson, Good Girl, Bad Blood

“You're the maximum amount of Pipness that any Pip could be. I'm going to introduce you to my family this weekend as Pippus Maximus.”
― Holly Jackson

“I understand why they all hate me. I might hate me too."

"Pip caught sight of herself again...she shouldn't stare too long, in case her reflection stayed in Jason's window, forever leaving a mark of her there."

"She cried and she let herself cry, a few minutes to grieve for the girl she could never be again.”
― Holly Jackson, A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder Series 4 Books Set (Paperback) - A Good Girl's Guide to Murder; Good Girl, Bad Blood; As Good as Dead; Kill Joy

“She did think about disappearing sometimes, running away and leaving Pip behind. Or disappearing inside her own head, in those rare moments when her mind was quiet, an absence she could just float in, free. But what did disappear mean, really, when it came down to it?”
― Holly Jackson, As Good as Dead

“I don’t think your brother did it – and I’m going to try to prove it.”
― Holly Jackson, A Good Girl's Guide To Murder

“Pip reached down behind the lectern for Ravi’s hand, sliding her fingers between his. Their entwined hands became a new living thing, her finger pads perfect against the dips in his knuckles like they’d grown just that way to fit together.”
― Holly Jackson, A Good Girl's Guide To Murder

“She wanted what she'd always wanted. To do something, achieve something big, something undeniably great, to prove that she could.”
― Holly Jackson, Not Quite Dead Yet

“His whole life has been a war, that does something to your head, I think. It's done something to my head.”
― Holly Jackson, Five Survive

“Pip had told the story, but she never really told the heart of it: that it had broken her.”
― Holly Jackson, A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder Series 4 Books Set (Paperback) - A Good Girl's Guide to Murder; Good Girl, Bad Blood; As Good as Dead; Kill Joy