Heather Hill > Quotes

“When life throws shit at you, grow great, big, fuck off roses.”
― Heather Hill

“The perfect body protects its owner from disease, gives birth to amazing new people and stops your bones from falling out. The end.”
― Heather Hill, The New Mrs D

“There is a word in the Greek language for which there is no English equivalent. It is ‘meraki’ and it means ‘doing something with soul, creativity or love – when you put something of yourself into what you are doing’. –”
― Heather Hill, The New Mrs D: An Anti-Romantic Comedy

“I wish I had let myself be happier,”
― Heather Hill, I Hate That You Bloody Left Me

“Discovered my superpower isn’t making a cool ‘KSSHHH KSHHH’ noise when I walk. Unrelated: Now have 40 smartphone photos of the inside of my pocket.”
― Heather Hill, The New Mrs D: An Anti-Romantic Comedy

“Thou shalt remember that God is all around. . . . And she doesn’t like swearing.”
― Heather Hill, The New Mrs D: An Anti-Romantic Comedy

“Thou shalt never again indulge in negative self-talk.”
― Heather Hill, The New Mrs D: An Anti-Romantic Comedy

“The two most important things to be in life are your true self and a teacher.’ ‘But”
― Heather Hill, I Hate That You Bloody Left Me

“Thou shalt cease looking in magnified mirrors for evidence of beard.”
― Heather Hill, The New Mrs D: An Anti-Romantic Comedy

“And, dammit, I want to be extraordinary!”
― Heather Hill, The New Mrs D: An Anti-Romantic Comedy

“If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint’ then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.”
― Heather Hill, The New Mrs D: An Anti-Romantic Comedy

“Your eyes are full of hate 41. That’s good. Hate keeps a man alive; it gives him strength.”
― Heather Hill, The New Mrs D: An Anti-Romantic Comedy

“But I don’t think you ever lose your faith. It can just go underground for a while. And you can trust me on that one, because I know.’ Fleur”
― Heather Hill, I Hate That You Bloody Left Me

“And this old woman was once a silly, misguided teenage girl who ran screaming every time a Boy George record came on the radio.’ ‘Screaming?’ Joanna-Rose said with a smirk. ‘Really?’ Fleur nodded, her cheeks flushing at the memory. ‘Yes, we all did. “Turn that freak show off! Get Duran Duran back on!”
― Heather Hill, I Hate That You Bloody Left Me

“If only hindsight was less ‘hind’ and more ‘sight’.”
― Heather Hill, The New Mrs D: An Anti-Romantic Comedy

“Oh, don’t thank me,’ Fleur said. ‘I think you’d have a lot more friends completely accepting of you if you’d just ventured out more, to be honest.”
― Heather Hill, I Hate That You Bloody Left Me

“1. Thou shalt do one thing a day that scares the crap out of you.”
― Heather Hill, The New Mrs D: An Anti-Romantic Comedy

“Acting the way people expect you to is rarely very exciting.’   Joanna-Rose”
― Heather Hill, I Hate That You Bloody Left Me

“He’s got very broad shoulders, you know.”
― Heather Hill, I Hate That You Bloody Left Me

“To all the lovely ladies and the equally lovely men, Put on that favourite album from your youth, march to the kitchen henceforth, open the drawer – you know the one – with the wooden spoon inside it! Pull out that spoon-cum-microphone, turn up the music and sing your heart out. Use nothing less than the power of the top of your voice. Now, be thankful. You’re a legend in your own lifetime. And there will never be another you.”
― Heather Hill, The New Mrs D: An Anti-Romantic Comedy