Jenny Holiday > Quotes

“Sometimes you have to open your eyes and jump”
― Jenny Holiday, One and Only

“After all that had occurred, shouldn’t she appear more…ruined?”
― Jenny Holiday, The Miss Mirren Mission

“Girls need love, not braids.”
― Jenny Holiday, A Princess for Christmas

“Let me give you one piece of advice. Do not get between a woman and her cause.”
― Jenny Holiday, The Likelihood of Lucy

“Was the princess of Eldovia really throwing snowballs at him? A third one thwacked his solar plexus, summoning an involuntary gasp. Yes, yes she was.”
― Jenny Holiday, A Princess for Christmas

“Happiness - whether you're experiencing it or creating it for others - is important. And happiness and comfort, it turns out, are not the same things.”
― Jenny Holiday, A Princess for Christmas

“when you don’t know what to say, you usually can’t go wrong with the truth, even if it makes you or other people uncomfortable.”
― Jenny Holiday, Canadian Boyfriend

“once you open your eyes to the possibility, life is full of conflicting truths. I wonder, though, if time sands down the square edges that seem so painfully sharp now.”
― Jenny Holiday, Canadian Boyfriend

“Oh my god, you are from a fake Hallmark country,” Leo deadpanned.”
― Jenny Holiday, A Princess for Christmas

“You don't let go of love without a fight." He smiled at her. "The part where you talk to him. The part where you try to keep him. The part where you let him decide he doesn't want you instead of making that decision for him.”
― Jenny Holiday, A Princess for Christmas

“His world shrank so those lips were the world. That rosebud. That heart. He swooped in, but stopped just short of her mouth, so the steam from his breath joined with hers. Waited. Because although he had come, rather rapidly, to his "fuck it" revelation, that didn't mean she had.

He hoped she had. Please let her have.

There were only a few millimeters between them.

She closed the gap.

It was different this time. This was premeditated, and they were in her secret place in the middle of the goddamn Alps.”
― Jenny Holiday, A Princess for Christmas

“If you want someone to listen to you, don’t yell. Yelling signals desperation. Speak quietly but firmly. Assume you will be heard.”
― Jenny Holiday, A Princess for Christmas

“An arm. It was merely an arm. Goodness. She was like a nineteenth-century gentleman tied into knots over the sight of an unexpectedly exposed ankle. “It’s . . . been a long few days,” she said lamely.”
― Jenny Holiday, A Princess for Christmas

“It’s hard to explain. I feel like I’m always navigating these two worlds but always falling short in each of them. But at home, with my family, it’s not a thing. I’m just who I am.”
― Jenny Holiday, Duke, Actually

“You might call it nerdiness, but people with passion are much more interesting than those without it.” She was still teasing him, but she actually believed that.”
― Jenny Holiday, A Princess for Christmas

“Princess, I appreciate the trust, but now I’m going to have to insist on signing one.” He had been thinking about the document as an affront to his pride, as a symbol of the gulf between them. He hadn’t been thinking of it from her point of view, about what she risked when she made herself vulnerable to men who might turn out to be dickheads.”
― Jenny Holiday, A Princess for Christmas

“Because why not? A cabdriver from the Bronx didn’t have that many opportunities to spend the evening with a princess, and when he did—especially if she was a sad princess—he should probably seize the chance to kiss her hand.”
― Jenny Holiday, A Princess for Christmas

“She must have heard his unarticulated confusion, because she elaborated. “Eldovia is a constitutional monarchy. It has a Westminster parliamentary system.” He had no idea what that meant.”
― Jenny Holiday, A Princess for Christmas

“Marie: Well, we’ll miss you at the ball. As for the PhD, I appreciate what you’re doing, but don’t do a degree you don’t want to do. Max: Don’t take this the wrong way. You know I love you, but I want to do a PhD a lot more than I want to . . . do you. LOL.”
― Jenny Holiday, A Princess for Christmas

“He held out his arm and she took it. "We're off to see the wizard.”
― Jenny Holiday, A Princess for Christmas

“Aurora?”
― Jenny Holiday, Canadian Boyfriend

“The earl narrowed his eyes as he hopped off his bay gelding and surveyed the deep green expanse of lawn surrounding the ancestral home. The graceful house, built atop and around an ancient abbey, wore its centuries of accretion with aplomb, as if it had always perched atop this
gentle slope. In the slanting late afternoon sun, the fading red-brick walls glowed. “My God, I hate the country,” he said.”
― Jenny Holiday, The Miss Mirren Mission

“As it relates to Buffy, I’m in the middle of season four, which, frankly, is the long slog on Riley.” “The long what?” “To my mind, be Team Spike or be Team Angel—I suppose. I don’t really get the latter, but I respect it. But Riley? That’s like being pro-beige.”
― Jenny Holiday, A Princess for Christmas

“You are going to regret that, Your Magical Regalness."

"I doubt that!" she called back.”
― Jenny Holiday, A Princess for Christmas

“It was the Hallmark movie he’d teased Marie about, except he was pretty sure Hallmark movies didn’t end in heartbreak and ruin. Of course, they also didn’t feature as much fucking as had happened the past few days, so clearly he was on the wrong channel.”
― Jenny Holiday, A Princess for Christmas

“Is this the source of the social trouble your sister is having?” “I think so. She seems to want to be friends with them, but I’m not sure why. They seem awful.” “Like the Plastics.” “Like the what?” “From the movie Mean Girls.” “I haven’t seen it.” Marie was tickled that she could pull out an American pop culture reference Leo didn’t know.”
― Jenny Holiday, A Princess for Christmas

“Oh my god, you are from a fake Hallmark country," Leo deadpanned.”
― Jenny Holiday, A Princess for Christmas

“Exactly. She would drag my father out here, too, sometimes, and have picnics.” A mischievous smiled bloomed. “Supposedly I was conceived here.” “Well, hot damn.”
― Jenny Holiday, A Princess for Christmas

“Eldovia.” He snorted. “It sounds like one of those fake Hallmark Channel countries.” “Leo!” the girl protested. “That was so rude!”
― Jenny Holiday, A Princess for Christmas

“So you don’t want to have sex because you want to have sex; you want to have sex because you want to beat your future ex-husband at some imaginary sex-having game.” “That is . . . correct.” “Aww. My cousin broke you.”
― Jenny Holiday, A Princess for Christmas