Holly Jackson Quotes

“The people who loved you, the ones who really cared, they would always come back. Sometimes, they even came back from the dead.”
― Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

“Family first", Bel said. Not a threat, but a promise.”
― Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

“A little insensitive", she whispered, loud enough that Bel and Carter could hear. "Giving the man with dementia a book called The Memory Thief.”
― Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

“The name Rachel Price is almost synonymous with mystery. Because her disappearance was like a puzzle, and it’s human nature to want to solve a puzzle, don’t you think?”
― Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

“Now Pip had to save him back; that was her choice. And she knew, without a shadow of a doubt, that it was the right one to make. Maybe the other choices she'd made hadn't been, maybe every decision up to this point had been wrong or bad, untraveled paths and other lives. This choice was the worst of them all, hurt the most, but it was right, it was good.”
― Holly Jackson, As Good As Dead

“She wasn’t fine but she was alive and, really, how was that much different from the rest of her life?”
― Holly Jackson, Five Survive

“Hello, Sarge,’ he said, the creaking sound of him pushing the door fully
open. ‘Agent Ravi here, reporting for boyfriending duties.”
― As good as dead by Holly Jackson

“Sometimes, even after something terrible, good things can happen to good people.”
― Holly Jackson , The Reappearance of Rachel Price

“I'm sorry that I'm not Emily. But I was never supposed to be. Took me a while to learn that, and I hope you can see it too. I spent my whole life waiting because I was trying to live a future that was never mine. And I did it because I wanted you to be proud of me. To just once say “Good Job, Jet.” I needed it, lived for it, and I don't think that was healthy, for either of us.”
― Holly Jackson, Not Quite Dead Yet

“Everything was returning, that full circle, dragging them all back around again.”
― Holly Jackson, A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder Series 4 Books Set By Holly Jackson

“It makes me so angry that this kind of cross-examination of victims is allowed. It almost shifts the burden of proof onto them, and it isn't fair.”
― Holly Jackson, A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder Series 4 Books Set By Holly Jackson

“Who am I between the projects and the assignments when there's nothing to do? I haven't found her yet and it scares me. Maybe that's why for my senior capstone project this year, I decided to solve a murder.”
― Holly Jackson, A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder Series 4 Books Set By Holly Jackson

“Trapped. Shut in. Only thirty-one feet to share between them, that extra foot important enough not to round down.”
― Holly Jackson, Five Survive

“We've spend our whole lives trying to fill Emily's shoes, feeling crushed by her shadow, trying to prove to Mom and Dad that we are good enough too.”
― Holly Jackson, Not Quite Dead Yet

“They hadn't had time to say one word to each other, which was fine, because it was hard to be rude to someone with just one word.”
― Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price