“Love isn’t just a feeling. Love is a choice too. And you may not be able to help your feelings, but you are responsible for the choices you make about what to do with them.”
-It Only Happens in the Movies quotes by Holly Bourne
“No one ever tells you how much a heartbreak physically hurts. How it literally feels like you’ve been kicked down the stairs. How you can’t swallow. How every muscle aches. How your heart lurches inside you like it’s been poisoned. Nobody tells you that.”
-It Only Happens in the Movies, Holly Bourne
“I smiled back at Ma because smiling is sometimes the only way to stop yourself crying.”
-It Only Happens in the Movies, Holly Bourne
“Why love is never like the movies.”
-It Only Happens in the Movies, Holly Bourne
“Hell is other people and what they do in the anonymous dark of the cinema.”
-It Only Happens in the Movies, Holly Bourne
“Romance films are money-spinning cathedrals of love, wobbling in the foundations of unbelievable and damaging stereotypes.”
-It Only Happens in the Movies, Holly Bourne
Because they’re full of unhelpful lies. Romance films ruin people’s real-life relationships. They offer this idea of love that isn’t sustainable in normal life. It’s dan…” I was about to say “dangerous” before I looked up to see literally the whole class listening in. My fists clenched. I reached for a lesser word. “It’s…pathetic?”
-It Only Happens in the Movies, Holly Bourne
“Or maybe there’s a type of laughter that only feels good with old friends.”
-It Only Happens in the Movies, Holly Bourne
“Because you always leave a little piece of your heart in whoever you fall in love with.”
-It Only Happens in the Movies, Holly Bourne
“It was like someone had held me upside down and shaken me until all the wisdom had fallen out.”
-It Only Happens in the Movies quotes by Holly Bourne
“The only love affair I needed to invest in right now was one with myself. Spend some time with me. Figuring out myself and why I picked the relationships I did. I was holding out my heart to me. Because I’d realised I was the only person who could give me a happily-ever-after.”
-It Only Happens in the Movies, Holly Bourne
“All I’m saying is, love changes over time. No person is ever perfect for another person.”
-It Only Happens in the Movies, Holly Bourne
“But I was choosing to walk away from that. Because my heart… my heart was too fragile for someone who had chosen to break it.”
-It Only Happens in the Movies, Holly Bourne
“Because the week the cinema closed? Well. That was the week we broke up. Ahh, come on. You knew this was coming.”
-It Only Happens in the Movies, Holly Bourne
“His heart had changed channels, even though our show was still playing.”
-It Only Happens in the Movies quotes Holly Bourne
“Because if you can’t use emotional manipulation against the father who left you and doesn’t realize you quit the one thing that made you happy, then when can you?”
-It Only Happens in the Movies, Holly Bourne
“We worked in silence, a weird atmosphere floating between us. I kept wanting to look at him but I fought the urge. Trying to tell myself that I didn’t like him, I just didn’t like the fact his attention had been withdrawn.”
-It Only Happens in the Movies, Holly Bourne
“Audrey, I love you. Please forgive me. Being with you makes me feel like I’m in the movies. I honestly, truly, want you to be my happily ever after. Please…”
-It Only Happens in the Movies, Holly Bourne
-It Only Happens in the Movies, Holly Bourne
-It Only Happens in the Movies, Holly Bourne
