So Thrilled For You Quotes

“They’re jealous of my life and how they can’t have it anymore. And they know – underneath their own propaganda – that my life is as good as theirs without such unrelenting sacrifice.”
― Holly Bourne, So Thrilled For You

“What do you want me to do, Lauren? Crap my pants in the name of equality? A literal dirty protest for feminism?”
― Holly Bourne, So Thrilled For You

“Keep going,' they said. 'Try this rugby position,' they said. 'No no no, not like that, you're doing it wrong. It's not supposed to hurt but definitely keep doing it even if it's agony. What's formula? There isn't any in the hospital so if you don't get this right your baby will starve. You can't go home until you've figured out the latch. Let me check it again. No, position is all wrong. Unlatch him. I know he's screaming but unlatch him. Try again. No. Wrong again. He can't breathe. He'll get wind. No wonder he'd up all night with that latch. Does he have tongue tie? We don't bother checking for it but he's likely got it. If you want to get it checked you'll have to pay a private lactation consultant £280 to tell you he has it, and then another £280 to cut it, and oh, the NHS waiting list is three weeks long and your baby will die before then, but don't you dare use formula! Nipple confusion! You need to establish your milk supply first! Your post-natal depression will get worse if you stop! Keep going, keep going. Don't try using a bottle until it's way too late for the baby to accept the bottle. Oh dear, yes, now you can't leave your baby for more than three hours for about a year. Didn't anyone tell you that? Why didn't you introduce a bottle sooner? You're giving your child the best start in life though. Your entire life might've shrunk to a mile's radius from your front door, but at least the baby will never get sick, apart from all the times they get sick, and they'll have a higher IQ, even though, actually, it appears that evidence is overstated. Here's all the advice ever about how to start breastfeeding [...] Here's absolutely no advice on how to stop.”
― Holly Bourne, So Thrilled For You

“Except she’s not here. Not now. Not ever. I sigh again, clench and release my palms. The grief starts to drain away, back to where it dwells. The wave has crashed, the waters are calming down.”
― Holly Bourne, So Thrilled For You

“We never had scans in my day,’ Mum interrupts, already on her knees with a dustpan and brush. ‘Your generation knows too much. We didn’t even know if it was a boy or a girl, let alone if they had Down’s syndrome or whatever. You just got pregnant and nine months later, you got a baby and it was what it was.”
― Holly Bourne, So Thrilled For You

“I think I’m the one who gets to decide what counts. Me and my wife. Who chose me by the way,’ he adds. ‘Despite your underhand efforts to undermine our marriage . . . her sexuality.”
― Holly Bourne, So Thrilled For You

“I ate an entire cake. A whole one. Like Bruce fucking Bogtrotter in Matilda.”
― Holly Bourne, So Thrilled For You

“No, sorry. I know your generation just LOVE to ignore the basic facts of biology but I wouldn’t let your father near you when you were a baby. Why would I want to? He was inept.”
― Holly Bourne, So Thrilled For You

“Well, you know what I find invigorating, Steffi? Being in a healthy relationship, rather than being pressured into choking and anal by some 27-year-old porn addict you met on Hinge. I read the news, I know what it’s like out there. I’m not jealous at all, in fact I feel sorry for her. It must all be so empty.”
― Holly Bourne, So Thrilled For You

“No.’ I shook my head, beyond resolute. ‘I’m organising her baby shower. I may as well put time and energy into a baby that’s actually going to exist rather than the false hope of one existing.”
― Holly Bourne, So Thrilled For You