Are We All Lemmings and Snowflakes? Quotes

“Because trying to use logic to explain anxiety is like using a banana to open a locked safe.”
― Holly Bourne, Are We All Lemmings and Snowflakes?

“You don't have to stop looking after yourself just to help the world. In fact, sometimes it's better for the world if you put yourself first. That's not being selfish, in fact looking after yourself is the greatest act of kindness you can give the world. Loving yourself first is the best way to spread love.”
― Holly Bourne, Are We All Lemmings and Snowflakes?

“What people don't understand about feeling such potent sadness is, when it lifts, it really lets you know what happiness means.”
― Holly Bourne, Are We All Lemmings and Snowflakes?

“Life's just a complicated mess with absolutely no purpose.”
― Holly Bourne, Are We All Lemmings and Snowflakes?

“I think real kindness, real compassion, is having the strength to stop and try and see where another person is coming from. To try and work out why they're being the way they're being. It takes time and patience. It's not easy, but that's real kindness.”
― Holly Bourne, Are We All Lemmings and Snowflakes?

“We need to kill with kindness. Cure with compassion.”
― Holly Bourne, Are We All Lemmings and Snowflakes?

“There's a certain type - who use their diagnosis like a human shield. They think it's a reason to find offence in anything. Accuse everyone of triggering them. Act like the world should wrap them up in cotton wool and lie coats over puddles for them just because they're on antidepressants or whatever.”
― Holly Bourne, Are We All Lemmings and Snowflakes?

“Maybe people like you and me are just prime numbers. We don't neatly divide into a world that demands order. And they keep trying to find out why, and what makes us the way we are, but they can't.”
― Holly Bourne, Are We All Lemmings and Snowflakes?