Only Say Good Things Quotes

“Power is insidious when it masks itself as generosity. And generosity is insidious when it’s a camouflage for control. And both power and generosity are confusing when they gaslight you into believing they could be love.”
― Crystal Hefner, Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself

“We all make tradeoffs, compromises and we settle for less than we might need or want or even deserve when it comes to relationships.”
― Crystal Hefner, Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself

“She was wary and mysterious, like she knew things I didn't, and at the time I just thought that was what it meant to be a teenager.”
― Crystal Hefner, Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself

“I was never in love with Hef but I loved this old man in the ways you are supposed to love your elders. In the ways you are supposed to love someone who is nearing the end of a long and complicated life. I put every resentment aside, because legally I was his wife and it was my duty to care for him.”
― Crystal Hefner, Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself

“It became easy to believe my worth as a person was entirely based on what I looked like on the outside, because inside I had nothing left to give anyone.”
― Crystal Hefner, Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself

“Everything had changed, but I shoved the pain down. Because I was a woman now, and that’s what women do. I didn’t know much, but I already knew that.”
― Crystal Hefner, Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself

“All he cared about was that he ended up in the slot he’d bought, right next to Marilyn’s. She was the first woman to grace the cover of Playboy and to appear nude inside its pages. He put her in there without her permission, after buying the photos from a calendar company. She never got a dime. And she certainly didn’t have any say in whose bones would be lying next to hers for all eternity.”
― Crystal Hefner, Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself