Sucker Punch Quotes

“But why do I try to remember when he was kind? It doesn’t comfort me. It only reminds me that once, I had fooled myself into thinking my devotion would be recompensed. It’s helpful, sometimes, to remind myself of all the ways he made me miserable. It gives me resolve. I was right to”
― Scaachi Koul, Sucker Punch: Essays

“It’s just so freakish to want to love someone else, isn’t it? What a stupid thing to do. What an unbelievable waste of my time. What a way to make me hurt and hurt and hurt and hurt. I wonder when I’ll get to try it again.”
― Scaachi Koul, Sucker Punch: Essays

“If I wanted to feel sad, I had data for it.”
― Scaachi Koul, Sucker Punch: Essays

“I would likely not make a good actor because I want credit for being interesting enough as myself.”
― Scaachi Koul, Sucker Punch: Essays

“My friends left, the flowers died, I drank all the wine. Nothing survives me, but nothing is designed to. Everyone is just a visitor here, even me. Still, I welcome the tourists.”
― Scaachi Koul, Sucker Punch: Essays

“Writing about yourself for the internet means pulling off little pieces of your body and letting them walk around without you. You have to let them go, and when you meet them again, you might not like them anymore.”
― Scaachi Koul, Sucker Punch: Essays