Break Her Quotes

“That’s what forgiving was: seeing someone for what they were, flaws and all, not what you wanted them to be, not what they should have been.”
― B.G. Harlen, Break Her

“How do you make love to someone when you know they’ll be gone forever the next day? How do you spend the last few hours with someone when you know there will never be
anything after that?”
― B.G. Harlen, Break Her

“Everyone wants to be the survivor, but they seldom realize how very high the cost is.”
― B.G. Harlen, Break Her

“I’ve been fucked up the ass by Fate. What do you think you can do to me with your little, fucking penis?”
― B.G. Harlen, Break Her

“I am. A child is helpless; I think it is the betrayal that destroys them. But a grownup is – usually – not helpless. Grownups expect betrayal. What they can’t stand to be is powerless. That’s what destroys them.”
― B.G. Harlen, Break Her

“But you could conceivably be attracted to me. Theoretically.”
“But then again. Maybe not. Your eyes, I mean. Because, of course, you’re a homicidal maniac.”
“Stop, you’ll make me blush.”
“With a sense of humor that makes you even more disturbing.”
― B.G. Harlen, Break Her

“It’s soul against soul in here, isn’t it?"
"And may the best soul win!”
― B.G. Harlen, Break Her

“There were two ways to get through something like this, she finally realized. Being utterly dead inside and completely cold-blooded. Or being 100 percent obsessed with living.”
― B.G. Harlen, Break Her

“what's right isn't always what's exciting. And what's wrong isn't always a drag.”
― B.G. Harlen, Break Her

“Why is this,” she asked, again in that dreamy tone, “so much more real than that? One’s night, one’s day, why is this so much more real? That I can’t forget the things from the day, and I can’t remember the things from the night?”
― B.G. Harlen, Break Her

“This game has become so complicated, even I’m beginning to lose track of the sides.”
― B.G. Harlen, Break Her

“Just in case you were thinking, on some level, that there was even the slightest bit of enjoyment in it for me. That I found a strange sort of freedom in your vicious embrace. Your embrace. There is no freedom there. There is only what has to be done.”
― B.G. Harlen, Break Her

“Most people don’t understand what humor is. They think it’s something lighthearted and cheerful. Like ‘good humor.’ But it isn’t. It’s looking into the darkness and spitting at it with a joke. Humor is dark. Humor is that we’re all going to die.”
― B.G. Harlen, Break Her

“Grownups expect betrayal. What they can’t stand to be is powerless.”
― B.G. Harlen, Break Her

“You would have to be loved before you could be changed by it,” she added. “And I hate to disappoint you, but I don’t love you.”
“You’re breaking my heart.”
“Not that it isn’t an interesting thought. If anything could possibly affect you. I don’t know. What would happen if someone did love you? I think you’d reject them; in fact, I think you’d punish them for their naivete. I don’t think you’d let somebody love you, even if that were possible.”
― B.G. Harlen, Break Her

“All she was left with was the determination that she was going to come out of this alive, not because she had any particular desire to go on living, but because she sure as shit wasn’t going to let this asshole or any other be the one doing the deciding. Whatever he may have thought about the issue. That’s all she knew.
The decision having been made, it became all about how. And how meant doing the opposite of everything he expected her to do. Everything he was prepared to handle. Without throwing him off his stride so much that he just killed her outright even at the loss of his own anticipated fun. It came into her head immediately, what to do. Scheherazade. She would tell him some good stories. Some of them might even be true. Maybe all of them. That wasn’t important. The only thing that mattered was keeping him more intrigued than annoyed. That shouldn’t be too difficult. She’d always had this weird ability to keep her head in a crisis. She couldn’t help thinking. She was betting he would like that, would like the challenge, someone who was on such an obvious ego trip as he was.”
― B.G. Harlen, Break Her

“(..) fear, stress, even the prospect of death can be physically arousing. Human nature is perverse. When it comes to sex, what's right isn't always what's exciting.”
― B.G. Harlen, Break Her

“Love means you want the other person to be happy”
― B.G. Harlen, Break Her