Play Nice Quotes

“The world will drive a woman insane, then point at them and laugh.”
― Rachel Harrison, Play Nice

“Behind every crazy woman is a man sitting very quietly, saying, “What? I’m not doing anything.”
― Rachel Harrison, Play Nice

“think it’s just easier to call someone crazy than it is to admit that they could be right. Easier to call someone crazy than to confront the nuance of their circumstance, than to accept the callous cruelty that exists in the world we live in, the evil out there that revels in our suffering.”
― Rachel Harrison, Play Nice

“Remembering is not always a light shone into darkness. Sometimes it’s a claw reaching out and dragging you back.”
― Rachel Harrison, Play Nice

“the easiest way to tell who a man really is, is to injure his ego and see how he reacts.”
― Rachel Harrison, Play Nice

“Some lessons can only be taught by regret.”
― Rachel Harrison, Play Nice

“It just makes me wonder about belief and delusion. What’s the difference there, really? Maybe delusion is an eagerness to believe. A desperation for it.”
― Rachel Harrison, Play Nice

“Everyone in my life wants me to behave in a very specific way that’s beneficial to them, and as soon as I deviate from their expectations, it’s an issue. As soon as I act out of whatever role they cast me in in their lives, it’s somehow my fault.”
― Rachel Harrison, Play Nice

“How many times have I witnessed a man declare he was outraged over some indiscretion that he himself was later found guilty of? How many proud gentlemen revealed to be wolves?”
― Rachel Harrison, Play Nice

“I empathize with the binding of this 15 year old paperback, in how it's struggling to keep it all together.”
― Rachel Harrison, Play Nice

“But so often, being right means nothing but winning a round of a losing game.”
― Rachel Harrison, Play Nice

“I almost tell him that he smells like smoke, almost tell him that he smells like fascism, almost ask him if, after libraries, he plans on taking his flamethrower to the museums. I almost tell him how close I am to hating him. But my throat is sore, and I’m struggling to keep my eyes open.”
― Rachel Harrison, Play Nice

“Turns out, I was right. But so often, being right means nothing but winning a round of a losing game.”
― Rachel Harrison, Play Nice

“Turns out, I was right. But so often, being right means nothing but winning a round of a losing game. What an empty victory.”
― Rachel Harrison, Play Nice

“Men are never selfish. They’re smart. Women are always selfish. You want to be single? Selfish. You’re a wife and mother and do anything other than dote on your husband and children? Selfish. I want you and your sisters to learn to take that word as a compliment. Anyone who says that to you is trying to discourage you from doing what you want. That’s how you know you’re doing something right.”
― Rachel Harrison, Play Nice

“Behind every crazy woman is a man sitting very quietly, saying, “What? I’m not doing anything.” —Jade”
― Rachel Harrison, Play Nice

“I don’t spend a whole lot of time pawing around my memory. A childhood like mine doesn’t exactly invite reminiscing. But sometimes it eats at me. Wondering what memories are beyond retrieval, are totally lost. Wondering what hides in the haze.”
― Rachel Harrison, Play Nice

“I want to get champagne drunk with her and have her tell me all her wild bullshit stories and give me compliment after compliment and let me rummage through her closet.”
― Rachel Harrison, Play Nice

“I wonder if love can be ugly. If it can do the wrong thing. Bad things. I wonder if it can ever really die.”
― Rachel Harrison, Play Nice

“If we don’t remember something, how can we be sure it never happened?”
― Rachel Harrison, Play Nice

“You’re here because I’m fun and because this isn’t serious. I start crying to you about my feelings, then I’m not fun anymore. Then I’ll be too much. And then you’ll go find fun someplace else, and then I’ll be alone and all fucked-up.”
― Rachel Harrison, Play Nice

“Another lesson from my mother, one she taught by unfortunate example. By showing us what not to do. By showing us how important it is to be in complete control of your emotions. It’s too dangerous the other way around.”
― Rachel Harrison, Play Nice

“But so often”
― Rachel Harrison, Play Nice

“It just makes me wonder about belief and delusion. What’s the difference there”
― Rachel Harrison, Play Nice

“Men love a beautiful fool. Weak men, rather.”
― Rachel Harrison, Play Nice

“Sometimes silence isn’t peace; it’s war.”
― Rachel Harrison, Play Nice

“maybe what’s written is faithful to her recollection, to how it played out in her mind. One person’s truth is another’s fiction.”
― Rachel Harrison, Play Nice

“I’m supposed to go to Dad’s today. Which means I need to take New Jersey Transit. As if the one tragedy wasn’t enough.”
― Rachel Harrison, Play Nice

“I’d rather you girls open your legs before you ever open your hearts,”
― Rachel Harrison, Play Nice

“But the easiest way to tell who a man really is, is to injure his ego and see how he reacts.”
― Rachel Harrison, Play Nice