Play Nice Quotes

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

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

“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

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

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

“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

“Some lessons can only be taught by regret.”
― 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

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

“The world will drive a woman insane”
― Rachel Harrison, Play Nice

“One visit to the house, and I’m entertaining the possibility that maybe a place can make you crazy.”
― Rachel Harrison, Play Nice

“Men are all the same”
― Rachel Harrison, Play Nice

“Behind every crazy woman is a man sitting very quietly”
― Rachel Harrison, Play Nice

“There’s something terrible about that time between lightning and thunder. That cruel purgatory of anticipation”
― Rachel Harrison, Play Nice

“I approached her”
― Rachel Harrison, Play Nice

“Motherhood irrevocably changed me. Years in”
― Rachel Harrison, Play Nice

“I sip my champagne. I like it better than the beer. I wish I had simpler tastes, but I don’t.”
― Rachel Harrison, Play Nice

“the easiest way to tell who a man really is”
― Rachel Harrison, Play Nice

“it’s just easier to call someone crazy than it is to admit that they could be right.”
― Rachel Harrison, Play Nice

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

“Part of me is flattered, because I love attention. We have that in common, the demon and me. I like being the favorite.”
― Rachel Harrison, Play Nice

“I remember flirting with Ethan at Veronica’s launch party. Lucky to live with scars, I said. And he said, Better to live without. I’m not totally sure. Who would I be without my scars? Who would my sisters be?”
― Rachel Harrison, Play Nice