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

“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

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

“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

“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

“It takes so much to build an image. It takes next to nothing to destroy one.”
― Rachel Harrison, Play Nice

“It’s not easy to meet people when you live with your mom,” he says, shrugging, then sucking down the last of his milkshake. Maybe, but women don’t care. It’s a confidence issue. Charlie Manson didn’t own property, and he was only five foot two. But he had charisma. And good hair. I think I might think about Charlie Manson too much.”
― Rachel Harrison, Play Nice

“Resentment clanks against the prison of my teeth.”
― Rachel Harrison, Play Nice

“There’s something terrible about that time between lightning and thunder. That cruel purgatory of anticipation, waiting for the universe to scream.”
― 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

“My reassurance is genuine. My resentment unfounded. Yet they exist in tandem, threads of the same rope.”
― Rachel Harrison, Play Nice

“Men are all the same, Mom once told us, but it’s the ones who try the hardest to convince you that they’re good that you really have to watch out for.”
― 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 recognize myself in her face, her expression, and it’s exhilarating. This is the magic of family. The sense that you’re not alone in the universe, in your body, because there’s someone else out there who shares your DNA, who’s made up of the same stuff you’re made of. I haven’t seen Helen in years, but I saw her earlier in the mirror. We don’t know each other, but we do.”
― Rachel Harrison, Play Nice

“When he finally speaks, it’s in a whisper. “The demon.” So dramatic. I wonder how good of a demonologist he is. How good of a demonologist can one really be?”
― Rachel Harrison, Play Nice