Playing with Trouble Quotes

“Sometimes the bravest thing you could do was admit you’d made a mistake.”
― Chanel Cleeton, Playing with Trouble

“He was no longer my professor, no longer someone I loathed. He was hands I needed on my body, lips I wanted kissing mine.”
― Chanel Cleeton, Playing with Trouble

“I didn’t understand why she always did that; why she acted like her accomplishments were nothing more than her doing what was expected rather than an achievement to be celebrated. She didn’t give herself nearly enough credit.”
― Chanel Cleeton, Playing with Trouble

“I’d have been lying if I didn’t admit that the giant unknown in my future terrified me; that there was security in following the path others set for you. The question mark hovering in front of me was equal parts monster-under-the-bed scary and exciting. My future was a blank canvas now rather than a picture that didn’t fit. But it was mine.”
― Chanel Cleeton, Playing with Trouble

“If I’d learned anything in all of this, it was that loving someone for who you wanted them to be, instead of who they were, wasn’t love at all.”
― Chanel Cleeton, Playing with Trouble

“I’m going to love who I’m going to love, and you can either trust me and know that you raised me to be the kind of person who wouldn’t love someone who wasn’t good for me, or you can’t.”
― Chanel Cleeton, Playing with Trouble

“Now I was staring down the point in my life where I was supposed to know where I was going and I was utterly clueless. I wasn’t a kid anymore. I couldn’t make excuses, couldn’t blame my parents, couldn’t afford to take time to “figure myself out.” But the truth was, I didn’t really know who I was anymore. I knew pieces, understood some of it, but not all. But maybe knowing what didn’t work for me was one of the first steps to figuring out what did work. Maybe I needed to fail in order to wake up and see that I was throwing my life away trying to be someone I wasn’t.”
― Chanel Cleeton, Playing with Trouble

“You don’t have to be perfect, Blair. You just have to be you. The people who count will love you for you, not because you’re some freakishly perfect version of you that isn’t real. Don’t be scared to give that to other people.”
― Chanel Cleeton, Playing with Trouble

“I thought I was supposed to follow this path, and that it would take me where I was supposed to end up, and that was it. And then I started down the path, and when I got to the end, I realized it wasn’t what I wanted. And somewhere along the way, the person I am on the inside, that little voice in my head that I couldn’t shut off, became completely different from the person I am on the outside. And I don’t know how or why, just that I feel like I’m trapped in my own body. Trapped as this person I don’t want to be.”
― Chanel Cleeton, Playing with Trouble

“I could have blamed the drinks for the words that tumbled from my lips, but that would have been too easy. The words had been there for years, pushing to get out, trapped behind manners, and social rules, and the media following my every fucking move.”
― Chanel Cleeton, Playing with Trouble

“This was not me. This was touching the stove and then acting surprised when I got burned.”
― Chanel Cleeton, Playing with Trouble

“I hadn't been looking for trouble, but it seemed that now that I'd found it, I wasn't running from it, either.”
― Chanel Cleeton, Playing with Trouble

“Kiss me. I want to feel what it's like to be kissed by a man who wants me," I whispered. "Please.”
― Chanel Cleeton, Playing with Trouble

“She was an indulgence, a dangerous one, but weren’t those the best kind?”
― Chanel Cleeton, Playing with Trouble

“I'm not the hero, Blair. And somehow I still got the princess."
"Honey, I'm pretty sure you're the beast. And I am definitely not a princess. I thought we just established that."
"You're my princess. Dirty mouth, naughty lingerie, wicked tongue, formidable temper, and all.”
― Chanel Cleeton, Playing with Trouble

“She was like a dream I'd given up long ago. A different life, a better me. A chance to wash the filth away.”
― Chanel Cleeton, Playing with Trouble

“I wanted to consume her; I wanted to break her and put her back together again, because that's what I did - I broke things.”
― Chanel Cleeton, Playing with Trouble

“I stared down into her eyes, trying to read the emotions I saw there. I wanted her. More than a dance. More than a fuck.
I was drunk on her, and in this case, sobriety was just out of my reach.”
― Chanel Cleeton, Playing with Trouble

“This was what happened when perfect cracked and splintered. This was what happened when your life fell apart.”
― Chanel Cleeton, Playing with Trouble

“It was the cruelest irony that the man I despised, the man who tortured me from the front of the classroom three days a week, was the hottest fucking thing I'd ever seen.”
― Chanel Cleeton, Playing with Trouble