Bad Romance Quotes

“Maybe the only way you really know you love someone is it they can break you with a single sentence.”
― Heather Demetrios, Bad Romance

“When you're a stupid girl in love, it's almost impossible to see the red flags. It's so easy to pretend they're not there, to pretend everything is perfect.”
― Heather Demetrios, Bad Romance

“I gave you my heart on a silver fucking platter and you ate it, piece by bloody piece.”
― Heather Demetrios, Bad Romance

“This is something else I will learn while I am with you-not now, but later: there are so many ways to drown.”
― Heather Demetrios, Bad Romance

“That's how the worst year of my life starts--in a Mustang with steamed-up windows, with a beautiful boy who cries.”
― Heather Demetrios, Bad Romance

“Now I look at that girl who adores you, who thinks she’s safe with you, and I want to scream at her to jump out of that car and run like hell. Because you won’t be her happy place for long.”
― Heather Demetrios, Bad Romance

“Sometimes I cry, wondering how it was possible that I could have been so goddamn weak, so f*cking spineless. Without you around, I can finally see all the ways you'd kept my heart shackled to yours.”
― Heather Demetrios, Bad Romance

“Something in me is dimming, something that I already know I can’t get back. But you’re worth it. You are. I will tell myself this for several more months. And when I realize you aren’t worth it, it’ll be too late.”
― Heather Demetrios, Bad Romance

“I'm the girl who's desperate to get out of her small town because if she doesn't she knows she'll die. She knows her soul will start to rot, like fruit gone bad.”
― Heather Demetrios, Bad Romance

“I'm not over the moon. I'm on the moon. It's surreal, this happiness. I'm scared the universe will notice and take you away from me. Because it isn't fair, how good I feel.”
― Heather Demetrios, Bad Romance

“You're a maze, all high edges and endless loops. I can't find a way out, can't see where I've been. It's all running, lost in the dark of you. Trapped. Everywhere I turn is a dead end. I keep winding up back where I've started.”
― Heather Demetrios, Bad Romance

“The sad swims through your veins, dives right into the middle of your chest with no help at all from me.”
― Heather Demetrios, Bad Romance

“We all wear strange armor to get through the day.”
― Heather Demetrios, Bad Romance

“You're not very deep."
You say these cutting words thoughtfully, to yourself, almost as though you're surprised. They hit me somewhere below my ribs.

I think of the dictionary app on my phone that I have to use all the time when I'm reading stuff like The Master and Margarita or The Awakening. Or that one time when I missed sophomoric on a vocab quiz. And how I totally don't get why girls love Jane Austen. You're right: I'm not deep.

I find myself watching every word I say to you, wondering what they say about me. I look for disappointment in your eyes... I've been walking on eggshells for a week.”
― Heather Demetrios, Bad Romance

“Sex.

It's the last thing I want, but how could I possibly say that to my boyfriend who I've been with for almost a year?”
― Heather Demetrios, Bad Romance

“Fuck you for saying the perfect thing, Gavin.”
― Heather Demetrios, Bad Romance

“With your lips on mine, your song still in my ears, I forget that I never said yes, that all of it - the dance, us - was a foregone conclusion. You told me to be your girlfriend. You didn't wait for me to answer about prom. I gave you my heart on a silver fucking platter and you ate it, piece by bloody piece.”
― Heather Demetrios, Bad Romance

“Have you read my emails before?" I ask.
I try to keep my voice casual but I can hear the anxiety in it. The What the f*ck in it.

When you're a stupid girl in love, it's almost impossible to see the red flags. It's so easy to pretend they're not there, to pretend that everything is perfect.”
― Heather Demetrios, Bad Romance

“...you turn and grab my chin--not hard, but the way you do with a child when you want them to focus on you. It feels strange, being touched this way by you. Parental. A siren goes off in the back of my mind, but I ignore it. (Oh god, Gavin, why did I ignore it? Why couldn't I see through you?")”
― Heather Demetrios, Bad Romance

“I will bury myself alive. I will cut my skin to shreds. I swear I will, I will. And I'll burn this fucking house down if it means I can cut you loose, be free, be without Gavin Davis.”
― Heather Demetrios, Bad Romance

“I don't know what just happened. I'm shaking and I'm scared and confused. I do know that I used to feel safe with you - and I don't anymore.”
― Heather Demetrios, Bad Romance

“I feel trapped in this car with you and for the first time since we've gotten together, I want to be somewhere you're not.”
― Heather Demetrios, Bad Romance

“you’re like a goddamn drug that I can’t get enough of. do you have any idea how addictive you are? I should turn you into pills, sell you on the street.”
― Heather Demetrios, Bad Romance

“Maybe the only way you really know you love someone is if they can break you with a single sentence.”
― Heather Demetrios, Bad Romance

“Each lie is something that’s mine, that my mom and The Giant can’t take away from me. Each lie reminds me I’m an actual person with rights and desires and the ability to make choices on her own. Each lie is power—control over my life.”
― Heather Demetrios, Bad Romance

“You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it’s better to listen to what it has to say.”
― Heather Demetrios, Bad Romance

“Medicine, law, business, engineering are necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, and love—these are what we live for.”
― Heather Demetrios, Bad Romance

“Lately, I catch myself lying all the time, little fibs that buy me extra minutes with you. Instead of feeling bad about it, I feel liberated. Being a good kid hasn’t been working out for me. So I let the bad girl in. Each lie is something that’s mine, that my mom and The Giant can’t take away from me. Each lie reminds me I’m an actual person with rights and desires and the ability to make choices on her own. Each lie is power—control over my life.”
― Heather Demetrios, Bad Romance

“It's only later that I'll see you're feeding me rehearsed lines and perfectly timed smiles and gasps and tears that come at precisely the right moment. A year from now I'll be screaming "Fuck you, FUCK YOU" into a pillow because I won't have the guts to say the words to your face.
But right now, a boy is staring at me from the end of the hall and even though he doesn't say a word, he's claimed me.
I'm new territory and you've planted your flag.”
― Heather Demetrios, Bad Romance

“You knew that if you survived that accident, there's no way I could ever leave you again. Not unless I want your blood on my hands. You're lucky your gamble paid off. Now you can do or say whatever you want, can't you. You've got me right where you've always wanted me.

You win.”
― Heather Demetrios, Bad Romance