A Simple Favor Quotes

“You’d be amazed by what people will do. Things they’d never admit to anyone—not even to themselves.”
― Darcey Bell, A Simple Favor

“Some men lash out and leave marks, the black eyes and broken noses that send women to the emergency rooms and from there to the kindly social worker and the battered women’s shelter. But the real devils are the ones who hide the traces, who practice constant psychological abuse until the woman is all but destroyed.”
― Darcey Bell, A Simple Favor

“But if there were some version of luminol, the stuff they use to find blood at crime scenes, to detect the presence of grief, half the people we pass on the street would light up like Christmas trees. I”
― Darcey Bell, A Simple Favor

“My mother used to say: Everyone has secrets. That’s why you can never really know anyone else. Or trust anyone. It’s why you can never know yourself. Sometimes we even keep secrets from ourselves.”
― Darcey Bell, A Simple Favor

“But if there were some version of luminol, the stuff they use to find blood at crime scenes, to detect the presence of grief, half the people we pass on the street would light up like Christmas trees.”
― Darcey Bell, A Simple Favor

“My brain was no longer in control, if it had ever been. My heart was calling the shots. My heart was speaking to my friend. My heart said, Yes. What day? What time? What place? I’ll be there.”
― Darcey Bell, A Simple Favor

“There is always one person in a high-stakes game whom the others call “the fish.” And by the end of the game, the fish will have lost all his money.”
― Darcey Bell, A Simple Favor

“If Stephanie wants to play cat-and-mouse ... she can be the mouse. I will be the cat. The cat is patient. The mouse is scared. The mouse has reason to be scared. Because the cat always wins. The cat is the one having fun.”
― Darcey Bell, A Simple Favor

“Sweet Stephanie. You’d be amazed by what people will do. Things they’d never admit to anyone—not even to themselves.”
― Darcey Bell, A Simple Favor

“Dacă Stephanie vrea să joace pisica și șoarecele... ea poate fi șoarecele. Eu voi fi pisica. Pisica are răbdare. Șoarecele este speriat. Șoarecele are motive să se sperie. Pentru că pisica câștigă întotdeauna. Pisica este cea care se distrează.”
― Darcey Bell, A Simple Favor

“În jocurile cu mize mari există întotdeauna o persoană pe care ceilalți îi numesc ”peștele”. Iar până la fârșitul jocului, peștele își pierde toți banii. Dacă nu știi cine e peștele, sunt mari șanse să fii tu.”
― Darcey Bell, A Simple Favor

“Te înnebunește să descoperi că s-ar putea să fi greșit în privința cuiva. Este greu sa intelegi ce simți.”
― Darcey Bell, A Simple Favor

“It drives you crazy to find out that you might be wrong about someone. It's hard to understand how you feel.”
― Darcey Bell, A Simple Favor

“Mama obișnuia să spună că toată lumea are secrete. Acesta este motivul pentru care niciodată nu poți cunoaște cu adevarat pe cineva. Sau să ai încredere în cineva. Acesta este motivul pentru care nu te poți cunoaște pe tine. Uneori avem secrete chiar și față de noi înșine.”
― Darcey Bell, A Simple Favor

“I knew that I had never been happier. I vowed to make this last, to do everything in my power to overcome the impulse to tear my life up into tiny scraps and fling the pieces in the air. I promised myself that I would make it work, that I would never get restless again, that I wouldn’t let everyday things bore or annoy or scare me, that I’d stop trying to control the truth and instead live in the truth.

For as long as I could.”
― Darcey Bell, A Simple Favor

“Stephanie said, “I’m only telling the truth. About what I saw you do.” And then, to my horror, I understood: She believed what she was saying. I had no idea how she’d convinced herself, but she had. It had been wrong, from the start, to put our fate in the hands of a woman who had no thoughts, only feelings.”
― Darcey Bell, A Simple Favor

“How sick is that? Is there a twelve-step group for this? There is probably a group for survivors of everything that has happened in my life. Not that I would have gone.”
― Darcey Bell, A Simple Favor

“Maddening. You have the smartest, coolest idea in the world, but you have to fuck them first.”
― Darcey Bell, A Simple Favor

“Maybe loss unhinges me. Maybe grief sets loose some demon that would otherwise stay hidden deep inside me.”
― Darcey Bell, A Simple Favor

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― Darcey Bell, A Simple Favor

“amazed by what people will do. Things they’d never admit to anyone—not even to themselves.”
― Darcey Bell, A Simple Favor

“Kids have secrets. The imaginary friends, the things they’d get in trouble for if a grown-up ever found out.”
― Darcey Bell, A Simple Favor

“I vowed to make this last, to do everything in my power to overcome the impulse to tear my life up into tiny scraps and fling the pieces int he air. I promised myself that I would make it work, that I would never get restless again, that I wouldn't let everyday things bore or annoy or scare me, that I'd stop trying to control the truth and instead live in the truth.
For as long as I could.”
― Darcey Bell, A Simple Favor

“Everyone who has ever loved an addict or had one in the family knows how it goes, the hopes and disappointments, the plot turns always circling back to the same story. People get tired.”
― Darcey Bell, A Simple Favor

“[He] knew that I was lying. He knew in the way that people know and don't know things that they don't want to know about the person they love. But he knew just the same.”
― Darcey Bell, A Simple Favor

“I have to stop. but one thing I've learned about myself is that I"m not good at stopping something I want to do, especially when that something involves sex.”
― darcey bell, A Simple Favor

“It had been wrong, from the start, to put our fate in the hands of a woman who had no thoughts, only feelings.”
― Darcey Bell, A Simple Favor

“Before Miles was born, I read books. Every so often now I’ll pick up something by Virginia Woolf and read a few pages to remind myself of who I used to be—”
― Darcey Bell, A Simple Favor

“Atesoren cada momento que tienen la suerte de pasar con sus seres queridos. Porque nunca sabemos qué sucederá unos cuantos latidos después.”
― Darcey Bell, Un pequeño favor