Doll House Quotes

“One day you woke up, looked around and started saying things like, “It was better back then,” or, “Music nowadays is just noise,” and when the words leave your lips, you’re stunned, thinking, man, when did this old guy appear?”
― John Hunt, Doll House

“The best lies, the most convincing, are the ones we tell ourselves. And no one can lie better better than an alcoholic. He”
― John Hunt, Doll House

“Maybe what she said to Mark made more sense. She wanted a friend. One to love her despite her scars, the ones on the surface and the deeper ones beneath.”
― John Hunt, Doll House

“thought I was done with you punk? Not by a long shot. You and me are welded together at the soul.”
― John Hunt, Doll House

“wanted to find bottom and stay there, where the pain wasn’t as sharp, where it didn’t have teeth.”
― John Hunt, Doll House

“Weird, to hold your heart in your arms and know you must let it go.”
― John Hunt, Doll House

“Don’t even pretend you’re normal, don’t even pretend you belong. She couldn’t see herself sitting at a table in a coffee shop while people around you talked of their ‘first world’ problems like they mattered. Like they were problems. They couldn’t comprehend what she had been through and they wouldn’t want to because it would disrupt the illusion of safety they had created.”
― John Hunt, Doll House

“Phone convos and clever texts are fine for a while but not forever. She needed that human touch.”
― John Hunt, Doll House

“Two broken people. Maybe they could help each other. Maybe they could heal each other.”
― John Hunt, Doll House

“She wanted to die. It was the one decision left to her, one she could contribute to, at least one thing she had control over. How could she get it done?”
― John Hunt, Doll House

“So, the way I read it, it’s like you can’t turn to yourself for help, because you’ve tried and failed every time. So you substitute yourself with something better, something that loves you even though you so often hate yourself. Something that truly sees you. It encourages you to stand before this other, being, God, whoever, completely naked, with all deceits stripped away. It forces introspection.” “So the God thing?” “It doesn’t matter, not really. The point is, people lie to themselves all the time to rationalize bad decisions or to keep drinking or whatever. This other, you can’t lie to because it sees all. So, you’re not praying to God, you’re praying to the self inside you, the other that sees past all the bullshit and won’t let you pull the wool over your own eyes. It’s always been there, it’s just been hogtied and shackled by the need for alcohol. You’re providing it with the key. And if you do happen to believe in God? The easier it is to submit. You shouldn’t struggle with something so inconsequential. In the end, the purpose is truth. To find out why you drink. Then you can heal. And if you’re lucky enough to understand it, you can share the knowledge with others.”
― John Hunt, Doll House

“Guilt doesn’t have to make sense. It just is. Maybe it’s because we think we are in control when, in reality, we control so little. We are the star of our own movies and we all want a happy ending don’t we? Except we are not the directors, there is no script and all we can ever do is the best we can. Day to day.”
― John Hunt, Doll House

“what she wanted was the kind of love only a dog could provide and the security attached to that love.”
― John Hunt, Doll House

“So, the way I read it, it’s like you can’t turn to yourself for help, because you’ve tried and failed every time. So you substitute yourself with something better, something that loves you even though you so often hate yourself. Something that truly sees you. It encourages you to stand before this other, being, God, whoever, completely naked, with all deceits stripped away. It forces introspection.”
― John Hunt, Doll House

“alcohol addiction wasn’t a beast easily tamed.”
― John Hunt, Doll House

“Better to float along passively than to participate in the rest of her life.”
― John Hunt, Doll House

“How’d you kill him?” “I bit his neck open.” At that, the girl with no hand smiled. A small smile, but it was there all the same and it gave Olivia hope.”
― John Hunt, Doll House

“She knew what Lucy meant.”
― John Hunt, Doll House

“The best lies, the most convincing, are the ones we tell ourselves. And no one can lie better than an alcoholic.”
― John Hunt, Doll House

“Time healed all wounds?”
― John Hunt, Doll House

“time apart wasn’t making it any easier. If truth be told, it was making it worse.   .  ”
― John Hunt, Doll House

“It just happened? That’s what you’re going with?” The”
― John Hunt, Doll House

“In her mind she was already dead. Hours”
― John Hunt, Doll House

“She felt herself shutting down,”
― John Hunt, Doll House

“keep it together! Don’t you cry!”
― John Hunt, Doll House

“how much love can a heart hold? Limitless.”
― John Hunt, Doll House

“My heart! You’ve broken it!”
― John Hunt, Doll House