They Never Learn Quotes

“But little do they know: killing a man is so much more satisfying than fucking a man could ever be.”
― Layne Fargo, They Never Learn

“You're next, motherfucker.”
― Layne Fargo, They Never Learn

“He wasn’t afraid of me. That was his first mistake.’ ”
― Layne Fargo, They Never Learn

“Even in his final moments, I doubt he learned his lesson. But I didn’t kill him to teach him a lesson; I killed him to carve him out of this world like a tumor. And I’d do it again.”
― Layne Fargo, They Never Learn

“It’s exhausting, being in my head. I wish I could stop thinking. I wish I could be like everyone else.”
― Layne Fargo, They Never Learn

“All the cutest girls are bi, didn’t you get the memo?”
― Layne Fargo, They Never Learn

“I’m not an object or an obstacle to him anymore. I’m his goddamn ruination.”
― Layne Fargo, They Never Learn

“Reading was my most reliable escape in childhood, the one way I could get away from my father while still trapped in the same space with him.”
― Layne Fargo, They Never Learn

“His face darkens with a mixture of embarrassment and anger- perhaps the most dangerous combination in a man.”
― Layne Fargo, They Never Learn

“He wasn’t afraid of me. That was his first mistake.”
― Layne Fargo, They Never Learn

“I have so many more men to kill.”
― Layne Fargo, They Never Learn

“His abuse was all emotional and psychological; the only marks it left were internal. Impossible to see, easy to deny.”
― Layne Fargo, They Never Learn

“Who’s smiling now, motherfucker?”
― Layne Fargo, They Never Learn

“If men like that could learn the error of their ways, I wouldn’t have to teach so many of them a lesson.”
― Layne Fargo, They Never Learn

“His face darkens with a mixture of embarrassment and anger—perhaps the most dangerous combination of emotions in a man.”
― Layne Fargo, They Never Learn

“Men like him don’t want a relationship, they want a fan club. The more members the better.”
― Layne Fargo, They Never Learn

“It’s me, I’m the one, and I did it all to protect women like us. I did it, and I’d do it again.”
― Layne Fargo, They Never Learn

“Trying to get away from me, because she's afraid. Afraid of me. I feel so alert, blood thrumming, muscles coiled, like her fear is feeding me.”
― Layne Fargo, They Never Learn

“I don’t know how to do this: make friends, talk to girls, talk to anyone my age really. In high school, kids only acknowledged my existence if they wanted something, like help studying for their AP English final.”
― Layne Fargo, They Never Learn

“I know I shouldn’t take it out on him—he’s not the enemy here—but it felt good, letting a little bit of the rage break through. Like spitting out poison.”
― Layne Fargo, They Never Learn

“Men like them are the ones who really get away with murder.”
― Layne Fargo, They Never Learn

“Destroying these beautiful books sparks more guilt in me than any of the murders I’ve committed, but at least they’re serving a purpose.”
― Layne Fargo, They Never Learn

“I return to the bookcases, pulling down as many volumes as I can carry and dropping them on top of Kinnear, until he’s covered head to toe with the words of the dead white men he loved so dearly.”
― Layne Fargo, They Never Learn

“He's just like the rest of them. Bash, Alex. My father. They want us to bend and bend, let them say and do whatever they want to us. They get away with it, over and over again.”
― Layne Fargo, They Never Learn

“marriage.”
― Layne Fargo, They Never Learn

“I’d had this same thought about my father. His abuse was all emotional and psychological; the only marks it left were internal. Impossible to see, easy to deny.”
― Layne Fargo, They Never Learn

“desire building in me like a scream.”
― Layne Fargo, They Never Learn

“I remember every man I’ve killed, in vivid detail. His name, his crimes. His last words, if I allowed him to have any.”
― Layne Fargo, They Never Learn

“True justice would have been bolting the fraternity house doors and setting the whole place on fire, burning every one of those boys in their beds. I might not even have needed to douse the place in kerosene first, considering every surface is sticky with spilled alcohol. But I can’t kill them all, not unless I want to get caught. I’ve spent the past sixteen years murdering men who deserve it, and I’m not about to get sloppy now.”
― Layne Fargo, They Never Learn

“He wasn’t afraid of me, I write. That was his first mistake”
― Layne Fargo, They Never Learn