The Comeback Quotes

“I think about another type of revenge -the quieter, less explosive kind I could inflict just by living my life in spite of him.”
― Ella Berman, The Comeback

“I know all about the power imbalance that exists every time you meet someone who's seen you at yourmost vulnerable, whether or not it was your choice in the first place. How you have to hope that they don't use it against you in some way.”
― Ella Berman, The Comeback

“I felt a vague disappointment, as if I'd worked myself up for a battle that wasn't worth it in the end.”
― Ella Berman, The Comeback

“People only want to hear the truth if it also happens to be what they want to hear.”
― Ella Berman, The Comeback

“I know that somebody hurt you. Now it's time for you to fuck shit up, baby lion.”
― Ella Berman, The Comeback

“Sometimes we forget that we can never really know someone else,you know, all of them. And that's okay, we're all allowed our secrets, but it does mean that ocassionally we mistake our own perspective, our own narrative, for theirs.”
― Ella Berman, The Comeback

“The most vicious demons have always been my own, and I’ve never learned how to protect myself from them. I have tried moving quietly through the world, figuring that if I could just forget what happened, then I could move on, but maybe it doesn’t work like that. Maybe it’s never been that simple.”
― Ella Berman, The Comeback

“I understand that sometimes the worst part of it all is that you lose control of your own story.”
― Ella Berman, The Comeback

“Everything feels like it's the end of the world until you're actually faced with the end of the world.”
― Ella Berman, The Comeback

“For a while now, I've had this 90-minute rule, I never spend longer that than 90 minutes in someone else's company (...) I think that it's easy to pretend to be someone for 90 minutes, but after that you can't help but let your guard down.”
― Ella Berman, The Comeback

“We were always living different versions of the same story.”
― Ella Berman, The Comeback

“For the first time since we met, I am the one with the power to threaten his happiness, but the power is all wrapped up in that threat, and as soon as I actually say the words that power will be released into the world for others to claim, fight over, apportion blame. After that, i would never be anything more than Able's victim, to the rest of the world too.”
― Ella Berman, The Comeback

“Remember that you aren’t accountable to anyone except for yourself. You need to keep your head down and focus on your own recovery. Fuck everyone else.”
― Ella Berman, The Comeback

“I may be fragile but I am brave, and more importantly, I am learning.”
― Ella Berman, The Comeback

“You know that at some point you have to make a choice. Life can be cruel and, even worse, random, and if the only way to get through it is to protect yourself, to find the good where you can and just forget about the rest, then is that such a bad thing?”
― Ella Berman, The Comeback

“I can almost remember what it was like to know I was happy at the exact moment I felt it, as opposed to only after the moment has passed.”
― Ella Berman, The Comeback

“Surely there must be some limit to how many times you're allowed to hurt another human.”
― Ella Berman, The Comeback

“I've always believed that the people who feel the most comfortable are the most dangerous to be around.”
― Ella Berman, The Comeback

“It all seemed so fragile to me, the trust we put in others without thinking about it.”
― Ella Berman, The Comeback

“There are an infinite number of things that are better than knowing exactly when you’re falling short of someone’s expectations and still being unable to stop it.”
― Ella Berman, The Comeback

“I had been nothing before him, so why would I be anything after him?”
― Ella Berman, The Comeback

“Remember that I know your limits better than you do. Mandy needed to know how easily you can be overwhelmed, and how that affects your processing and judgement, and how it can make you hostile to the people around you. It's not a bad thing, it's part of who you are, but I knew you would never tell her if something was wrong.”
― Ella Berman, The Comeback

“Okay. Well, I remember, and the world felt pretty fucking big back then. But what if every time something bad happens, it just makes your world a little smaller.” I take a deep breath in because the words are tumbling out now, racing to catch up with each other. “Until some days, you can’t even see the sky anymore.”
― Ella Berman, The Comeback

“Have you ever seen a sunset like this one? I hope you have, the wild pink sky slashed with flaming streaks of gold, the kind of sunset that makes you feel lucky, golden; the type that has the power to tell you that perhaps, for one small moment in time, you are exactly where you need to be.”
― Ella Berman, The Comeback

“I wonder what it would be like to actually know how I feel about something before I’ve already lost it.”
― Ella Berman, The Comeback

“It’s funny how easy it is to become a creature of habit, even when those habits are not your own.”
― Ella Berman, The Comeback

“You know at some point you have to make a choice. Life can be cruel, and even worse, random, and if the only way to get through it is to protect yourself, to find the good where you can and just forget about the rest, is that such a bad thing?”
― Ella Berman, The Comeback

“I don't exactly know what's happened to you, but I know that sometimes you can't change other people, you can only change how you respond to them, and that has to be enough.”
― Ella Berman, The Comeback

“But what if every time something bad happens, it just makes your world a little smaller.”
― Ella Berman, The Comeback

“I want to tell her that I know all about the power imbalance that exists every time you meet someone who's seen you at your most vulnerable, whether or not it was your choice in the first place.”
― Ella Berman, The Comeback