Giving Up Quotes

“When did Jamie Williams become such a bad bitch? I fucking love it.”
― Lola King, Giving Up

“How does it feel, Angel? To be worshipped by the devil?”
― Lola King, Giving Up

“Jake, you can’t be mad at her. You’ve been going back to your good old ways since you’ve been back. Fucking around like you belong to nobody. She’s allowed to do the same.”
― Lola King, Giving Up

“Jamie Williams brought me to my knees, and then she left me there. Aching for her, aching for her love.”
― Lola King, Giving Up

“Don’t let her talk! She’ll break your heart!”
― Lola King, Giving Up

“For fuck’s sake after everything he did. Why would you give him your heart when I’m right here begging for it!”
― Lola King, Giving Up

“As long as your heart beats, mine will beat along with it. That’s what he had told me. Tell me, Jake. Has your heart stopped beating yet? Because you completely annihilated mine.”
― Lola King, Giving Up

“You broke my heart. You shouldn’t have cared how I fixed it.”
― Lola King, Giving Up

“No one will ever love me like Jamie did. No one will ever love her like I do.”
― Lola King, Giving Up

“She wants to heal me. And you know what the worst thing is? I want to let her. And I can’t. So no matter what, I have to push her away.”
― Lola King, Giving Up

“Because no matter what you do to me, I want you back. Because I still think I can change you. Because I can’t move on. Because I still love you.”
― Lola King, Giving Up

“You’d hate it, you’d be nothing and I’d be your everything.”
― Lola King, Giving Up

“Don’t,” he snaps. “Don’t…don’t giggle. Don’t show me how fucking happy we could be.”
― Lola King, Giving Up

“Instead, she laughs back at me. “I couldn’t care less if you think that’s not who I am. It isn’t. But as long as you suffer, I don’t care if I lose myself in the process.”
― Lola King, Giving Up

“If I thought controlling her was a turn-on, her fighting back is the fucking cherry on top.”
― Lola King, Giving Up

“I feel dizzier from her closeness than from any drugs or alcohol I ingested tonight. Jamie is my fucking drug, she’s my demise, my doom. Everything about her is exactly what I want and exactly what I can’t have. Jamie is my unattainable utopia.”
― Lola King, Giving Up

“Nah. Don’t try to talk to me again. I will fuck you up if I have to. I don’t because I like your sister. Simple as that. So next time you address yourself to me, remind your little brain that I’m no princess, alright? I’m a motherfucking king. So bow the fuck down,” she finishes through gritted teeth. She pushes Billie hard enough that she loses balance and falls to the floor. Rose chuckles low as she looks down at her. “Yeah, just like that.”
― Lola King, Giving Up

“You want me to tell you what pathetic is? It’s disappearing without a trace and then still believing you can call this yours.” I gesture at my body with a hand. “It’s having to wait for another guy to get me wet before you can stick it in me.”
― Lola King, Giving Up

“He bullied you, Jamie! He humiliated you! He threatened you! He blackmailed you! He used you. And worst of all…he made you fall in love with him. Just to leave you behind.”
― Lola King, Giving Up

“How dare he? Break up with me. And move. On.”
― Lola King, Giving Up

“Just like discovering the acid taste of lemon for the first time, the acrid taste of a first cigarette, the sting of our first fall, I believe the first heartbreak is the one that teaches us how dangerous love can be. It creates and it destroys. And you, you used it to break me. To wreck my heart, to decimate my inner bliss. You decided I was not worthy of your love. You decided I was not good enough. If I wasn’t good enough for you… Then without you, I am nothing.”
― Lola King, Giving Up

“You were nothing but my everything.”
― Lola King, Giving Up

“I fought it. God knows I fought against our fated, toxic love. For you, I gave in, I took a leap of faith like never before. I put my trust in you, I gave you my love, my tears, my whole. I was nothing but an extension of you, I existed through and for you.”
― Lola King, Giving Up

“I’m a lost cause. I like bad people doing bad things to me. I like it even better when it’s Jake.”
― Lola King, Giving Up

“Seeing the tiny thing that is my mom stand up to the White brothers is something I never thought I’d see.”
― Lola King, Giving Up

“The size of a peanut and the braveness of a warrior, that’s Jamie. I chuckle at my stupid comparison. What a poet I am.”
― Lola King, Giving Up

“Jake isn’t getting the good side of me anymore. It’s over. He shouldn’t have come back because he triggered something in me. I’m taking him down.”
― Lola King, Giving Up