Role Playing Quotes

“If you can’t handle me in sweatpants, you don’t deserve me in stilettos,”
― Cathy Yardley, Role Playing

“Start shit, get hit,” he replied,”
― Cathy Yardley, Role Playing

“To my mother . . . I finally get it. This raising kids shit? Is hard. Thank you for not giving up. To my father . . . I miss you, and I hope you’ve found peace. And finally, to my son. You are a weird, amazing, hysterically funny, brilliant person who has flourished in spite of my awkward parenting skills. I can’t wait to see where life takes you.”
― Cathy Yardley, Role Playing

“It was like butterflies on meth in his stomach,”
― Cathy Yardley, Role Playing

“Another moment of quiet. Apparently, when he decided to come out, he came all the way out. But ever since he figured out that what he was—whatever he was—was something that other people were too . . . it had been hard to walk back. He didn’t want to. It was like he’d known for years that there was something wrong with him—and now he knew there wasn’t, that this was a valid thing.”
― Cathy Yardley, Role Playing

“I would rather eat my own intestines than cross your threshold.”
― Cathy Yardley, Role Playing

“He wanted to help, to do things that would make her life easier and make her feel better.”
― Cathy Yardley, Role Playing

“God, if she caught feelings, she would have to kick her own ass. This was not going to happen.”
― Cathy Yardley, Role Playing

“and you’re slightly more domesticated than a coyote.”
― Cathy Yardley, Role Playing

“This was why she didn't make IRL friends. It was easier when she had a task, an assignment. When she was useful. Just asking for his attention felt wrong and twisted her already knotty anxiety into a braid.”
― Cathy Yardley, Role Playing

“Some people might think this erratic, possibly a cause for concern. She preferred to think of it as not giving a single, solitary fuck.”
― Cathy Yardley, Role Playing