Quotes from Robyn Harding

her heart fluttered like a moth at a porch light.

Sometimes, we do things we don't feel good about to survive. It doesn't mean you're a bad person." His sympathy, his assurance had brought her perilously close to tears. But she couldn't cry about this. She had known what she was getting into. No strings.

Boys will be boys, people said, as if being a cruel, destructive monster was a rite of passage.

What did she know about growing up average in the age of Instagram? In a postfeminist world with rampant impostor syndrome and an epidemic of anxiety?

Lee saved my life that day. I thought she'd disrupted my plan, destroyed my future, but if I had gotten into that boat with Jesse, I'd be dead. I am only alive because of her.

there is more than one way to play the game. And there is more than one way to win it.

I was just about to get up when I heard the egg hit the front window.

It was like trying to hand-feed a grizzly bear.

Consensual nonconsent is not uncommon in sexual relationships: pretending to resist and protest while prior consent has been given. Plenty of normal, loving couples play this way.

I remember reading that sociopaths are made—shaped by their environment and circumstances—but psychopaths are born. Their manipulative nature, their lack of remorse, their delight in hurting others, is genetic, predetermined.

One of his criminal associates hired me to represent him. That's how he found you, Hazel. He targeted you.

When a person is falling in love, they ignore the warning signs.