Layne Fargo > Quotes

“There are lots of different kinds of love. Love like a steady, warming campfire that keeps you alive in the cold. Love like a raging blaze that burns down everything in its path until nothing but ash remains.”
― Layne Fargo, The Favorites

“Imagine being down so bad you’d master a whole Olympic sport to spend time with someone.”
― Layne Fargo, The Favorites

“His love for me hadn't been motivation enough to reach his full potential. His hatred, though? That made him capable of anything.”
― Layne Fargo, The Favorites

“The thing is, when pushing your limits is all you know, when it seems normal to you...it's hard to remember you even have limits. Until you run right into them.”
― Layne Fargo, The Favorites

“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

“We used to joke that they were going to die in each other's arms or kill each other with their bare hands. Nothing in between.”
― Layne Fargo, The Favorites

“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

“I became a skater because I wanted to feel like that. Fierce. Confident. A warrior goddess covered in glitter. So sure of myself, I could make my dreams come true through sheer force of will.”
― Layne Fargo, The Favorites

“Happiness couldn’t be won. It couldn’t be hung around our necks while a crowd of thousands cheered. It wasn’t a prize, something we had to suffer and toil to earn. If we wanted happiness, we had to create it ourselves. Not in one shining moment on a medal stand, but every single day, over and over again.”
― Layne Fargo, The Favorites

“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

“You can always be better. But don't let that stop you from carrying yourself like a champion. If you don't believe you're the best, no one else will either.”
― Layne Fargo, The Favorites

“When a woman smacks a man in the face? She usually has a damn good reason.”
― Layne Fargo, The Favorites

“Heath had a bottomless pit inside him too, but it had nothing to do with ambition. No matter how much love I gave him, it would never be enough. He wanted to be everything to me, the way I was everything to him. And I would always want more.”
― Layne Fargo, The Favorites

“I hated them. I wanted to be them. I couldn't take my eyes off them.”
― Layne Fargo, The Favorites

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

“They wanted a grand, epic love story. They wanted raw, rip-your-clothes-off passion. They didn’t simply want us to be lovers—they wanted us to be so in love, we’d burn the whole world down to be together. ”
― Layne fargo, The Favorites

“I may not have an Olympic gold medal, but I have something better: a life where I spend every day with my favorite people in the world, doing exactly what I love. If that's not winning, I don't know what is.”
― Layne Fargo, The Favorites

“I'd convinced myself if I became the best, it didn't matter who I hurt, because in the end, it would be worth it. Even if I hurt myself most of all.”
― Layne Fargo, The Favorites

“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

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

“Interview: “Do you consider yourself a role model?” the interviewer asks? “As the first Chinese-American woman to win the Olympic gold in ice dance, you-“
Sheiks interrupts. “I think you mean the first American woman.”
― Layne fargo, The Favorites

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

“He enjoyed winning, but he didn't feel the same gnawing ache of ambition, the bottomless pit inside me that got exactly what it wanted and then demanded more, more, more”
― Layne Fargo, The Favorites

“Francesca had grown up watching me, like I'd grown up watching Sheila. She said I was inspiring, but what had I inspired? There was no joy left in her, no light. Those smiles were a mask, concealing a molten core of grasping ambition.

I wanted to shake her by the shoulders and tell her it wasn't too late. She could wake up. She could realize there was more to life than winning.

Happiness couldn't be won. It couldn't be hung around our necks while a crowd of thousands cheered. It wasn't a prize, something we had to suffer and toil to earn. If we wanted happiness, we had to create it ourselves. Not in one shining moment on a medal stand, but every single day, over and over again.

I could have told Francesca all that, but it wouldn't have mattered. She'd have to learn for herself, like I did.”
― Layne Fargo, The Favorites

“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

“Soon, I told myself, staring into the shadows beyond my bedroom window, Heath and I would be free of this place. And no matter what, we would be together.”
― Layne Fargo, The Favorites

“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