Robyn Harding > Quotes

“When a person is falling in love, they ignore the warning signs.”
― Robyn Harding, The Drowning Woman

“In sociological terms, they call it the fundamental attribution error. Basically, it means that when people see someone in a bad situation, they tend to believe that individual brought it on themselves. Of course, there are always external, situational forces at play, but it’s human nature to think it could never happen to you. You’d fight back differently if attacked; crawl your way out of the burning building; wouldn’t fall for that online scam. And, of course, you’d never end up sleeping on the streets. Those people have drug problems, mental health issues, no work ethic.”
― Robyn Harding, The Drowning Woman

“there is more than one way to play the game. And there is more than one way to win it.”
― Robyn Harding, The Drowning Woman

“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.”
― Robyn Harding, The Arrangement

“her heart fluttered like a moth at a porch light.”
― Robyn Harding, Her Pretty Face

“Desperate people will commit desperate acts.”
― Robyn Harding, The Drowning Woman

“Fear and desperation can make you do terrible things. I should know.”
― Robyn Harding, The Drowning Woman

“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.”
― Robyn Harding, The Drowning Woman

“It was like trying to hand-feed a grizzly bear.”
― Robyn Harding, The Perfect Family

“No one asks and no one cares. They’re just people…I see that now. They’re just doing what they have to.”
― Robyn Harding, The Drowning Woman

“Boys will be boys, people said, as if being a cruel, destructive monster was a rite of passage.”
― Robyn Harding, The Perfect Family

“As the highway stretches out before me, my fear dissipates, replaced by an unfamiliar sensation. It is freedom. For the first time in years, I can do what I want—without permission, demands, or limitations.”
― Robyn Harding, The Drowning Woman

“Self-pity is an indulgence I don’t have time for.”
― Robyn Harding, The Drowning Woman

“I just live up the street,” she says, looking away, ashamed for me. “Eight thousand square feet, right on the water. But it’s a prison.” “Better than living like this,” I mutter, eyes on my home on wheels. “No,” she says. “It’s not.” Without another word, she walks away.”
― Robyn Harding, The Drowning Woman

“Друзі не стоятимуть осторонь, спостерігаючи, як ти перекреслюєш ціле своє життя.”
― Robyn Harding, The Perfect Family

“But now she saw him for what he was: a troubled man, fighting his own demons, trying to do right by his child.”
― Robyn Harding, The Arrangement

“Sometimes, we do things we don’t feel good about to survive. It doesn’t mean you’re a bad person.”
― Robyn Harding, The Arrangement

“Desperate people will commit desperate acts. When my restaurant was failing, my life’s dream crumbling before my eyes, I lied, I cheated, and I manipulated. I destroyed people, hurt the ones I loved. So, could I stab someone to save my own life? Of course.”
― Robyn Harding, The Drowning Woman

“I know what he wants; he doesn’t have to elaborate. And for the first time, I see how easily it happens. If a person is desperate, if they have nothing else of value, they can always sell themselves. There is always someone willing to pay.”
― Robyn Harding, The Drowning Woman

“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”
― Robyn Harding, The Drowning Woman

“the fundamental attribution error. Basically, it means that when people see someone in a bad situation, they tend to believe that individual brought it on themselves. Of course, there are always external, situational forces at play, but it’s human nature to think it could never happen to you.”
― Robyn Harding, The Drowning Woman

“Стільки таємниць! Стільки брехні! І стільки злості! Як могла наша родина так спаскудитись?”
― Robyn Harding, The Perfect Family

“In sociological terms, they call it the fundamental attribution error. Basically, it means that when people see someone in a bad situation, they tend to believe that individual brought it on themselves. Of course, there are always external, situational forces at play, but it’s human nature to think it could never happen to you.”
― Robyn Harding, The Drowning Woman

“She was nuts, but she was never boring.” She set down a scalpel-like trimming. “And boring is the worst thing you can be.”
― Robyn Harding, The Swap

“Sending a disparaging email directly to a writer seems so extreme, so unnecessarily mean. Who does that?”
― Robyn Harding, The Haters

“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.”
― Robyn Harding, The Drowning Woman

“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.”
― Robyn Harding, The Drowning Woman

“I was just about to get up when I heard the egg hit the front window.”
― Robyn Harding, The Perfect Family

“What?” I ask, filling a glass with Coke from the fountain.”
― Robyn Harding, The Drowning Woman

“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?”
― Robyn Harding, The Perfect Family