Rachael Allen > Quotes

“The Cyrus-Swift Phenomenon. Taylor Swift has had, like, eighteen boyfriends, but everyone still thinks she’s really classy because she’s just so poised and sweet and appropriate-looking. Meanwhile, Miley Cyrus was with the same guy for practically forever, and people are always calling her a slut. And I’m not saying we should be calling T. Swift a slut instead—even if you do date a lot of guys, you don’t deserve that. What I’m saying is, when it comes to popular opinion, it’s all about the persona.”
― Rachael Allen, The Revenge Playbook

“Sometimes you think someone is holding your hand when really they’re holding you back.”
― Rachael Allen, The Revenge Playbook

“But I want more. I want football players to be treated like everybody else, and for the guys at this school to realize that rape culture isn’t something feminists invented so they could have something new to be pissed about, and so many other things I don’t even have words for yet. And most of all, I want to make sure no other girls ever have to go through what any of us had to go through.”
― Rachael Allen, The Revenge Playbook

“Why can I fight everyone’s monsters except mine?”
― Rachael Allen, Harley Quinn: Reckoning

“If telling someone you love them is a gift, then revoking that love is like cutting the tightrope out from under them. That's when the real falling begins.”
― Rachael Allen, A Taxonomy of Love

“Rock-star sweat is like pixie dust - it makes magical things happen.”
― Rachael Allen, 17 First Kisses

“Look, choosing to wait until marriage makes me feel empowered. But if the same choice cripples you, then it wasn't the right one.”
― Rachael Allen, The Revenge Playbook

“When you've earned something, I mean really earned it, no one can make you doubt that you deserve it. They can't say it isn't yours. There's something about getting a thing that you've bled and fought for that makes the getting that much sweeter.”
― Rachael Allen

“am so sick of it. All of it. I’m sick of my dad and his it’s-your-fault-for-wearing-a-skirt-that’s-too-short BS. I’m sick of people acting like I’m crazy. Anytime a woman gets mad or sad or emotional, boom, let’s put a big stamp on that feeling that says it isn’t valid. That it’s maybe even pathological. You know as many as 70 percent of women got diagnosed as hysterical by certain doctors back in the day? But what if none of them were Crazy Bitches? What if they were just tired? Tired of pretending everything was okay when it wasn’t, and living in a world that was designed to be against them, and being told to smile through the knife wounds. Maybe pretending to be okay in the middle of a tornado is the truly crazy thing.”
― Rachael Allen, Harley Quinn: Reckoning

“He's the kind of guy who might not have an expiration date. Who I could fall for so completely that I might as well put my heart in a blender right now because it would hurt less. Who I could want with the kind of passion that makes you forget important things like the promises you make to yourself.”
― Rachael Allen

“Sometimes people are more than friends. They become your family. They help you understand that life doesn’t have to be the thing that you thought. They pull back the curtain on a world you didn’t know existed. They make you reach for the impossible. Maybe that’s all of our mission in life. To find the people who can show you there’s another way of living.”
― Rachael Allen, The Summer of Impossibilities

“Because that’s a thing men like him do. They think the fact that you’re intelligent or tough or funny or badass makes them small. They don’t know they’re small to begin with.”
― Rachael Allen, Harley Quinn: Reckoning

“I’m tempted to make a U-turn and sit down. But I won’t let myself cower. I am brave. I am strong. I fearlessly sprinkle glitter on statues and perform the worm in front of hundreds of people. I can stand up to my teacher.”
― Rachael Allen

“Sometimes fighting for all the women who come after you is the most powerful way to heal.”
― Rachael Allen, Harley Quinn: Reckoning

“We have to work ten times harder to get things that seem to be handed to other people. But that's okay because I think it gives us a secret strength that the people who coast through life will never know.”
― Rachael Allen