Never Saw Me Coming Quotes

“if you existed as a woman in the world and were anything but polite you were rude, uppity, a bitch, stuck-up, a cunt, the list went on.”
― Vera Kurian, Never Saw Me Coming

“They tell you to get a guy friend to walk you home, not realizing that guy friends can rape you. Take a cab! But the cab driver can rape you. Take an uber, but they're even more rapey. Take the metro -- rapists ride free.
What if everyone was like me, I wondered, and hunted down their respective Will's? Would the economy collapse?”
― Vera Kurian, Never Saw Me Coming

“In real life, we don't get to edit out the painful parts.”
― Vera Kurian, Never Saw Me Coming

“If you meet some standard of objective attractiveness, people think you’re better than you actually are—smarter, more interesting, worthier of existing”
― Vera Kurian, Never Saw Me Coming

“the thing—you had to be polite sometimes when what you really wanted to be was curt. Because if you existed as a woman in the world and were anything but polite you were rude, uppity, a bitch, stuck-up, a cunt, the list went on. Lately her ability to be endlessly patient was wearing thin.”
― Vera Kurian, Never Saw Me Coming

“They were the charming white couple who claimed their car broke down in front of your house in a home invasion movie. Of course you let them in, because surely they weren’t dangerous …”
― Vera Kurian, Never Saw Me Coming

“They tell you to get a guy friend to walk you home, not realizing that guy friends can rape you. Take a cab—but the cabdriver could rape you!”
― Vera Kurian, Never Saw Me Coming

“That was the thing—you had to be polite sometimes when what you really wanted to be was curt. Because if you existed as a woman in the world and were anything but polite you were rude, uppity, a bitch, stuck-up, a cunt, the list went on. Lately her ability to be endlessly patient was wearing thin.”
― Vera Kurian, Never Saw Me Coming

“People love psychology because people are narcissistic. And as a psychopath I’m particularly narcissistic.”
― Vera Kurian, Never Saw Me Coming

“When I say this person makes me uncomfortable, can you just take me seriously? I said it because I meant it!”
― Vera Kurian, Never Saw Me Coming

“I had been hoping to run into the perfect RA to run a circle around, but a lot of them were super organized Elena types. Girls, specifically. And one thing I will tell you about girls - they don't think with their penises.”
― Vera Kurian, Never Saw Me Coming

“I looked at him beseechingly, with big eyes. You can argue with men but it's far more powerful to appeal to their most basic instincts. Latch on to that part of their Y chromosome that likes explaining things to women, the part of them that likes to help because it makes them feel bigger.”
― Vera Kurian, Never Saw Me Coming

“He smiled at him like he was going to sell him a sub-prime mortgage”
― Vera Kurian, Never Saw Me Coming

“She snorted. "If someone is actually capable of hunting and killing me, they deserve a genius award. I can look out for myself." The look on her face became crafty. "And if you're nice to me, I'll look out for you, too.”
― Vera Kurian, Never Saw Me Coming

“If this takes a hundred years, I will not let Will win.”
― Vera Kurian, Never Saw Me Coming

“I would heal - I always did.”
― Vera Kurian, Never Saw Me Coming

“the question wouldn’t be “What happened to Michelle?” but “Why didn’t you …?” Instead,”
― Vera Kurian, Never Saw Me Coming

“You have to ask in just the right way. And when you strike just the right tone, you always get what you want.”
― Vera Kurian, Never Saw Me Coming

“She went to the police, but she couldn't pinpoint who was doing it - neither could I. They said, 'If someone's harassing you online, why don't you get offline? What did you ever take a nude picture of yourself for?' The police both didn't have the know-how and didn't care.”
― Vera Kurian, Never Saw Me Coming

“I could be whatever they wanted me to be. A fun girl, a potential best friend, someone to tell secrets to over midnight snacks. This type of socializing was just me playing little roles for a few moments, but when I need to go all in, I can.”
― Vera Kurian, Never Saw Me Coming

“They laughed, a little bitterly, the helpless way people had been in the past few years of school shootings and politicians screaming at each other.”
― Vera Kurian, Never Saw Me Coming

“My only consolation was that once I was done with Will, I could throw myself body and soul into what college is supposed to be: romantic intrigue, baiting girls into stupid fights for fun, having affairs with professors.”
― Vera Kurian, Never Saw Me Coming

“does something wrong, you don’t take their life or remove them from society, but that person is required to repair the harm they’ve done.”
― Vera Kurian, Never Saw Me Coming