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Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny QUOTES

Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny QUOTES

1 " It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then. "

― Holly Madison , Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny

2 " But let that not be the moral of my story. True happiness doesn't come from simply getting married. I don't believe a woman's worth should be measured by whether or not she's married. "

― Holly Madison , Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny

3 " Marriage and family are certainly beautiful parts of life, but I believe those things can truly be appreciated only when we find, love, and respect ourselves first. "

― Holly Madison , Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny

4 " In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again. "

― Holly Madison , Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny

5 " She’s my prisoner, you know!” the Red Knight said at last.… “I don’t know,” Alice said doubtfully. “I don’t want to be anyone’s prisoner. I want to be a Queen.” —Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass "

― Holly Madison , Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny

6 " I won't apologize for the choices I made, because all of them brought me to the wonderful place I am today. "

― Holly Madison , Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny

7 " sometimes you try so hard to fit in that you almost forget it’s all an act. "

― Holly Madison , Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny

8 " Maybe I wasn’t defined by the mistakes I had made after all . . . maybe those decisions were what allowed me to become the person I was always destined to be. "

― Holly Madison , Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny

9 " I always thought it would be classy to not kiss and tell . . . but after a while you just get sick of having other people trying to tell your story for you. "

― Holly Madison , Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny

10 " In a few short months, I had gone from a friendly, optimistic, confident woman to a confused girl with a nervous stammer who second-guessed every thought that went through her head and rationalized every bad decision she made. "

― Holly Madison , Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny

11 " Like Beauty locked up in the Beast’s castle, I developed my own brand of Stockholm syndrome, identifying with my captor. "

― Holly Madison , Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny

12 " I tried to play off my outburst as having been touched by the romantic moment (and I think most people bought it!), but in reality I was crying because of what a farce this whole thing was and how stretched thin my nerves were at that moment. Hef reading off the flowing words of love from the card reminded me again what a joke this whole situation was and made me feel like I had missed out on my chance to ever have anything real with someone; to ever meet a man who really deserved a card like that. I had sold my soul to the devil and felt that there was no way out. "

― Holly Madison , Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny

13 " This old man had just humiliated me - and I sat there taking his ridicule like a child. I curled up on the vanity stool and sobbed for what felt like forever, in the one little corner of this whole giant mansion that was supposed to be my own. "

― Holly Madison , Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny

14 " When I received my glossy black invitation in the mail a few days later, I could feel my heart swell with excitement. “Hef’s Midsummer Night’s Dream Party,” it read. On the front was a beautiful pinup illustration by famed artist Olivia De Berardinis and inside was a small piece of paper with directions. It was like Cinderella finally scoring an invitation to the ball—except instead of arriving by horse-drawn carriage, we would board a shuttle at a UCLA parking garage. "

― Holly Madison , Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny

15 " That's one of the things about Hef: when it came to humiliating his girlfriends, the larger the audience, the better. "

― Holly Madison , Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny

16 " Like a toddler throwing a temper tantrum, she guzzled down the vodka in hopes that Hef would feel that urge to rescue her or care for her. "

― Holly Madison , Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny

17 " Maybe I wasn't defined by the mistakes I had made after all...maybe those decisions were what allowed me to become the person I was always destined to be. "

― Holly Madison , Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny

18 " While there was a part of me that acknowledged the idiocy and superficiality that surrounded me, I fell for the glamour: hook, line, and sinker. It took years for me to realize just how manipulated and used I had been. I could never admit that to myself at the time, because to do so would have been to acknowledge how dark and scary a situation I was in . . . and how very little in control I was. "

― Holly Madison , Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny

19 " Hef holds the Guinness Book of World Records title for largest scrapbook collection at over 2,000 volumes. "

― Holly Madison , Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny

20 " As an LA transplant the concept of being fake was still a bit lost on me. Don’t get me wrong. I was familiar with fake tans, fake nails and of course fake boobs having already undergone my breast enhancement surgery but I didn’t have any idea how insincere and calculated people can be. It never dawned on me that the girls I was about to be spending a lot of time with had ulterior motives beyond simply being friendly and that all of their encouragement was just for show. As I’d come to learn, they saw me as a useful pawn in their twisted game of Playboy chess. "

― Holly Madison , Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny