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In Fight Club (1999), Narrator looks down the barrel of a gun that's been stuck in his mouth. The gun is held by a man named Tyler:
Narrator: For a second, I forget about Tyler's controlled demolition thing and I wonder how clean that gun is.
Tyler: It's getting exciting now.
Narrator: That old saying, how you always hurt the one you love, well, it works both ways.
What "both ways" is Narrator referring to?
There are two readings I can see:
It's hard to tell from the context posted which is meant, but I suspect from my hazy memory of the novel that the second is more likely.
