Life Quote by Alexander McCall Smith

“She knew that people generally behaved only as well as they had to.”

— Daisy Goodwin

“Then she had understood how it was possible for a man to do nothing wrong, and still to be wrong, day after day.”

— Laura Brodie

“Every time she felt her life could not grow stranger, something happened to make her think she had been wrong.”

— Amy Sohn

“But experience had taught her that such arguments failed. You cannot tell people to take into account what they do not wish to know.…

— Anne Perry

“She thought that things could not get worse . . . but they always can, and often do.”

— Stephen King

“He brought a sense of rightness. She felt it every moment she spent with him. Even the wrong ones. Even the painful ones, like…

— Veronica Rossi

“One day it occurred to her that if she was going to go through life feeling as if she'd done something wrong, she might…

— Douglas Watson

“She had learned that when people were bent on doing something they believed was a good deed, it was usually impossible to dissuade them.”

— Celeste Ng

“She enjoyed being right, but as such people go, rarely was.”

— Vaishnavi Nair K

“That she lived a lie. That she wasn't the good girl everyone believed her to be, wanted her to be.”

— Lacey Alexander

“I do not know where the error lies. I do not pretend to set people right, but I do see they are often wrong.”

— Jane Austen

“But then, people always loathe those they have wronged.”

— Sebastian Horsley