Benefit of the doubt Quote by Alexander McCall Smith

“Her name was Her, but what was hers? His name was His, and he presumed everything was his, including her, and he thought he…

— Rebecca Solnit

“Her husband and her children did not consider her beyond criticism. She belonged to them; whatever she did affected them; their pride, their good…

— Elisabeth Sanxay Holding

“And because they’d doubted her, it had been so easy for her to doubt herself. She”

— Jennifer Jaynes

“The easy thing to do was give her the ben­efit of the doubt.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“And even later, when for the first time in her life she had lain in bed with a man and said his name involuntarily…

— Toni Morrison

“In fact, the only people he let anywhere near him were his family and her. She wasn’t quite certain she wanted to dissect the…

— Kathryn Smith

“And he would never have instructed her to tell his past self such a story and expected himself to believe it.”

— Karen Marie Moning

“If anything defeated her, it would be her own mind and self-doubt.”

— Cat Johnson

“Had she any respect for him at all, his words would've affected her. But no value accompanies comments spewed from the mouth of a…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“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

“Her present, her future—everything—depended on his words and whether she chose to believe them.”

— Jacquelyn Middleton

“Something about him called to her, like one of her wounded beasts, and she could not turn him away. She needed his name and…

— Tracy Anne Warren