Horrible Quote by Alice Sebold

“I didn't want to be a part of anything special. Bad things happened to special people. Usually failure followed by an early death”

— Mindee Arnett

“It was weird what was enough to make you feel good or bad, even though your basic life circumstances were the same.”

— Elif Batuman

“I needed him to be cruel. It was easier to be disgusted by him.”

— Nashoda Rose

“I don't think, before that moment, that he truly grasped the nature of what I was. He knew, of course; had always known, and…

— Jacqueline Carey

“He was entirely rid of his nervous misgivings, of his forced aggressiveness, of the imperative desire to show himself different from his surroundings. He…

— Willa Cather

“He had meant them to be good, but his cares had been directed to the understanding and manners, not the disposition; and of the…

— Jane Austen

“It torments you to know you were misunderstood, to not have risked yourself, and to wait.”

— Elena Poniatowska

“He made me uncomfortable. He made it hard for me to be cruel too. And I needed to be cruel. To be left alone,…

— Amy Harmon

“He wished he could communicate what he knew to this frightened boy. But that never did any good anyway. People learned by what they…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“I had to assume the worst about people because I knew firsthand what horrible things they were capable of.”

— Jessica Cutler

“He longed for company. He was cruel because he didn't know whether or not people felt pain and he wanted to find out and…

— Michèle Roberts

Early on, he'd learned to enjoy simple things, things that couldn't be bought, and he had a hard time understanding people who felt otherwise.

— Nicholas Sparks