Quote by Augusten Burroughs

“... in short, I should have liked, I do confess, to have had the lightest license of a child, and yet to have been…

— Charles Dickens

“He showed it to me with all the confiding zest of a man who has been living too much alone. This seclusion was overflowing…

— H.G. Wells

“For the most part, I did trust my own judgement. But I was more than capable of screwing up. Just, sometimes, I forgot about…

— Gwenda Bond

“To his surprise he...discovered that it was possible to be good at what you had little interest in, just as it had been possible…

— Richard Russo

“Failing honestly and with integrity was something I could accept—but only if I was sure that my efforts to succeed had been worthy of…

— Shimon Peres

“I was afraid that if I did anything at all without bartering for at least some small thing in return, he might think I…

— Margaux Fragoso

“He was actually interested in things I had to say, something I'd never experienced before and made me feel extraordinarily special.”

— Fisher Amelie

“He was right. I knew the score. He’d never pretended it was other than it was--whatever the hell that was. I’d never kidded myself…

— Josh Lanyon

“I wanted to trust him with the best of me, the worst of me, and everything in between.”

— R.K. Lilley

“And, just like that, he had thrown at me his own little test. If I was going to toy with him and challenge his…

— Khaled Hosseini

“Something happened to you, they discovered, when you were given the unconditional love and trust of a child. You wanted to try to deserve…

— Lisa Kleypas

“I knew it would be all of those things and so much more to me, but it was his heart I was yanking from…

— Rachael Wade