Good enough Quote by Claire Messud

“It all came down to entitlement, and one's sense of it. Marina, feeling entitled, never really asked herself if she was good enough. Whereas…

— Claire Messud

“She'd always perceived the world to be against her. Happiness was never to be trusted. And yet I thought vaguely, neither was sorrow. Didn't…

— Regina O'Melveny

“I continued to wonder what exactly I had done to deserve a woman like Valerie. Nothing, probably. I observe the world as it unfurls,…

— Michel Houellebecq

“Her expression almost never changed. Made it hard to tell what she was thinking. But also made her seem separate from the rest of…

— Yukari Yashiki

“Was it worth saying that she was no longer going to do anything for anyone since it seemed to her that the more generous…

— Joanna Trollope

“All he asked of her was basic civility and an ounce of propriety, but she was like one of her sea creatures, goaded by…

— Anonymous

“What she craved and really felt herself entitled to was a situation in which the noblest attitude should also be the easiest.”

— Edith Wharton

“At what point in her life had she decided she didn’t deserve better than this? It was a startling discovery. The blinders had come…

— Maya Banks

“Sometimes, she told herself, life was a series of obstacles that just had to be negotiated, possibly through sheer act of will. She stared…

— Jojo Moyes

“It would require careful planning and execution, but Marina always accomplished everything to which she put her mind. She made a lot of spreadsheets.”

— Cristina Alger

“Mariam knew that life for the most part had been unkind to her. But as she walked the final twenty paces, she could not…

— Khaled Hosseini

“... She is awesomely competent without being smug. She is determined without being bossy, morally certain without being judgmental. She likes herself but is…

— Dean Koontz