Crime Quote by Daphne du Maurier

“Her punishment was to be made to feel like a fool. She had been given her opportunity to participate in civilization, and she had…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“She was ghastly and quite mad, but when I grew up I figured her worst punishment was to be herself and I didn't have…

— Edward St Aubyn

“She gave her a reason to write her own words, to see that words had also brought her to life. "Don't punish yourself," she…

— Markus Zusak

“Don't punish yourself,' she heard her say again, but there would be punishment and pain, and there would be happiness, too. That was writing.”

— Markus Zusak

“…In the very simplicity of her desire to punish herself appeared egoism in its purest form. Never before had this woman who seemed to…

— Yukio Mishima

“It is as if she is punishing everyone who has ever done her wrong through her punishment of me.”

— Lake Union Publishing

“It made me realize how I needed to stop punishing her for something she couldn't help [...] because sometimes things happen to people and…

— Suzanne Collins

“She did not yet know the immense ability of the world to be casually cruel and proudly dull,”

— Sinclair Lewis

“It is ugly to be punishable, but there is no glory in punishing.”

— Michael Foucault

“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

“and suddenly she tired of behaving as she ought.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

“She had to make her own marvelous mistakes.”

— Paul Scott