Classics Quote by Edith Wharton

“I didn’t feel that I had any good qualities. Or rather, none were good enough. Nothing I did or said was good enough, but…

— Victoria Leatham

“People expected certain things of me: assistance, silence, comfort. They had no idea who I was.”

— Alice Hoffman

“Sometimes, good intentions couldn't do a thing except make you feel less alone, and sometimes that was enough.”

— Riley Redgate

“You were just a caretaker. They didn't have to feel what you felt; they just had to be supported in feeling what they felt.”

— George Saunders

“I saw how pure, in a way, they were – no matter what they had done. Each in their own way they had tried…

— Peter Høeg

“Maybe, because all these good people loved me enough to help me, maybe I wasn't quite as bad as I felt. Maybe there was…

— Piper Kerman

“I sat quiet, silent, angry, refusing to grieve, because it seemed like to do so would be giving everyone what the wanted.”

— Sarah Dessen

“sometimes its good to be a stranger for the person who never gave importance to you.. and never even tried to understand you..”

— KATYAYANI KUMARI

“I wanted only to try to live in obedience to the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?”

— Hermann Hesse

“But trust me, that feeling is nothing compared to the one you get when you actually help someone who didn't think that anyone ever…

— Jessica Brody

“Sometimes you needed to be an outsider to really appreciate how things worked. Otherwise you took it for granted.”

— Nathan Lowell

“I couldn’t tell anyone how I felt. I had learned not to feel, or at least not to tell anyone about my feelings. It…

— John E. Monaco