Quote by Edward St Aubyn

“After all, she herself had done the very worst thing imaginable. And she was a good person. Wasn’t she?”

— Chris Pavone

“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

“I might have asked, figured her out, led her to open up. I was good at that. But I didn't inquire, a punishment. I…

— Susanna Sonnenberg

“Dat had always told her that whenever you got angry at another person, it was an opportunity to take a glimpse of your own…

— Tricia Goyer

“Her dullness made her own punishment.”

— Daphne du Maurier

“It wasn’t fair what happened to you, either. Or what happened to her. A lot of things aren’t. I guess we can either be…

— Ava Dellaira

“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

“She had the best kind of courage, or maybe the worst kind, the kind that gets you into trouble.”

— Alistair MacLean

“She was doing that thing where she took out her frustrations about something else in her life on the closest victim.”

— Emily Bleeker

“I think much of her - I mean my mother - and of how alike we were, and how we were both destroyed by…

— Michael Cox

“No one else in the world would put up with this girl. “You are awful,” I said, and even then I was forgiving her.”

— Brittany Cavallaro

“I began to think I quite liked her really. It's always so nice to meet someone more badly behaved than oneself.”

— Helen Fielding