Quote by Elizabeth Peters

“Reasonable behavior was the last thing you wanted. You felt as if the resolution of human problems demanded passion and brute unreason, some spitting…

— William Boyd

“There would be a sweet release of strength and responsibility, a sinking into another’s power, no need to feign her own. This”

— Hugh Howey

“She resolved conflicts by either agreeing or quietly going about her business and doing things her way. Conflict was too hard to live with,…

— Deanna Lynn Sletten

“She had some kind of foolish and unreasonable notion that the more doggedly she stood, the more would she placate certain mysterious powers which…

— Cora Sandel

“The girl knew that quarrels would come because their lives were intertwined - how passionately one defends a heart that is vulnerable.”

— Martine Leavitt

“But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“There is nothing that so satisfactorily unites individuals who have been so unfortunate as to quarrel amongst themselves as a strong mutual dislike for…

— P.G.Wodehouse

“She could not be made rude and malicious by the rudeness and malice of those about her.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“He had never once crossed the borders of friendliness with her and, when she thought of this, fresh anger rose, the anger of hurt…

— Margaret Mitchell

“She did not hate Clent for the way he had spoken. For most of her life she had been at the mercy of stronger…

— Frances Hardinge

“Some far day when she had become a better person and could feel something besides stinging anger that her beautiful, gentle sister had not…

— Charles Frazier

“And if I wasn't able to bar anger, or her insidious cousin, irritation, From my heart, at least some of the time I bit…

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni