Confused Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Passion. She’d dared him to discover the emotion but had been unprepared to discover it herself.”

— Sarah MacLean

“She was perhaps too young to realize that what she assumed was her love for [him] was actually a tentative, timorous, acceptance of herself.”

— Arundhati Roy

“She could feel herself hurtling toward self-awareness, and she wasn’t sure she liked it.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“He had a certain almost obsequious charm. He liked talking about himself, and did not ask many questions of her. She noticed the imbalance…

— Lydia Davis

“She was his beacon to what others called decency, not because she told him how to act but because she made him want to…

— Thea Harrison

“He never wanted to see that look of disppointment in her eyes again, yet he couldn't allow himself to be crushed under his own…

— Frank Lee Raw Honey

“But you won't say no." She hated that his confidence was not misplaced, hated that she could refuse him nothing when he held her…

— Julia Quinn

“She had effaced herself, when he first knew her; she had made herself small, pretending there was less of her than there really was.…

— Henry James

“She always, She always wanted to express herself but no one cared, So she stopped, She was crushed, Stiff & lifeless, Like everything else.”

— Truth Devour

“He smiled too, but did not hold her gaze. She watched as he put a few more pieces of wood on the fire, and…

— Sean J. Quirk

“She hated herself more than she could express.”

— Jane Austen

“despite his single-minded determination, he forced himself to give her one last opportunity to escape what he could no longer control himself.”

— Johanna Lindsey