Arbitrary Quote by Francoise Sagan

He lacked tenderness; he was rude; and he had more than a streak of cruelty in him; he was a thief and a liar.…

— Daphne du Maurier

...he was conscious of the disastrous fact that love and desire must be expressed in the same way...

— Albert Camus

What he'd never understood about men in his position, in all the books he'd read and movies he'd seen about them, was clearer to…

— Jonathan Franzen

The truth now.He was disappointed in human beings.He had seen too many betrayals,too many pitiful weaknesses,too much greed for money and fame.The falseness between…

— Mario Puzo

He thought about his people without sentimentality, with a strict closing of his accounts with life, beginning to understand how much he really loved…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“He wanted and needed their love, but felt none towards them. He now had neither love nor humility nor purity”

— Leo Tolstoy

He did not consider if or how or why he loved them. They were just love: they were the first evidence he ever had…

— Zadie Smith

He did not care upon what terms he satisfied his passion. He had even a mad, melodramatic idea to drug her.

— Anonymous

“His nature was not a suspicious one, and he did not take pleasure, as some men did, in believing himself to have been betrayed.”

— Eleanor Catton

He despised causeless affection, just as he despised unearned wealth. They professed to love him for some unknown reason and they ignored all the…

— Ayn Rand

They were satisfied with their lives which had none of the vibrance his own was taking on. And he was angry at himself, that…

— Lois Lowry

He was in love, and people in that condition did stupid, unfathomable things. They were all flawed, every single one.

— Alice Hoffman