Quote by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Ophelia had never been prophesied before. It made her feel annoyed.”

— Karen Foxlee

“Humility and shame have been confused. Humility is knowing that you know nothing for sure and shame is someone having to tell you.”

— Erica Goros

“She is embarrassed to be alive and no one on earth can fully console her.”

— William Trevor

“She knew a cutting, incisive, withering and above all a self-evident answer existed. It was just that, to her extreme annoyance, she couldn't quite…

— Terry Pratchett

“Lying to Aedion about the blood oath was … awful. She would tell him—she would find a way to tell him. When things were…

— Sarah J. Maas

“But in her current mood, small affronts were bundled with larger disappointments and became a body of evidence.”

— Katherine Boo

“For reasons I can only guess, my mother always instructed me that it was impolite to tell the truth...Whatever she lacked in versimilitude, she…

— Phillip DePoy

“It hardly felt real that she was gone, though the heavy pain Agata had carried for weeks reminded her, sitting like too many sweets…

— Jennifer Wizbowski

“She fought the urge to look away, to hide her own eyes. Struggled against the long-ingrained habit of disguising her own lies, now that…

— Chris Pavone

“He had said she was provocative; so she was, she needed to prove she was there to be seen; but the proof always, contradictorily,…

— A.S. Byatt

“After a long, long time she reached an important conclusion. She was never going to stand by and say nothing again.”

— Eleanor Estes

“This was because she knew few words and believed in none, and in the world she was rather silent, contributing just her share of…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald