Blamed Quote by Gaiutra Bahadur

“To know of the existence of evil, true evil that corrupted the world, had forever altered her heart and mind. If she had chosen…

— Andrea Cremer

“Even then, only a child, she knew she had to pretend to be someone else -- for her parents, for their customers, for everyone…

— Leslie Parry

“She was the kind of woman who made a sport of finding fault with other people; her favorite target being me. I wasn’t good…

— Clara James

“She must face the forest of her mother’s past in order to save herself and the one she loves.”

— Carrie Ryan

“...he was so horribly unhuman, that one shuddered to think that tender women and fair children must, of necessity, confess to fellowship of kind…

— Marcus Clarke

“Was that what they called the natural lot of women? to suffer, perhaps to share the blame, but have no share in the plan,…

— Margaret Oliphant

“Once there was a certain lady . . . And she had no children, and generally no happiness either. And so first she cried…

— Mikhail Bulgakov

“People, her people at least, were always chasing shattered hopes. A father gazing down on dead soil, with a brood of hollow-cheeked children sitting…

— A Cruel Harvest

“Somehow she’d ended up in bed with the man mothers warn their daughters to stay away from. The kind of man fathers go after…

— Tessa Bailey

“It was the forest’s fault. Those two handsome woodcutters. An evil place, the forest, everyone knew it, full of temptations and imps...”

— Tanith Lee

“Women, they were tricky business. A man had to step carefully lest he find himself in a pit of despair, longing after the one…

— T.A. Grey

“Perhaps the old lady had kidnapped Michela, had found her in the park and taken her away, because she had a violent desire for…

— Paolo Giordano