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“On her worst days, she feared she was actually less. And that truth had defined the rest of her life.”

— Susan Mallery

“It had been so long since she’d given herself permission to just feel without thinking, to act without discussing the consequences. And yeah, there…

— Leah Braemel

“After all, she herself had done the very worst thing imaginable. And she was a good person. Wasn’t she?”

— Chris Pavone

“She was too dependent on what other people thought of her, and that was her downfall. She cared too much. She was only what…

— Steph Bowe

“She posed as being more indolent than she felt, for fear of finding herself less able than she could wish.”

— Elizabeth Bowen

“She had to be made to understand that she can’t go mouthing off about people and not expect consequences from it.”

— Chrissy Moon

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

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“The only thing that counted to her was her own opinion of herself. If that became smirched or spoiled there would be nothing left.…

— Josephine Tey

“She seemed almost to have a perverse impulse to make anyone who cared about her regret it, to find the thing that would most…

— Joe Hill

“It just did not make sense; unless, of course, as she had suggested, we all have a weak point, an area of intellectual or…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“He told himself she wasn’t really such a bad person, she was just a pest, she was sticky, there was something misplaced in her…

— David Goodis

“so at least she could feel less singled out, less repulsed by herself, less like a spot on the world that should have been…

— Krista Ritchie