Character Quote by Jeffrey Eugenides

“They behave towards their therapists as they perceive themselves to have been treated by their absent parents. They make their therapists feel very fully…

— Ved P. Varma

As a child, he had hardened his heart and learned to take their punches. He had learned to spit back and take down anyone…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

At school he had done things which had formerly seemed to him very horrid and made him feel disgusted with himself when he did…

— Leo Tolstoy

He hated it when adults told him he only felt the way he did because he was young. As if being young was like…

— Cory Doctorow

He was resentful against all those in authority over him, and this, combined with a lazy indifference toward his work, exasperated every master in…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“He was entirely rid of his nervous misgivings, of his forced aggressiveness, of the imperative desire to show himself different from his surroundings. He…

— Willa Cather

“In addition to anxiety and irritability, other symptoms include an irrational belief that he can alter reality; a clear tendency to act in a…

— Basma Abdel Aziz

“A child can only experience his feelings when there is someone there who fully accepts them, names them and supports them. Another consequence of…

— John Bradshaw

The sense that in his mother's view, he had let down his family just by being who he was... was a failure of acceptance…

— J.R. Ward

We live in a historical period characterized by a sharp discrepancy between the intellectual development of man... and his mental-emotional development, which has left…

— Christopher Lasch

All day long he was docile, intelligent, good, Though sometimes changing to a darker mood. He seemed hypocritical, could tell better lies, in the…

— Arthur Rimbaud

He had some measure of the infuriating trait that causes a young man to be a nonconformist for its own sake and found that…

— Neal Stephenson