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“Was it worth saying that she was no longer going to do anything for anyone since it seemed to her that the more generous…

— Joanna Trollope

“She had lost her compassion for people and a thick crust of indifference had formed around her feelings - that disgust that afflicts the…

— Alaa Al Aswany

“She knew the power of bureaucracy well enough to be aware she had to sit and be admonished until this stranger felt she had…

— Thomm Quackenbush

“Anyone who deprived her of something she wanted deserved what he got.”

— Jim Thompson

“She had learned that when people were bent on doing something they believed was a good deed, it was usually impossible to dissuade them.”

— Celeste Ng

“It was almost reckless how vulnerable she allowed herself to be; you couldn't help but hate her for doing that to herself, and at…

— Charles Yu

“She deserved someone who could see what she had to give and would lover her for it. Who wouldn't turn away from her every…

— Monica McCarty

“It made me realize how I needed to stop punishing her for something she couldn't help [...] because sometimes things happen to people and…

— Suzanne Collins

“Death had to take her little by little, bit by bit, dragging her along to the bitter end of the miserable existence she'd made…

— Émile Zola

“She was not willing to let others narrate her life and her death. While there is one person like her in this world, I…

— Ariel Dorfman

“It had not seemed difficult, on a small income, to know what was right to do…Now, with so much, it was daily a decision:…

— Laura Kinsale

“She hated to admit that money was the most serious difficulty. Knowing full well that it was important, she nevertheless rebelled at the unalterable…

— Nella Larsen