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“She found it curious and frightening that she could deeply dislike someone she didn’t even know. It wasn’t her. At least, it wasn’t how…

— Veronica Rossi

“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

“But the burden of appearing to be fine, so as to keep others from worrying about her, was almost worse than simply allowing herself…

— Gwen Cooper

“She could shut out the whole world, including herself.”

— Alice Sebold

“How could she have a kind view of the world when the people who are supposed to love her the most, treat her so…

— Deb Hanrahan

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

— Elizabeth Bowen

“She could feel herself hurtling toward self-awareness, and she wasn’t sure she liked it.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“She hated herself more than she could express.”

— Jane Austen

“She discovered that the most comfortable position in society was slightly off to the side...”

— Soledad Puertolas

“I had confessed fully-with all the misguided passion of one who believes that she is cleansing herself and forgets that she may be staining…

— Robin Black

“... She might have thought that it was the case, that all things worked out in the end, and that the world was a…

— Emma Straub

“The one thing she had learned was that to be tolerated and endured was less dignified than being hated. And it was infinitely more…

— Robyn Carr