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“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

“She was ghastly and quite mad, but when I grew up I figured her worst punishment was to be herself and I didn't have…

— Edward St Aubyn

“Don't punish yourself,' she heard her say again, but there would be punishment and pain, and there would be happiness, too. That was writing.”

— Markus Zusak

“Everything inside me screams that she’s mine—mine to fuck, mine to punish in any way I choose. Nobody else will lay hands on her…

— Anna Zaires

“Sometimes the true punishment for miscreants and wrongdoers is having to be the person that they are.”

— Jim Lyon

“Whereever we get punishment, know that it is our own fault only. How would we be punished otherwise?”

— Dada Bhagwan

“Her dullness made her own punishment.”

— Daphne du Maurier

“Such people are their own punishment.”

— Charles Palliser

“Two wrongs don't make a right, but neither does one. Revenge may seem petty by day, but on some nights she becomes Justice.”

— Ashly Lorenzana

“She can have all the time in the world. And I will forgive myself for the mistakes I've made. For the times I got…

— Steven Rowley

“…In the very simplicity of her desire to punish herself appeared egoism in its purest form. Never before had this woman who seemed to…

— Yukio Mishima

“I deserve no punishment at all for being who I am.”

— Jerzy Kosiński