Firsts Quote by Lauren DeStefano

He was wicked. It was better that he was out of my life. I knew that, logically. What I felt, though, deep, deep down…

— Me

I remember, in hot floods, the way he slept, still as death, with his face washed flat, stony as a carved tomb and exquisite.…

— Katherine Dunn

In 'Huckleberry Finn,' I have drawn Tom Blankenship exactly as he was. He was ignorant, unwashed, insufficiently fed; but he had as good a…

— Mark Twain

He was a vicious hurtful snob, I must confess. I literally despised him in the best kind of a way.

— Sara Bokhari

I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there…

— Anonymous

The truth now.He was disappointed in human beings.He had seen too many betrayals,too many pitiful weaknesses,too much greed for money and fame.The falseness between…

— Mario Puzo

“Was he a bad man or just a foolish one? He didn't feel bad to himself. As a husband he believed himself to be…

— Howard Jacobson

“Surprisingly, I felt no anger towards him. He was just Man. Man in his basic, rudimentary state, easily moved by powerful emotions like love,…

— Helon Habila

“His senseless disdain was beyond me. I have met only a few men like him in my life, and they rattle my soul. They…

— Manoucher Farmanfarmaian

He had married (as most young men did) because he had met a perfectly charming girl at the moment when a series of rather…

— Edith Wharton

When he wanted, he could radiate charm and sincerity, but I often wonder in these later days if anything about him was as it…

— Frank Herbert

“Shortly Tom came upon the juvenile pariah of the village, Huckleberry Finn, son of the town drunkard. Huckleberry was cordially hated and dreaded by…

— Mark Twain