First time Quote by Megan Whalen Turner

“He tried to avoid these thoughts. He had to stand on guard against his own feeling—as if some part of him had become a…

— Ayn Rand

I can see his pain, see it in the way he runs his fingers through his hair, over and over, and I understand what…

— Libba Bray

Because he had nothing to hide, he did perhaps appear to have forfeited a little of his strength. But that is the irony of…

— Patrick White

It made him feel invisible—not that he wanted to feel anything else.

— Margaret Atwood

He wanted pain, I saw that in him, and what a man wants he will often manage to find.

— Alice Hoffman

He wanted this someone to see how much he hurt.

— Jonathan Franzen

He felt like somebody had taken the lid off life and let him see the works.

— Dashiell Hammett

But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

He was powerless because he had no precise desire, and this tortured him because he was vainly seeking something to desire. He could not…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“His thoughts were clearly still shoving him further away, toward some ultimate dark drama that he might or might not have actually lived through…

— Walter Kirn

Something in him was broken, and through that break spilled a blind cruelty, a need to hurt and to push away

— Cassandra Clare

“And into its bland merciless face what did he have to show as his proof that he deserved to live? - Nothing but that…

— Rafael Yglesias