Quote by Nicole Ciacchella

“She was a good girl, he said to himself. He was thinking without quite phrasing it that no other person had ever understood him…

— Norman Mailer

“It was good for her though, to submit to things that weren’t for her pleasure, but his.”

— Annabel Joseph

“I might have asked, figured her out, led her to open up. I was good at that. But I didn't inquire, a punishment. I…

— Susanna Sonnenberg

“She wondered if it counted as being good if you did the good thing for purely selfish reasons. Probably not, but who cared. What…

— Emily Gould

“I felt the basic insincerity of what she had said. It made me uneasy, as though the whole evening had been a trick of…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“She distrusted people who were happy all the time. It simply wasn’t necessary.”

— Tim Ellis

“She had to figure out how to feel good about herself apart from what a man thought of her.”

— Marybeth Mayhew Whalen

“Sometimes, good intentions couldn't do a thing except make you feel less alone, and sometimes that was enough.”

— Riley Redgate

“The better she understood the depths of his feelings, the more confident she would be. He wanted her confident.”

— Gena Showalter

“The situation wasn’t ideal. But it was what she had to work with, so she would work with it. She was a tough one,”

— Lev Grossman

“It's too good, she is. She wants to find the good in others, and sometimes her way of finding that is to trust them,…

— Claire Keegan

“After all, she herself had done the very worst thing imaginable. And she was a good person. Wasn’t she?”

— Chris Pavone