Crime Quote by Ottessa Moshfegh

“I never considered disobeying an order or even a request from Daddy. I loved and admired him, and one of my preeminent goals in…

— Jimmy Carter

“He realised what a horrible mistake, crime even, he had been guilty of in demanding such a barbaric thing as a girl’s hand.”

— Patricia Highsmith

“Having a daughter whose company he actually enjoyed was one of his favorite accomplishments.”

— Emma Straub

“My horror at his crimes was lost in my admiration at his skill.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Every night after dinner he honed this skill of enduring a dull thing that brought a parent pleasure. It seemed to him a lifesaving…

— Jonathan Franzen

“My life in crime began with a good deed.”

— Joanna Campbell Slan

“I know. I know. Me? Dutiful daughter? All-round good girl? Owner of an up-and-coming event-planning company? Killer of plants and unwed at thirty? Pulling…

— Sara Desai

“Given his own amorality, he could quite easily have come to terms with her criminal tendencies, but he could never, being the snob that…

— Elizabeth Palmer

“It’s funny the ways we try to punish ourselves when we feel we’ve committed some crime.”

— Deb Caletti

“As a child he had often thought of killing himself, but those were sentimental reveries born a wish to punish his father and mother…

— Truman Capote

“A kid is a terrible thing to be, in charge of nothing.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“It had been a marvelous childhood. Damn near perfect. If he was not leading the life he'd anticipated, if he sometimes lay in bed…

— Julia Quinn