Quote by Portia de Rossi

“She still looked furious, but now she also looked a little intimidated. Not intimidated enough, but a little.”

— Marissa Meyer

“But easier, she reminded herself, was not the same as better.”

— Frances Hardinge

“felt interested in a man who seemed more exaggeratedly reserved than myself.”

— Emily Brontë

“I didn't want to be such a good girl anymore. I wanted people to fear messing with me. ... I wanted to be intimidating.…

— Emily P. Freeman

“I should've been better. But sometimes all you can really stand to do is think about yourself. Sometimes it's the only way to cope.…

— Emma Mills

“(Or maybe she was just more afraid of being like everyone else.)”

— Rainbow Rowell

“He had a certain almost obsequious charm. He liked talking about himself, and did not ask many questions of her. She noticed the imbalance…

— Lydia Davis

“What I mean to say is that I was not fundamentally unattractive. I was just invisible.”

— Ottessa Moshfegh

“You find yourself, but sometimes when you do you're not the same, you're different all you think is that you should have been more…

— Avalenna Harding

“More. I wasn't sure how i felt about more. Less, I could handled less. Less would've been good.”

— Kami Garcia

“I guess that if you're afraid of a little opposition, then you're not the person who you portrayed yourself to be.”

— Anthony T. Hincks

“Identifying, they said, was trying to see how I was like the people I was with. Comparing, they told me, was looking for differences,…

— Alcoholics Anonymous