Crime Quote by Sabrina Jeffries

“Learning that he was a professional swindler should have made her shame a hundred times worse. Instead, it took the sting out of it.…

— Rose Lerner

“There is a sense, I think, in which the swindler and the swindled deserve each other. It is a kind of mutual humiliation society.”

— Teju Cole

“Without knowing it the girl was arguing on the side of the world's expert criminologists, who hold that to destroy an offender cannot benefit…

— L. Frank Baum

“She'd come to believe that the only real crime was getting caught.”

— Kristen Painter

“Somehow the sting of guilt was always more acute when there was a risk that she might get caught.”

— Frances Hardinge

“She wondered if she was doomed to be one of those people who spend their lives trying things. She had tried being in a…

— David Nicholls

“The more you love her, the crazier you get. My love was great. My crimes were greater.”

— Holly Black

“The thief’s widow had turned him, before she married him, into a thief of a stupid and terrible kind, because she had made him…

— Salman Rushdie

“Here was the world-famous novelist with her penchant for detail; yet, in her observations of a prostitute with a customer, she had failed to…

— John Irving

“Perhaps robbing someone of his or her story is the greatest betrayal of all.”

— Anna Fels

“Either the woman was incredibly malleable and naive—or she may have been open to enticement, no matter what she told the authorities. Hers is…

— Gaiutra Bahadur

“He felt at once betrayed and betrayer, deceived and deceiver. He was a criminal forced into crime, an unwilling whore.”

— Peter Benchley