Shame Quote by Sondra Allan Carr

“Her shame and fierceness were blended.”

— John Steinbeck

“Now and then she looked harassed by her own potential, like certain young people, and you might notice then the way a stillness spread…

— Nic Pizzolatto

“It was skin, she decided. Only skin. And it had no power to add or subtract or otherwise alter her fundamental understanding of her…

— Leonard Pitts Jr

“Modesty was hardly a priority in her mind until now. Now she had been cast from Hell and again knew shame.”

— Thomm Quackenbush

“she had shed her old skin that was raw and she has transformed into a person so different from the general. She was bold,…

— Kavipriya Moorthy

“With him, she was at ease; her skin felt as though it was her right size.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“The honesty of her plain skin was striking without foundation.”

— Abby Slovin

“She had perfect skin, so free of blotches or wrinkles, her face so perfect and character-free she could have just popped out of the…

— Gillian Flynn

“She looked like a grown-up, a calm, controlled grown-up, and she was glad for that one mercy. No one would be able to judge…

— Carol Oates

“Her only shame was that she felt none.”

— Nicholas Evans

“She understood at least as well as I did what corruption and pitiless cruelty might be hidden behind the masks that some people wore.”

— Dean Koontz