Quote by Sophie Oak

“Maybe we're mad at someone else and we want to punish him by punishing ourselves.”

— Jocelyn Soriano

“Think about it, but don't think too much. If you think too much you'll end up doing nothing.”

— Dalia Sofer

“I hate that it sounds like a punishment.”

— Stephanie Perkins

“You think that's going to exonerate you?”

— Anthony Doerr

“Do I feel I should be punished? Yes. Why else would I have given myself bangs?”

— Jennifer Niven

“I think people feel a kind of need for punishment when they can no longer accept their own actions.”

— Jo Nesbø

“I’m not punishing you.’ ‘No?’ ‘No. You’d know if I was. Trust me.”

— Lindsay J. Pryor

“I seem at once cursed to say precisely what I'm thinking to him and unable to tell what he thinks about it.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“Wrong way to think about it. Don't try to figure it out all at once.”

— Jed Rubenfeld

“What do you want?” I grumbled, not really sure if I was imagining his voice or not. “I’m not a figment of your imagination.”…

— D.T. Dyllin

“It was a punishing whim on my part, a nasty, selfish twist of the knife.”

— Gillian Flynn

“Sometimes, thinking can be a bad thing.”

— Nikki Rae