Person Quote by Susan Richards Shreve

“In the end, the only thing, the only person, you could ever count on was yourself.”

— Jennifer Estep

“Lists, she thought, are the stories of our lives; they give a picture of who we are and what we do every day.”

— Alexander McCall Smith

“most of all, she’d learned that she had to rely on herself. Certainly her father and her sister couldn’t be counted on.”

— Kristin Hannah

“In the last few months, she'd had a lot of time to consider the state of mankind, and she'd decided that people actually had…

— Alice Hoffman

“so at least she could feel less singled out, less repulsed by herself, less like a spot on the world that should have been…

— Krista Ritchie

“The only thing that counted to her was her own opinion of herself. If that became smirched or spoiled there would be nothing left.…

— Josephine Tey

“She always camouflaged herself as a crowd. I've never been lonely, she said, but sometimes it's hard to think above the noise.”

— Brian Andreas

“She knew a cutting, incisive, withering and above all a self-evident answer existed. It was just that, to her extreme annoyance, she couldn't quite…

— Terry Pratchett

“She wasn’t sure if she fully believed the words her therapist had given her to keep in her arsenal, but they helped. And one…

— Alisha Rai

“People, she thought, could be unbelievably stupid.”

— J.D. Robb

“She feared so many things. Too many to want to count them. Some she would not even want to try to justify. But his…

— Marilyn Brant

“She discarded whole chunks of life that obsessed other people. She didn't torture people she loved, nor did she hunger for them. She kept…

— Ann Brashares