Absent Quote by Ted Dekker

He lacked tenderness; he was rude; and he had more than a streak of cruelty in him; he was a thief and a liar.…

— Daphne du Maurier

Lacey had this huge chip on his shoulder. He walked into the room thinking that the people didn't welcome him and didn't like him.…

— Sydney Schanberg

“Like every human being, Alvin was in some measure a machine, his actions predetermined by his inheritance. That did not alter his need for…

— Arthur C. Clarke

he used to think that he wanted to be good, he wanted to be kind, he wanted to be brave and wise, but it…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“He talked to people and fooled them into liking him, trusting him. He talked to them while he was killing them, torturing and turning…

— Markus Zusak

“And yet, even while they baffled him, they aroused within his heart a feeling he had never known before. When- which was not often,…

— Arthur C. Clarke

But what Davenport had been born into had taken so much from her, leaving her with just the wickedest and the worst. Her father…

— Brenna Yovanoff

“Because the minister's wife refused to leave the minister, and because my mother required a worshipful companion, she was forced to break up with…

— Augusten Burroughs

The sense that in his mother’s view, he had let down his family just by being who he was… was a failure of acceptance…

— J.R. Ward

The sense that in his mother's view, he had let down his family just by being who he was... was a failure of acceptance…

— J.R. Ward

He succeeded in being considered totally uninteresting. People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.

— Patrick Süskind

“If he needed an answer about how much he'd changed, that provided it. He didn't want Fatima Hynes or any other nameless female with…

— Suzanne Enoch